Francesco Salvi

A Sudden Case of Christmas (2024)

An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it's August. The fact is they are breaking up, and once Claire realizes there's not goin ...

Una madre (2023)

Deva is a young girl marked by a painful choice: the abortion of a child. Her chance encounter with a child will give her back, through a journey of pain and love, that motherhood and that life that she seemed irremediably lost. ...

The Music of Silence (2017)

Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues. ...

St@lker (2014)

A recently separated man meets many girls online. ...

The sun inside (2012)

Yaguine and Fodé, two teenagers from African Guinea, wrote a letter to the "European Parlament great leaders", on behalf of all children and teens in Africa, where they ask for help with food, health and education. Ten years later, thirteen-year-old Thabo ...

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspi ...

Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven (2010)

One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided ...

Butterfly Zone - Il senso della farfalla (2010)

Vladimir and his friend Vercingetorix discover, in his dead father's wine cellar, a wine that has the power to conduct you to the afterlife, opening a doorway that leads in both directions. They begin exploring, but accidentally bring back to life a serial ...

Mal'aria (2009)

Pane e libertà (2009)

About comunist politician and labor union leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio. ...

Fuga con Marlene (2007)

A middle aged woman, recently released from prison robs a jewellery store and takes off with her long lost teenage son ...

Il giorno, la notte. Poi l'alba (2007)

The Torn Children (2006)

The true story of a mother in search of her children deported to Germany by the Nazis. ...

Bartali: The Iron Man (2006)

TV Miniseries (2 episodes) about life and rivalry of italian bikers Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi. ...

10th & Wolf (2006)

A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier. ...

Il bambino sull'acqua (2005)

Never Again as Before (2005)

Six schoolmates, after their final exams, decide to go together on holiday in the Dolomites, in what will probably be their last summer together before taking different ways. In that time they will learn to know themselves and others better, facing and try ...

Vite a perdere (2004)

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper's life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered acros ...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper's life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered acros ...

Una famiglia per caso (2003)

La rentrée (2001)

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 Odyssey (1991)

An Italian made for television musical comedy. ...

The Three Musketeers (1991)

Vogliamoci troppo bene (1989)

School of Thieves (1986)

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to ...

Joan Lui (1985)

In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism. ...

Attila Scourge of God (1982)

The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano ...

Stormtroopers II (1982)

A group of misfits form an army in an absurd war. ...

I'm Going to Live by Myself (1982)

Giacomino, tired of living at home with his parents, goes to his own place, but his neighbour, mr. Giuseppe, convinces himself to teach Giacomino about sex... ...

Fracchia The Human Beast (1981)

The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life! ...

Miracoloni (1981)

Men or Not Men (1980)

In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. ...

La baraonda (1980)

A young woman comes up to a womanizing man with a newborn baby he might be the father of. The background of the story is the 6-day bicycle indoor racing contest that used to take place in the Milano Palasport in the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s. ...

Hunted City (1979)

Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder corporation. Acampora (Mario Merola) is believed to be the prime suspect although he later proves to be one of the ...

Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima (1971)

Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her h ...

Vogliamoci troppo bene (1989)