Marcello Mazzarella

Duse (2025)

In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she ...

Eternal Visionary (2024)

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his relationship with the loved ones who have inspired his art. ...

Ten Minutes (2024)

Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new can change the course of a life. This is what Bianca will discover in the midst of an existential crisis. New meetings, the discovery of special bonds and liste ...

Giorni felici (2023)

Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is stricken by physical problems. Antonio, her former partner arrives to assist her and to rebuild their relationship. ...

Una preghiera per Giuda (2023)

The story of two rival bosses who, following the strategic release of one of the two, will unleash a whirlwind of events, inevitably overwhelming the members of their families. A fight for honor and revenge that will be thwarted by a stubborn and dutiful C ...

My Name Is Vendetta (2022)

After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge. ...

A Breath of Fresh Air (2022)

Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell t ...

The Treadmill (2022)

A tormented Emma, runs on her treadmill while doing online counseling, deluding herself to escape from her past. This balance will break when, after twenty-six years, her younger sister bursts in with an unsustainable request. ...

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018)

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure. ...

Walking to Paris (2018)

The 27-year-old sculptor Constantin Brancusi walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the twentieth century. ...

L'ami (2016)

The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226. ...

Il traduttore (2016)

Italy, third millennium. Andrei, a Romanian university student, ends up embroiled in an intrigue linked to the disappearance of a German antiquarian. ...

The Lithium Conspiracy (2015)

In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you ...

Biagio (2014)

It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the poorest immigrants of his city. His story starts in the mountains as a shepherd and continues on a long trip ...

La trattativa (2014)

What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who assassinated Falcone and Borsellino? Of the eternal coexistence between the Mafia and politics? Between th ...

Viktor (2014)

After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman. ...

Like the Wind (2013)

The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide ...

Des gens qui passent (2013)

Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious. ...

Convitto Falcone (2012)

Antonio is an journalist. A day his chief sends him to Palermo to write a piece about the school where studied Giovanni Falcone: a famous judge killed by the Mafia with his wife and colleague Francesca Morvillo. ...

La Strada Di Paolo (2011)

La scuola è finita (2010)

Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teac ...

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana (2010)

Baaria (2009)

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a l ...

Fort Apache Napoli (2009)

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985. ...

The Sicilian Girl (2008)

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first t ...

I Am Alive (2008)

A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected. ...

Made in Italy (2008)

French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, wonderful and ideal ...

Rosso Malpelo (2007)

A look at the difficult living conditions in two small mining villages in Bolivia as seen through the eyes of the young children who are forced to work there. ...

Fuga con Marlene (2007)

A middle aged woman, recently released from prison robs a jewellery store and takes off with her long lost teenage son ...

Night Bus (2007)

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the Presi ...

L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi (2007)

The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state. ...

Little Secrets (2006)

October 1962, the height of the Cuban missile crisis… Norbi, 12, lives in a small industrial town typical of southern Luxembourg. His father, very authoritarian, owns a bookstore-stationery that also serves as a store for religious items. That year, Norb ...

Melissa P. (2005)

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way. ...

The Passion of Joshua the Jew (2005)

Born in Spain in 1492 at the time all Jews and Muslims were ordered out of the country, Joshua (Leonardo Cesare Abude) is declared the next messiah by an elder. Eventually settling in Italy with his family, Joshua grows into a man and becomes fascinated wi ...

The Undesirables (2003)

USA, 1951. When a group of Italian immigrants suspected to have connections with the Mafia are sent back to Italy with the brand of "undesirable", a journalist decide to inquire about the story. ...

The Island (2003)

A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily. ...

What Are You Looking For (2002)

The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel. ...

Signs of Life (2001)

There were four friends. Now there are only three – one of them has just died in Sicily in a stupid road accident. Fifteen years earlier, Tomas, a young French filmmaker, had made the group the subject of a documentary. He had become their friend, their ...

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000)

A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. ...

Placido Rizzotto (2000)

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty ...

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ...

Time Regained (1999)

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life. ...

The Scent of the Night (1998)

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome. ...

Nirvana (1997)

Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "lif ...

Everybody's Fine (1990)

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. ...

Biagio (2014)

It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the poorest immigrants of his city. His story starts in the mountains as a shepherd and continues on a long trip ...