Maurizio Calvesi

The House of Looks (2025)

20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve "the forgetting", that unconscious state that is impenetrable to his existential angst and other fears. He's fleeing pai ...

The Illusion (2025)

1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out. Having landed in ...

Accattaroma (2024)

Vittorio, a man of about forty-five, a villager, sets out one morning from Via del Mandrione, on foot, to reach the Rio della Grana, the location of which he generally knows. He only knows that it is "over there", near the village of Gelsomino, "a thousand ...

Still Fabulous (2024)

Stuck in a dead-end career and on a string of terrible dates, the life of 30-something Maddalena is a total mess until one day, she meets an unlikely imaginary friend who comes to her in the form of real-life porn star Valentina Nappi. Her mission? To teac ...

Tina Anselmi - Una vita per la democrazia (2023)

A partisan at 16, a trade unionist defending female workers, the first female minister, chair of the commission of inquiry into the P2 Masonic lodge. Tina Anselmi's life was the story of our democracy. ...

Lust for Life (2023)

A couple in crisis after the birth of their first son rekindles their love during a trip to Norway. ...

Strangeness (2022)

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his event ...

Never Too Late For Love (2022)

Astolfo, a retired professor evicted from his apartment, decides to move into an old noble but decrepit palace, the last remnant of his family patrimony in a remote village of Abruzzo, where he hasn't been for decades. Soon enough, as a newcomer, he befrie ...

She's the One (2022)

What if you could answer any question and eliminate all doubts before making the most important decision of your life? What if, by some sort of magic, you could live your life pursuing your wildest and deepest desires? That's what's about to happen to Andr ...

I cassamortari (2022)

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black. ...

The Hidden Child (2021)

Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele open ...

I Am Santa Claus (2021)

Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn't want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams ...

The Talent of the Hornet (2020)

Dj Steph is a young radio deejay on the rise, who gained a lot of popularity on social media and every evening hosts a radio show with a large following, during which he receives calls from his fans. One evening, a call chills him to the bone: a cold-blood ...

Mom to Hundreds (2020)

With the continuous arrival of migrants to Palermo, a councilor becomes the legal guardian of hundreds of children while also dealing with her own family problems. ...

Houseguests (2020)

A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge. ...

Se c’è un aldilà sono fottuto - Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari (2019)

Tomorrow's a New Day (2019)

When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Giuliano's failing health and his decision to forgo treatment. Inste ...

Cosa fai a Capodanno? (2018)

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy. ...

The Stolen Caravaggio (2018)

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it's the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happene ...

Bob & Marys (2018)

A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material. ...

The Furlough (2017)

The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of ...

It's All About Karma (2017)

Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father. ...

La verità sta in cielo (2016)

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl. ...

The Confessions (2016)

A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Danie ...

Don't Be Bad (2015)

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success. ...

I Killed Napoleon (2015)

In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble. ...

My Daughter's First Time (2015)

Panicked after finding out that his teenage daughter wants to lose her virginity, an overprotective father comes up with a plan to dissuade her. ...

Well-Off People (2014)

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life. ...

Amiche da morire (2013)

Gilda has long since moved to a small southern island and earns her living as a prostitute in a context suspended between retrograde traditions and modernity. During one summer, his destiny intersects with that of Olivia and Crocetta, two women from the ar ...

Long Live Freedom (2013)

Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal, the upper echelons of the party concoct a risky plan: to replace him with his identical twin, a philosoph ...

Ci vediamo a casa (2012)

Three different couples are looking for a house to live. ...

Cherry on the Cake (2012)

Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way after swearing ...

A Magnificent Haunting (2012)

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts. ...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012)

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting wi ...

Aida (2012)

Il delitto di Via Poma (2011)

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight. ...

Loose Cannons (2010)

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his par ...

Tutto l'amore del mondo (2010)

Four friends to the discovery of the most fun and romantic of Europe: Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Scotland. A road trip that will bring our protagonists to know each other better and to fall in love. ...

The Right Thing (2009)

An odd couple of contrasting cops: one is a disillusioned veteran, the other young, idealistic and speaks fluent Arabic. Ideal for tailing Khalid (Ahmed Hafiene), who was acquitted but is still suspected of having ties with Al-Qaida. The two cops, who init ...

