Paolo Bonacelli

In the Hand of Dante (2026)

A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel story follows Dante's quest to create his masterpiece. ...

Nato il sei ottobre (2024)

The documentary recounts an important part of the history of this country, retracing a long journey that began on October 6, 1924, and continues to this day. On that day, radio took its first tentative steps into our homes, broadcasting a brief official an ...

The Commander (2023)

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to sa ...

Noi ce la siamo cavata (2023)

Divine (2020)

While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about to become a nun and is therefore actually promised to God. Gregory faces an accumulation of mysterious obs ...

To the Unknown God (2019)

Lucia and her 17-year-old son Gabriel only have each other. The father left the family when Gabriel's older sister Anna died of leukemia eight years ago. Now Lucia works in a hospice, where she befriends retired professor Redetti and other palliative care ...

Forse è solo mal di mare (2019)

Magical Nights (2018)

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who†...

The Ploy (2016)

In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death. ...

The American (2010)

Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him. ...

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to thr ...

13 at a Table (2004)

Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with his entire family, to arrange, with his brothers and cousins, for its sale. The house brings back memories of his youth and of the beautif ...

A.A.A. Achille (2003)

Achille, nine years old, intelligent, sympathetic, and stutterer. The parents decide to treat him and entrust him to Dr. Aglieri, who begins the therapy. ...

The Accidental Detective (2003)

A famous collector dies suddenly in Florence in strange circumstances. His wife, the only heir of an immense wealth, has a unpleasant surprise: the husband, a few days before his death, had spent 20 million dollars to buy a building in the heart of the Tus ...

Gli astronomi (2003)

Dirty Linen (1999)

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth. ...

Bakunin's Son (1997)

Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel... ...

The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession. ...

Christmas Vacation '95 (1995)

Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his ga ...

Once a Year, Every Year (1994)

A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The other ...

The Teddy Bear (1994)

A renowned gynecologist receives anonymous death threats that seem to be related to his troubled past. ...

Abraham (1993)

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him. ...

Mille bolle blu (1993)

The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully ...

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 ...

Il segno del comando (1992)

Night on Earth (1991)

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. ...

Johnny Stecchino (1991)

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he me ...

Touch and Die (1991)

Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark poli ...

Only One Survived (1990)

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble. ...

Flight from Paradise (1990)

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave ...

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato (1989)

A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was stealing. ...

Francesco (1989)

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the po ...

A Double Victory (1989)

Following a life-altering heart attack, a train driver named Saverio receives a heart transplant from a young, deceased runner. To honor his donor, Saverio takes on the challenge of fulfilling the young man's dream, training for and ultimately completing t ...

Lenin: The Train (1988)

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officer ...

Topo Galileo (1988)

A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant. ...

Rimini Rimini (1987)

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy. ...

Love Sins (1987)

A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadentismo, was beginning to take shape, the film focuses on D'Annunzio's life when he was already an establishe ...

L'ultima mazurka (1986)

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 ...

Mother Ebe (1985)

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft. ...

Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history. ...

The Naked Sun (1984)

An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman who reveals Rio de Janeiro's most magical, secret locales. ...

Henry IV (1984)

Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie. ...

The Commissioner (1983)

In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life becomes complicated the day he realizes that someone is persistently spying on him. ...

The Knight, Death and The Devil (1983)

A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. ...

Words and Blood (1982)

The youth protest against corruption in Italian politics. When they subsequently find themselves in trouble, they take the law into their own hands: they form the Red Brigade, which wreaks death and destruction. ...

I Remember Nelson (1982)

Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best. ...

Delitti, amore e gelosia (1982)

The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)

A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared history. ...

Calderon (1981)

The Persian Lamb Coat (1980)

Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find ran ...

Le Guignolo (1980)

After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after h ...

Good News (1979)

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in ...

Caligula (1979)

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity. ...

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation. ...

Midnight Express (1978)

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the Am ...

Nest of Vipers (1978)

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena. ...

This Is the Night (1977)

Based on a book by Juan Carlo Onetti, the film tells the story of Ossario, a hunted revolutionary leader who sees his comrades die one after another. ...

Evil Thoughts (1976)

Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spira ...

The Inheritance (1976)

In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance. ...

La banca di Monate (1976)

Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do so, he then tries a robbery in his own bank. ...

Illustrious Corpses (1976)

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. ...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture. ...

Beyond Fear (1975)

A group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angering the kidnappers to the point where they might hurt or kill them. ...

Gli strumenti del potere. 1925/1926 la dittatura fascista (1975)

Year One (1974)

Rossellini's biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism. ...

The Murri Affair (1974)

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and ...

Milarepa (1974)

After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark vengeance, spiritual discipline, and ultimate transcendence, reflecting a journey of inner transformation. ...

Giordano Bruno (1973)

Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'. ...

Io e lui (1973)

Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", ...

Il cancelliere Krehler (1972)

When he is granted a day off to celebrate his daughter's wedding, office worker Krehler begins to realize how alienated he is. ...

Maddalena (1971)

The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest. ...

A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971)

A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps. ...

Tears of Love (1970)

An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife. ...

Seven Times Seven (1968)

A gang of prison inmates escape to do a job at the Royal Mint, with only the time of the Cup Final to get back into the Scrubs. ...

The Devil in Love (1966)

Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478. ...

Pleasant Nights (1966)

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages. ...

SuperSeven Calling Cairo (1965)

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera. ...

One Million Dollars (1964)

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various ...

Corpse for the Lady (1964)

Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested. ...