Leonardo Scarpa

Old Rascals (2022)

What happens if a group of old people, who see their world collapse around them, instead of giving up decide to fight back in a brilliant and courageous way? ...

Welcome Venice (2021)

Two brothers are in conflict over the way the Venetian lagoon has been transformed, and the identity of the city and its residents has drastically changed. ...

Effetto domino (2019)

In a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned hotels into luxury residences for wealthy retired people. The lack of financial support from the banks and in ...

The Order of Things (2017)

An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity. ...

Soldato Semplice (2015)

In 1917, Gino Montanari, an elementary school teacher from Romagna, was forced by the principal of his school to volunteer for the First World War because of his libertine and anti-interventionist behavior. With the threat of being expelled from all school ...

Baciami piccina (2006)

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will. ...

Da zero a dieci (2002)

Twenty years after tragedy cut their graduation trip short, four friends return to that destination to finish what they started in 1980. However, as they find out, you can't repeat the past. ...

Ravanello pallido (2001)

Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma does not work in a peaceful atmosphere due to her particularly demanding employer and the harassment she suf ...

Holy Tongue (2000)

Two deadbeat friends see the opportunity of turning their fortune around after they come into possession of a precious stolen relic, the tongue of St. Anthony of Padua. ...

E allora mambo! (1999)

After receiving a large sum of money on his bank account by mistake, a small-town thirtysomething dissatisfied with his life sees the opportunity of turning back the clock to when things were good, reliving the carefree life of an university student in a b ...

L'estate di Davide (1998)

At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course ...

Consigli per gli acquisti (1997)

Vesna Goes Fast (1996)

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation. ...

Il toro (1994)

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money. ...

Here Comes the Storm (1993)

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. How ...

The Yes Man (1991)

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli. ...

La settimana della sfinge (1990)

Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman. ...

Palombella rossa (1989)

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a ...

Il prete bello (1989)

In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise. ...

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way. ...

Notte italiana (1987)

Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extractio ...

Graduation Party (1985)

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman. ...

Impiegati (1985)

Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy. ...

Blu cobalto (1985)

Docu-drama about cancer patients. An elderly farmer, believed to be mad by his family, dispenses wisdom to the other patients; an actress takes advantage of the hospitalization to shed light inside herself; a young doctor lives with schizophrenia his condi ...

The Three of Us (1984)

1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius. ...

Henry IV (1984)

Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie. ...

A School Trip (1983)

Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence. ...

Revenge of the Dead (1983)

A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead. ...

The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover. ...

Vesna Goes Fast (1996)

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation. ...