Francesco Paolantoni

Dobbiamo stare vicini (2024)

Amleto è mio fratello (2023)

The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins (2021)

18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power a ...

La Rosa Blu (2021)

A fairy tale about two brothers and their little sister with Down syndrome, reminding us that there is no such thing as "different. ...

La Reliquia (2020)

Una festa esagerata (2018)

Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk. ...

Vengo anch'io (2018)

Wacky Heroes (2017)

Hoping to secure a better future for their thirteen-year-old sister Chiara, Massimo and Fabrizio, two penniless brothers with no prospects, invent an unusual business. Armed with masks and microcameras, they publicly demolish the identities of various neig ...

Gomorroide (2017)

The Camorra is on its knees and the credit goes to Gomorroide, an unexpectedly successful television series that mocks the ruthless criminal organization. Thanks to the TV series, people are less afraid of bosses and the underworld and have found the coura ...

A Napoli non piove mai (2015)

Let's Go to the Country (2014)

Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino's home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice. ...

La crociata dei buffoni - The last summer (2014)

Luigi and Vincenzo (2013)

Today, a special day for Luigi and Vincenzo, years of a love story in clandestine, for shame, fear, thinking do not have rights, no marriage, no family, neither walking hand in hand.... But this day, the same of the Napoli gay pride day, something changes. ...

South of New York (2010)

Jenny is a former Broadway star looking to revive her career one last time. When her rich uncle dies she leaves New York and goes to the south of Italy to claim her inheritance, only to find out that all that's left are debts and a worthless self-portrait. ...

Totò Sapore and the Magical Story of Pizza (2003)

Naples, 18th century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food, always upsetting Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius. ...

Il segreto del successo (2003)

Bimba (2002)

Bimba, a superficial showgirl, full of herself and lacking in talent, discovers she is a clone. More angry about the template chosen for her than the experiment itself—an American actress who was famous for a few months and then forgotten—she decides t ...

Liberate i pesci! (2000)

Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta. ...

Tutti gli uomini del deficiente (1999)

Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune. ...

The Wasteland (1999)

After having lived a few years in the USA as a stuntman, Francesco returns to his home town for the funeral of his elderly parents. ...

Kisses and Hugs (1999)

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to sa ...

Intolerance (1996)

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity. ...

Hotel Paura (1996)

Troubling Love (1995)

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that shaped ...

Per non dimenticare (1992)

Fatalità (1991)

Blues metropolitano (1985)

Tony is a young Neapolitan musician. He has a lot of problems and a past with drugs, but also with women. He is engaged to Susy, but he betrays her with a university professor, who has an invalid husband, but also with other young aspiring singers, who try ...