Iaia Forte

Marko Polo (2024)

High Stakes - A Night In The Ward (2024)

It's Ferragosto, Italy's mid-August holiday, in a practically deserted hospital in Naples. Two nurses, Angelo and Salvatore, are on shift when a desperately ill patient is wheeled in. With his seasoned eye, Angelo knows at once that Mr. Caputo won't last t ...

Le seduzioni (2024)

Corpo unico (2023)

In a dystopian present/future, women have become extinct. It is a world of male hunters, where even the memory of the femicide they committed is punished. The three male protagonists are locked up in a closed space because they are infected by the memory. ...

Born for You (2023)

Alba has Down's Syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca: a Catholic — and gay — single man. ...

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis (2023)

The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned the g ...

The Price of Family (2022)

Heartbroken that their children no longer want to spend time with them, two parents fake an inheritance to bring the family together for Christmas. ...

The King of Laughter (2021)

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his ...

La mucca nel cielo (2020)

5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime hench ...

DolceRoma (2019)

Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chan ...

La prima pietra (2018)

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. ...

Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World (2017)

Claudia and Flavio were once passionately in love, but all of that is over. Now, in their fifties, they must venture anew into the world of love and dating once more but for Claudia confronting the end and accepting a new beginning isn't so easy. Claudia i ...

I Killed Napoleon (2015)

In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble. ...

Leopardi (2014)

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry. ...

Mafia & Red Tomatoes (2014)

In Puglia, a cooperative wants to farm the land confiscated from a Mafioso, as it is legally entitled to do. But things are moving slowly. So the members of the cooperative turn to Filippo, who belongs to an anti-mafia organisation with its headquarters in ...

The show MAS go on (2014)

The artist Rä di Martino celebrates MAS, Rome's historic "people's warehouses," with a documentary that blurs the lines between reality and fiction. ...

Sul vulcano (2014)

Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist who paints using the volcano's ashes, and Yole, a neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is a ...

La vita oscena (2014)

The tragic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his "obscene life". ...

The Great Beauty (2013)

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. ...

Honey (2013)

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise. ...

The Face Of Another (2013)

Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a ter ...

Se sei così, ti dico sì (2011)

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems that fame is definitively confined to the past, Piero recei ...

Notizie degli scavi (2010)

Armandino e il Madre (2010)

An italian short comedy ...

Beautiful People (2009)

Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking ...

Bets & Wedding Dresses (2009)

Franco Campanella, a former postal worker earning under €1,000 monthly, is devoted to his family but addicted to gambling. On his daughter Luisa's wedding eve, he promises to save for expenses but, after being denied a loan, gambles away tens of thousand ...

No Problem (2008)

For Arturo, a forty-year-old actor, success has finally arrived: the TV series in which he plays a separated father is doing quite well. Unexpectedly, however, comes the flipside of his popularity: Mirko, a boy who recently lost his father, has replaced hi ...

The Seed Of Discord (2008)

Mario and Veronica, a married couple with no children, are both very committed to their careers, which are booming. He's a sales representative for a fertilizer company, while she inherited a boutique from her mother that she wants to renovate and transfor ...

Una notte (2008)

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Night Bus (2007)

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the Presi ...

Trance (2006)

Sonia, a girl from St. Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in Western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will ...

Amatemi (2005)

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers. ...

Lei (2002)

Paz! (2002)

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism. ...

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 ...

Chimera (2001)

The true natures of love, commitment, and reality are called into question in this offbeat drama. One night in bed, Tomas, a magician, begins telling a story to his wife Desirè about Emma and Sal, a married couple whose love life has gone stale. In order ...

Three Wives (2001)

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to Argentina in search of their spouses. ...

La vita altrui (2000)

The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined ...

Appassionate (1999)

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he l ...

Abbiamo solo fatto l'amore (1998)

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. ...

Rehearsals For War (1998)

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast me ...

Oltremare - Non è l'America (1998)

The Vesuvians (1997)

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary. ...

Nitrate Base (1997)

This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic ...

Luna e l'altra (1996)

Luna is an endearingly prudish teacher in Milan, who lives with her grumpy father. Often teased by students and co-workers alike, her only ally is the janitor, Angelo, who harbors a secret crush on Luna. When a carnival comes to town, Luna meets a man who ...

Hotel Paura (1996)

Bits & Pieces (1996)

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you've never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love. ...

Black Holes (1995)

The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we can follow among fantasy, mythology and reality the absurd life of the protagonists. ...

Little Horrors (1994)

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tow ...

Libera (1993)

Three episodes. In the first, Aurora lives in a luxurious apartment. Among some workers called to her house, she recognizes an old lover, who returns to courting her, but then empties her house. In the second, a boy released from reform school discovers th ...

Razor (1993)

Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato. ...

Baby Gang (1992)

Ladri di futuro (1992)

Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dreams, a child all of their own, the hope of making it... The only thing they all have in common is the plac ...

Il mistero di Rosa (1991)

Viterbo, 1250. Rosa is a young girl who, after a night vision, begins to preach the words of St. Francis in the streets. One day she is sent into exile. Short in a medieval setting, between ancient villages and naturalistic locations, focused on power con ...

'o Re (1989)

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royal ...

The Grumpy (1986)

Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in he ...

Department Store (1986)

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store. ...

Separati in casa (1986)

The housing shortage means that two spouses have to continue living under the same roof despite the ongoing legal separation. Incidents and misunderstandings to no end, but the couple's son will take care of fixing everything. ...