Luciano Curreli

Through the Waves (2022)

Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as well as the cargo they carry. That journey becomes an opportunity to discuss their abruptly interrupted relationship. Suspended between a past that made them h ...

The Lamb (2020)

Anita is sixteen and she's facing a difficult situation: her mother died of leukemia and now Jacopo, her father, is also sick: his need for a bone-marrow transplant is increasingly urgent, but the average waiting period for a donor is many months. Anita is ...

Io sono Tempesta (2018)

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter. ...

Senza lasciare traccia (2016)

Happy Days Motel (2013)

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

The Island of the Fallen Angel (2012)

In 1924, a young police commissioner is relocated to a small island near Sicily. Adaptation of Carlo Lucarelli's novel of the same name, directed by Lucarelli himself in his directorial debut, which went unreleased after its lukewarm premiere at the Rome F ...

Pretty Butterflies (2012)

3 August, Cagliari: a poor neighborhood. At three in the morning eleven-year-old Cate is woken by the screams of her eccentric neighbor. Cate wants to run away from that apartment, from her numerous and problematic siblings and her tyrannical father. Only ...

Angel of Evil (2010)

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld's most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country's most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested ...

Beket (2009)

Freak and Jajà, like Vladimir and Estragon, are in a no man's land, with no date or time. Earth is no longer inhabited by humans but a few strange survivors who appear from time to time. The two protagonists, strangers to each other, meet at a bus stop in ...

Dentro La Città (2004)

Superintendent Chessari is sent to run a small police station on the outskirts of Rome - a temporary posting in a difficult area, with not much backing and very few staff. His deputy, Lorenzo Corsi, is a youngster just out of the Academy, full of enthusias ...

Uno Bianca (2001)

Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extorti ...

La banda (2001)

Almost Blue (2000)

A detective suspects an unreported serial killer is preying on the population of a college town, luring in his victims through online video chats and assuming their identity after the murder. ...

Regina Coeli (2000)

"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in his private life. The jail director entrusts her with the task to try re-educating Graziano, a young Sardi ...

Girotondo: Giro Attorno al Mondo (1999)

Angelo is an orphan who grew up with a nomad woman. He reacts to his pain over the death of his best friend for overdose, thanks to the encounter with Serena. She survives being a prostitute, but she has not lost hope. Angelo moves along an axis of charact ...

L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci (1995)

This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outlandish situation to the next. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man tags along to the party his frie ...

Verso sud (1992)

In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals effort to build a sor ...

18 anni tra una settimana (1991)

Rosso di sera (1989)

Alex is separated and has a young daughter, Elo. After a youth studded with failures at university and in political commitment, he leads a mediocre existence alongside Margit, his new partner, and his friends Pais and Capace. Margit invites Alex to Giangi' ...