Giovanni Capalbo

Alleluja (2019)

Montedoro (2016)

A middle aged American woman unexpectedly discovers her true origin after her parents died. Deeply moved, in the midst of an identity crisis, she decides to travel, hoping to find her birth mother whom she hads never known. She goes to a small and remote p ...

Ustica: The Missing Paper (2016)

On the evening of June 27, 1980, a DC9 of the private airline Itavia disappeared from radar screens without sending any emergency signal. The aircraft, stabilized in cruise at 7.600 meters above sea level, sank into the Tyrrhenian Trench, between Ponza and ...

Lords of London (2014)

Tony is a notorious gangster with a big problem. He has woken up in an abandoned farmhouse, with blood on his shirt, and no memory of how he got there. He stumbles into a small town and discovers he's in an Italian village that seems to be lost in time. ...

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 ...

We Believed (2010)

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disill ...

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2010)

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the ...

Polvere (2009)

Carnera: The Walking Mountain (2008)

The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob. ...

Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente (2008)

The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films! ...

No way out - A broken love (2007)

After seven difficult years, Matteo Dell Torre withdraws his campaign from the crisis. But because of the work, he rarely sees with his wife, with children. When the case turned out to be imposed, the police accuse Matteo of murder and find 30 million of b ...

The Counting House (2007)

Four employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing rights with the sullen, paranoid islanders who have good reason to be afraid. Soon after the arrival of the four, a mysterious force the islanders thought was c ...

What Is Love? (2006)

A young man, Andrea, from the bourgeoisie of Lugano, with power in high finance, falls in love with a beautiful pianist, Antonia. Antonia leaves his fabulous career for the love she feels for him. Soon the beautiful women leads him in a growing state of je ...

Antonio, guerriero di Dio (2006)

The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by happenstance. He spends m ...

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2005)

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 Passion of the Christ (2004)

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. ...

Tafanos: L'Inizio (2002)

A group of friends are plagued by recurring nightmares set in the Middle Ages. In an attempt to bring peace to their nights, they decide to undergo a psychic seance. They soon find themselves in an unlikely Middle Ages, battling a swarm of accidentally rel ...

Knights Of The Quest (2001)

In 1271, the Seventh Crusade has failed. During their retreat, the troops transport the remains of King Louis IX, the Holy King, across the peninsula. A world has ended, and five young people with nothing in common set out to find the location of the Holy ...

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. ...

No Deposit, No Return (1999)

Francesco Cesena, a middle-aged policeman, while carrying out a routine operation, is involved in a firefight in which his colleague loses his life. Cesena, wounded, shoots and kills the convict and his wife. About a year later two young men, Fabrizio and ...

The Seventh Room (1996)

An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp. ...

Angeli a sud (1992)

In Calabria in the seventies, Max leads a group of his friends as they set up a private television network "TV Sila". ...

Lucania (2019)

An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesses the fatal clash between two fathers. ...