The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires... ...

Il mercante di stoffe (2009)

An ancient legend becomes a predicament to the faith of two lovers coming from very different cultural, religious and social backgrounds. ...

Albakiara (2008)

Promiscuous teenager Chiara gets herself and her equally debauched peers embroiled in a drug ring run by a dirty cop. ...

Basette (2008)

Antonio's first day as a thief is marked by tears. During an incursion at the mall, his mother is arrested. Some 20 years later, Antonio along with his two inseparable friends, after some minor robberies, take on a post office. Things don't go as planned. ...

I Vicerè (2007)

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime. ...

Valzer (2007)

In the service quarters of a grand hotel, a young maid and a man meet in a situation which breaks all certainties and identities. ...

SoloMetro (2007)

SMS: Sotto Mentite Spoglie (2007)

A married man with two children, faithful and in love with his wife, discovers that his wife would like to spice up the menage a little. He plays along and starts texting her as if he were his lover. ...

Secret Journey (2006)

After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives. ...

The Days of Abandonment (2005)

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors. ...

Shadows in the Sun (2005)

An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters. ...

Under a False Name (2004)

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire. ...

Follow the Shadows (2004)

The young Carabiniere Gatta is sent to barracks in the Naples area. It's 1946 and the war is still hanging in the air even if the small community doesn't seem to have been affected that much by it. Even so, certain suspicions take root in the brigadier's m ...

Ginostra (2003)

An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness. ...

The Soul Keeper (2003)

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first ti ...

Rosa Funzeca (2002)

Rosa Funzeca, after twenty years as a prostitute, decides to make a change in her life and to look for an honest job that'll allow her to be reunited with her son Fernando. But things are not easy. ...

The Prince and the Pirate (2001)

After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail. ...

Malefemmene (2001)

A young woman is wrongly jailed. In prison she finds a completely different world made of women who seem to have found the formula for freedom. ...

I Love Andrea (2000)

Dado likes the beautiful Francesca who likes Andrea, a girl that lives with her. ...

Up at the Villa (2000)

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II. ...

Prima la musica, poi le parole (2000)

Love in the Mirror (1999)

In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other. ...

The Scent of the Night (1998)

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

I miei più cari amici (1998)

The Last New Year's Eve (1998)

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a ...

Finalmente soli (1997)

Fratelli coltelli (1997)

Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from the notary he learns that he has an illegitimate brother with whom he will have to share half of his inheri ...

Il barbiere di Rio (1996)

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to Brazil. ...

Giovani e belli (1996)

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft. ...

Italiani (1996)

1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later. ...

Un inverno freddo freddo (1996)

Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon. ...

Love Story With Cramps (1995)

Loves and jealousies, abandonments and returns, of two couples on vacation in Africa. ...

OcchioPinocchio (1994)

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son. ...

The Whores (1994)

Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the str ...

Black as the Heart (1994)

Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance leads Valentino to investigate, discovering that Ray worked as a gar ...

La ribelle (1993)

Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has no parents, but lives with her aunt and uncle together with her older sister who acts as her mother and t ...

Acla's Descent into Floristella (1992)

Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils fro ...

I Wanted Pants (1990)

Annetta, of Sicilian origins, is annoyed by the different treatments and freedoms reserved for men and women. Because of her rebellious attitude, the girl is locked up in the house of her relatives where she suffers an attempt of violence by her uncle. Aft ...

The Big Fox (1988)

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpon ...

I picari (1987)

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century. ...

Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission (1987)

Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome. ...

Stregati (1986)

Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia. ...

Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote is ...

School of Thieves (1986)

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to ...

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri (1986)

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. Moreover, Co ...

Blame it on Paradise (1985)

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him ...

Aurora (1984)

A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son. ...

Son contento (1983)

The Lonely Lady (1983)

A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood. ...

The Pool Hustlers (1983)

Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, b ...

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight (1982)

A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco. ...

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre. ...

Se c’è un aldilà sono fottuto - Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari (2019)

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano (2010)

Umano Non Umano (1969)

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances. ...