Luca Lionello

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 ...

Winter Lemons (2023)

Pietro and Eleonora, both avid gardeners, are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each other. The relationship that grows between them helps them to alleviate the pain each feels over something secret and very serious, a pain bo ...

Padre Pio (2023)

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are despe ...

Havana Kyrie (2019)

Against the fascinating backdrop of an ever marvellous Havana, Vittorio Arditi De Bellis, an aging Italian orchestra conductor once celebrated for specialising in Rossini's compositions, has fallen on hard times. However, some remember he delivered some of ...

Credo in un solo padre (2019)

Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is strong ...

Oltre La Nebbia - Il mistero di Rainer Merz (2018)

Youtopia (2018)

Eighteen-year-old Matilde lives with her grandmother and her mother Laura, a woman struggling with debt and failures. Completely disconnected from reality and attached to her online avatar, Matilde has found her own way to make money: stripping on webcam. ...

Ninna nanna (2017)

The Habit of Beauty (2017)

Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped loving one a ...

Infinitesimal calculus (2016)

Italian comedy ...

The Wait (2016)

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries ...

Reveries of a Solitary Walker (2015)

Three characters in three different ages are united by a dream of freedom and a small masterpiece of literature. A journey through the mysterious and timeless aspirations, sufferings and 'Reveries' of a poet, of a young student and a child lost in the wood ...

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 ...

Figli di Maam (2014)

Pasolini (2014)

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo ...

Bota (2014)

Bota (Albanian for "the world") is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here that the lives of the protagonists intersect in this compelling debut by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci. The directors sk ...

Roma criminale (2013)

Il ragioniere della mafia (2013)

Based on Donald Vergari Best Seller Book. In the middle of the crisis a man loses his job, starts gambling but cannot pay back his debts, the only way out is to accept an offer that he cannot refuse, his next job will be the bookkeeper of a new mafia organ ...

L'innocenza di Clara (2012)

Passannante (2011)

Ballkan Bazar (2011)

The film describes how Albanian graves were opened by Greeks and the contents moved and re-identified as being the bones of Greek soldiers from World War II. ...

Il console italiano (2011)

Dirty War (2010)

Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an ultimatum to the government: if they won't admit their role in hiding proof of the use of depleted uraniu ...

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 ...

The Red Shadows (2009)

An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change. ...

Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest (2008)

The service of Pope Paul VI presents tremendous challenges for humanity not only in the political, cultural and economic aspects of the world but also in the spiritual life of The Church. Pope Paul VI is the first Pope to be a Missionary Pope, to meet peop ...

Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo (2008)

Friedberg/Seltzer-like spoof about popular Italian teen romance movies of the aughts (such as Tre metri sopra il cielo, Come tu mi vuoi, Ho voglia di te, Notte prima degli esami, Melissa P., etc). ...

The Germans' Factory (2008)

Sandrine in the Rain (2008)

K. Il bandito (2008)

What is the English language plot outline for K. Il bandito (2008)? ...

Cover Boy (2008)

The story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future a ...

A Dream House Nightmare (2007)

A couple's pleasant new life in the country is threatened by the mysterious new next door neighbors. ...

Mary (2005)

The filming of a movie about Jesus' death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to ...

St. Peter (2005)

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles ...

Gli occhi dell'amore (2005)

Concorso di colpa (2005)

The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s. ...

Sangue - La morte non esiste (2005)

Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship. ...

Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion (2004)

See the inspirational documentary that captures the true stories of people who have been radically and miraculously changed by God as a result of having seen Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. In their own words, people give accounts of relations ...

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

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

The Italian (2002)

August 1991. As post-Communist Albania starts falling apart, Giorgio seeks refuge in Italy. ...

La banda (2001)

Operazione Odissea (2000)

Il delitto di Via Monte Parioli (1998)

In the city of Rome, Mirko Reggiani is not only a university student who can't happily graduate from the university but also an amateur and only one detective of MARLOV & CO. One day he meets a beautiful fair lady in a department store and falls immediatel ...

Il decisionista (1997)

Rome, 1990s. Gian Luigi, an unscrupulous financial administrator, finds himself embroiled in a journalistic investigation that aims to unmask shady monetary dealings. The recklessness of the fixer has the hours numbered. ...

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. ...

Paprika (1991)

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle and bustle of Rome, Paprika drifts from one brothel to another as she learn ...

Don Bosco (1988)

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. ...

Mak pigreco 100 (1987)

Sposerò Simon Le Bon (1986)

The story of a teenager whose biggest dream is to marry Simon Le Bon, singer of pop band Duran Duran. ...

Sangue - La morte non esiste (2005)

Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship. ...

DeGenerazione (1994)

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento. ...