Giovanni Pellegrino

Il contrabbandiere (2024)

A struggling Puglian restaurateur, hit by war-driven price hikes, persuades friends to revive decades-old cigarette smuggling, using the illicit trade as a metaphor to expose the political, cultural, and environmental abandonment of the Brindisi-Taranto re ...

Ugly Nasty People (2017)

Four physically disabled lowlifes plot the perfect heist, but things go south when each reveals an agenda of their own. ...

Aspromonte (2012)

Ma l'amore... sì! (2006)

Grandfather Alcide is given a surprise party by his many relatives. He, however, dies of a heart attack. The dearly departed turns out to have been a hardened saver and leaves an astonishing amount of money to his two sons, Alfredo and Nunzio, who suddenly ...

L'amore di Màrja (2004)

In the '70s, young Màrja leads a hippie lifestyle in Finland. During a peace march, she meets Fortunato, a young Sicilian, and falls in love with him. They marry and start a family, happily raising two daughters. However, times become hard and Fortunato s ...

Terrarossa (2001)

Terrarossa is a 2001 film directed by Giorgio Molteni. The film is based on the novel La teda (1957) by the Calabrian writer Saverio Strati. ...

Albania Blues (2001)

I fetentoni (1999)

The film is set in Reggio Calabria in the late eighties, when bribes are everywhere and the power of the city is in the hands of two bosses: Saro Lodato and Cocò Raffati. ...

A caro prezzo (1999)

Fireworks (1997)

Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting the significant relationships he had with four women. ...

The Cyclone (1996)

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipitous arrival of five gorgeous Spanish flamenco dancers. ...

Camerieri (1995)

Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. ...

Belle al bar (1994)

During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very charming girl. ...

Da do da (1994)

Dear Goddamned Friends (1994)

In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black American soldier and a girl resisting marriage, as they navigate the challenges of their war-torn world. ...

Donne con le gonne (1991)

Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband. ...

Zitti e mosca (1991)

In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine. ...

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 ...

Benvenuti in casa Gori (1990)

The film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lunch, Unexpected Pregnancy, The Videotape and Epilogue. ...

Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)

Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent withou ...

Go in Peace (2019)

Three wives, very devoted to their patron San Girolamo, when they learn that their church will be closed and the saint's statue transferred to a museum near Naples decides to steal it. But they will have a surprise... ...