Nando Paone

High Stakes - A Night In The Ward (2024)

It's Ferragosto, Italy's mid-August holiday, in a practically deserted hospital in Naples. Two nurses, Angelo and Salvatore, are on shift when a desperately ill patient is wheeled in. With his seasoned eye, Angelo knows at once that Mr. Caputo won't last t ...

Liberato's Secret (2024)

Blending animated storytelling with intimate narration, this documentary paints a soulful portrait of the anonymous Neapolitan singer known as Liberato. ...

Chi ha rapito Jerry Calà? (2023)

An unlikely gang of new criminals decides to kidnap Jerry Calà with the aim of asking for a large ransom and turning their lives around. They will soon discover that things aren't exactly as they imagined. Friends Mara Venier and Umberto Smaila and their ...

Nuvole (2021)

The Finch Thief (2020)

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected. ...

The Predators (2020)

This is the story of two completely opposite households: the Pavone are intellectual and bourgeois, the Vismara are proletarian and fascists. They are two tribes sharing the same jungle: Rome. A trivial accident brings these two poles together. The madness ...

Amo la tempesta (2020)

A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany. ...

Una festa esagerata (2018)

Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk. ...

Poison (2017)

Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill. ...

Simposio Suino in Re Minore (2017)

An Almost Perfect Country (2016)

Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that ...

...It's Snowing Outside! (2014)

After their mother dies, three brothers must live together in order to get their inheritance — and soon start to uncover dark family secrets. ...

The Art of Happiness (2013)

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fra ...

Reality (2012)

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it. ...

Don't Tell Me (2012)

Welcome to the North (2012)

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limit ...

Napoletans (2011)

In a small town in southern Italy lives the Di Gennaro family. Gennaro, the householder, is a noted dentist, married to Anna, a housewife, a few years away from converting to Buddhism. They have two sons: Roberto, last year medical student and guitarist in ...

Welcome to the South (2010)

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is ...

The Whole Shebang (2001)

On a mission to save his family's fireworks business, a man becomes distracted after he falls in love. ...

A ruota libera (2000)

Pericle Caruso lives in Naples, and is in a wheelchair because of a bad surgery in hospital. Pericle intends to sue the rich owner of the clinic: a stingy and cruel baron, and so he falls on purpose of his wife ... ...

Premiata Pasticceria Bellavista (2000)

Amore a prima vista (1999)

A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation. ...

My Best Friend's Wife (1998)

Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michel ...

...e fuori nevica! (1995)

Passerotti o pipistrelli? (1993)

Cellini: A Violent Life (1990)

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of ...

Puro cashmere (1986)

Giuliano, kindergarten teacher, goes to his ex's birthday, meets Liliana and falls in love with her. ...

Magic Moments (1984)

Three young friends – aspiring film director Roberto, aspiring producer Ben and aspiring comedian Cico – move to Rome looking for a career in a film industry that they discover being well past its heyday. ...

The Yellow Panther (1982)

Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure. ...

Bomber (1982)

Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money. ...

I Carabbinieri (1981)

Hotel Room (1981)

A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but ...

La gatta da pelare (1981)

A cartoonist, morbidly jealous of his wife's psychiatrist, work out his feelings through his drawings. When the doctor is murdered, he becomes the prime suspect. ...

Teste di quoio (1981)

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. ...

My Wife is a Witch (1980)

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times. ...

The Day Christ Died (1980)

A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion. ...

The Highschool Girl, the Devil, and the Holywater (1979)

An anthology film in which a guardian angel falls in love with a beautiful dancer a policeman must keep an eye on an arrested transvestite, and a dental technician sells his soul to the devil but is not satisfied with the results. ...

How to Seduce Your Teacher (1979)

There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the gra ...

They Called Him Bulldozer (1978)

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so ...

Double Murder (1977)

Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak acci ...

The Schoolmate (1977)

Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy ...