Lino Musella

Feeling Better (2025)

A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way to live his life, safe from everything and everyone, without responsibilities and problems of any kind. I ...

Dadapolis - Neapolitan Kaleidoscope (2024)

Naples told, through the centuries, in an anthology: Dadapolis by Fabrizia Ramondino and Andreas Friedrich Müller. A city always full of ferment, culture but also contradictions. In the film, however, today's city is told through the eyes of about sixty a ...

Arsa (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 ...

Ferrari (2023)

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledge ...

Superluna (2023)

The film tells, through the gaze of a child, the life of the survivors of the Amatrice earthquake who live in a tent city, in what could be called a new community. ...

Magic Naples (2022)

Considered the heart of the south of Italy, Naples has enraptured its inhabitants and visitors for generations. In the fascinating documentary MAGIC NAPLES, actor/director Marco D'Amore (Gomorrah) sets out to uncover why his beloved Naples is said to be ma ...

Princess (2022)

Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which to find ...

The Bohemian (2022)

The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into t ...

Il pataffio (2022)

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren't willing to be ruled. ...

The Shadow of the Day (2022)

In 1938 Italy, after Jews are banned from public life, fascist-abiding restaurateur Luciano nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules. Everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, begins working at his business. ...

The Hand of God (2021)

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona. ...

The Hidden Child (2021)

Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele open ...

Destinata coniugi Lo Giglio (2021)

The Lo Giglio couple receive a visit from a man who introduces himself as an agent of the Camorra. He has come to collect the money needed to keep their son Damiano in hiding, now more than 18 years away from home. The scene repeats itself every four to fi ...

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 ...

Tigers (2021)

Super-talented footballing prodigy Martin is bought by top club Inter Milan, aged just 16. It's the chance of a lifetime – but at what price? ...

The Bad Poet (2021)

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. ...

Lei mi parla ancora (2021)

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story. ...

Fuori dai teatri (2021)

The Beast (2020)

To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself. ...

The Finch Thief (2020)

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected. ...

You Came Back (2020)

Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco's life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived until the t ...

Bad Tales (2020)

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it's an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadi ...

Loro (2018)

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tyc ...

Until the End (2018)

A shot breaks the silence of the night, four men flee from the scene of the crime. Umberto "Yes and No", the infallible killer of the Caputo clan, has just killed the wrong man. Now he will have to account to the boss. Unfortunately, the victim is the neph ...

The Stuff of Dreams (2016)

Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get ...

Perez. (2014)

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso's son, Perez has to cut through the moral ...

Happy Days Motel (2013)

By chance some surreal characters arrive at the Happy Days Motel taking their grotesque stories. ...