Lucio Patané

Il ministero dell’amore (2026)

The Great Ambition (2024)

Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escap ...

Sicilian Letters (2024)

Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal con ...

A Conspiracy Man (2022)

In a lower-class neighborhood in Rome, there is a barber who believes in conspiracy theories. He is the laughing stock of his family but also at work. Nobody takes him seriously until he gets arrested by the police. ...

Marilyn's Eyes (2021)

Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions. ...

Miss Marx (2020)

In her public persona, Eleanor "Tussy" Marx was a translator, actress, a children's rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father's work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including b ...

Rome in Love (2019)

An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome. Paired with an American journalist writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city. ...

Nico, 1988 (2017)

Approaching age 50, singer/songwriter Nico leads a solitary existence, far from her days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for the Velvet Underground in the 1960s. Her life and career on the fringes, Nico's new manager convinces her to hit the ...

Unique Brothers (2014)

A funny story about two brothers, Pietro and Francesco, and what happens with them and their families after Petro loses his memory. ...

Stay Away from Me (2013)

Jacopo has a serious problem. He may be a brilliant marriage guidance counsellor, but he can never manage to have a steady relationship for more than two weeks. And for good reason: since he was very young, Jacopo has been cursed and brought bad luck to ev ...

Us in the U.S. (2013)

Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father. They'll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father's favorite lake in Arizo ...

A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012)

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit. ...

Fleeting Love (2008)

Solo, an everyman who seemingly brings misfortune upon other people's relationships, faces his own fear of love. ...

I Want You (2007)

A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl. ...

Pas de Deux: The Story of a Success (2005)

Beni is an Albanian who came clandestinely to Italy with the mirage of a career as a dancer. He will find himself the victim of a scam, performing in second-rate shows and almost a prisoner of an organization bordering on legality. He will overcome a thous ...

Eccomi qua (2003)

Matteo is an ordinary young man muddling through odd jobs, friendships, nights at the bar, and struggles with money, identity, and his parents. When his girlfriend, Stefania, becomes pregnant, they mutually decide not to keep the baby and to part ways. Thr ...

Un Aldo qualunque (2002)

A comedy with two italian comic actors ...

Ribelli per caso (2000)

My Friends Act II (1982)

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, ...