Gianluca Favilla

Submission of a Woman (1992)

Giallo tinged home invasion movie full of tension. Luisa's home is invaded one night by a crazed admirer who thinks he has the right to take sexual advantage of her because of her occupation as a nude model. Directed by experienced film editor Alessandro L ...

The Raffle (1991)

Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix. ...

The Invisible Wall (1991)

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover ...

A Simple Story (1991)

After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs. ...

A Paradise Without Billiards (1991)

An Italian man emigrates to Sweden after getting tempted by the picture painted by his friend's letters but finds the reality quite different. ...

Breath of Life (1990)

Set in Italy in 1946 just after World War 2, the film explores the lives and emotions of a group of patients who are terminally ill and confined to an isolated sanatorium. ...

Il bambino e il poliziotto (1989)

Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out o ...

Time to Kill (1989)

During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest army hospital, losing his sanity in the process. ...

Mary Forever (1989)

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encou ...

Dear Gorbachev (1988)

Russia, 1937. Nicolai Bukharin and his wife Anna Mikhailovna Larina are living through a tragedy in their apartment. The husband fears that he will be arrested for political reasons and asks his wife to memorize a denunciation document so that he can destr ...

Compagni di scuola (1988)

A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost. ...

The Last Minute (1987)

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo. ...

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Zampa del Gatto (1987)

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. ...

La Cage aux Folles 3 (1985)

Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. But the catch is that Albin must marry (a woman) and produce a heir within a year or the whole ...

Nucleo Zero (1984)

Another Time, Another Place (1983)

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in lov ...

Di padre in figlio (1982)