Mario Porfito

Bang Bank - L'occasione fa l'uomo morto (2024)

C'è di nuovo la valigia sul letto (2023)

Caina (2020)

The eponymous protagonist of the film is a former assassin. She is a xenophobic and violent person, her life has always been filled with hate towards those who don't share the same physical or cultural features; chiefly immigrants and muslims. Her job duri ...

San Valentino Stories (2018)

A practicing Catholic falls in love with a devout Buddhist. A minor attends a pastry-making course in prison and discovers that love can be found behind bars. Two long-time friends celebrate an unusual Valentine's Day, thinking about the girlfriends who ha ...

Gramigna (2017)

Camminando nel cielo (2015)

The world of young people and the problem of disability... ...

Last Tango (2015)

Alberto Tango is the owner of a small and shabby detective agency in the area close to Naples. His collaborator is Corrado, naive boy with some problems of mental stability. Tango lives by his tricks, often at the limit of legality, to fill the huge debt t ...

Impepata di nozze (2012)

Il sogno nel casello (2009)

All Human Rights for All (2008)

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration. ...

Ci sta un francese, un inglese e un napoletano (2008)

Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo (2006)

When a love story ends and ones does not know how to say goodbye, here comes the classic excuse: "I'm leaving you because I love you too much." With this exact sentence Daniela says goodbye to Mariano and disappears from his life. His friends try to help h ...

A World of Love (2003)

The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then-schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of soliciting three underage boys. ...

Il viaggio della sposa (1997)

17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite ...

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993)

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse. ...

Ciao, Professore! (1992)

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples ...

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his las ...

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) (1986)

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this ...

Blues metropolitano (1985)

Tony is a young Neapolitan musician. He has a lot of problems and a past with drugs, but also with women. He is engaged to Susy, but he betrays her with a university professor, who has an invalid husband, but also with other young aspiring singers, who try ...