Nicola Rignanese

COMBATTERE (2025)

Andrea is a shocked boxer who arrives late for a worthless fight, but he's finally determined to change everything. ...

Her Second Chance (2024)

The soothing pace of the film shows a woman's journey to reinvent herself, as Anna serves 15 years for a murder she committed as a teenager, and although her sentence has expired, the strange looks around her mean that her trial is not yet over. Anna trave ...

Life's A Beach (2023)

The lawyer Pio has the personality of an earthworm. The priest assigns him, as a driver, the rather prejudiced Amedeo, rough manners and unlikely clothes. The second will wake up the first. ...

100 Sundays (2023)

Antonio, a former shipyard worker, leads a mild and peaceful life: he plays bowls with friends, takes care of his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and Emilia, his only and beloved daughter When Emilia announces to him one d ...

Oltre il confine (2023)

Thank You Guys (2023)

An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot. ...

Margins (2022)

Summer 2008. Three friends have the chance of a lifetime: opening for their favourite punk hardcore band. At the very last moment, the concert falls through but Edo, Iac and Miche don't give up. To them punk is more than music, it's a lifestyle. In a blink ...

Where Life Begins (2022)

An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in southern Italy for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi's daughter, who is tired of the constrain ...

Mad Dog (2021)

Two young people go missing after a rave party in the woods. Meda and Rio, a man defeated by life and an uncompromising captain, are the two cops leading the investigation. It's an old nightmare coming back to haunt the people from the small village near t ...

Ordinary Justice (2020)

While a trial involving murder, manslaughter and armed robbery is being conducted inside the courtroom, the two daughters of the accused are sentenced to wait outside in the hallway. ...

Cetto c'è, senzadubbiamente (2019)

Cetto la Qualunque, having set aside all political ambition, is now nothing more than an entrepreneur. But the news of the worsening condition of his aunt leads him to return to Italy, where something from his past will be revealed and, "doubtlessly," all ...

The Most Beautiful Day in the World (2019)

Arturo Meraviglia is a struggling impresario who has to take care of Gioele and Rebecca, two children "inherited" by an old uncle. When he realizes that little Gioele has superpowers, his luck changes. ...

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (2019)

Tonio, the son the bears King, is kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Due to the harshness of a winter that threatens famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the ...

Coureur (2019)

Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, Felix discovers that his body is not made for the game. ...

Laura's Wedding (2015)

When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family's disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart. ...

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud (2015)

La scuola più bella del mondo (2014)

Mafia & Red Tomatoes (2014)

In Puglia, a cooperative wants to farm the land confiscated from a Mafioso, as it is legally entitled to do. But things are moving slowly. So the members of the cooperative turn to Filippo, who belongs to an anti-mafia organisation with its headquarters in ...

Un marito di troppo (2014)

Everything Everything Nothing Nothing (2012)

Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. ...

Annalisa (2011)

The friendship between two Southern Italy kids is tested by their meeting with a young girl who's attempted suicide after failing to get married. Based on the novel "Il paese delle spose infelici" (literally, "Village of the Sad Brides", which is also the ...

Whatsoeverly (2011)

Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor. ...

The Black Sheep (2010)

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's ...

Marpiccolo (2009)

Tiziano, a seventeen-year-old boy, fights to change his destiny, against the backdrop of a Taranto oppressed by the underworld. With a father sick of video poker and a mother busy opposing the installation of an antenna in front of an elementary school, Ti ...

Cuore scatenato (2003)

In Sicily, in a time not yet forgotten, in the heart of a small secluded town populated by cicadas, ticks and venomous snakes, that which made a man a real man was not riches or power, but his honor. He had to defend his dignity against insults and village ...

Two Friends (2002)

Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would very much ...

Padre Pio de Pietrelcina (1997)

Uomo d'acqua dolce (1997)

Antonio takes a hit on his head when he's out to buy a jar of mushrooms for his wife, and loses his memory. He reappears five years later unaware that time has passed. ...

Vesna Goes Fast (1996)

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation. ...