Paolo Vivaldi

The Negotiator (2025)

Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission. ...

Gabriella (2024)

Dike – vita da magistrato (2024)

The documentary explores the lives of six magistrates in six Italian courts, engaged in different roles and at different stages of their lives, analyzing the difficulties, hardships, and joys of this profession, with the aim of dismantling long-standing pr ...

Com’è umano lui! (2024)

The film retraces the early years of Paolo Villaggio's career, from when he was an employee to the success of the Fantozzi film series. ...

Milva, diva per sempre (2024)

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. ...

Filumena Marturano (2022)

Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that one of her children is his, making him obsessed to know which one. ...

Tutto per mio figlio (2022)

Raffaele Acampora is a man like many others. He has a wife, Anna, whom he loves, and four children, the eldest of whom, Peppino, is fourteen years old and, like many boys his age, is beginning to find his way in the world. But it's not easy to do so when y ...

La voglia matta di vivere (2022)

Uno, nessuno, cento Nino (2021)

A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi. ...

Rita Levi-Montalcini (2020)

In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game. ...

Permette? Alberto Sordi (2020)

Biopic about Italian actor Alberto Sordi, from his beginnings 1937 to celebrity in 1957. ...

Enrico Piaggio: Vespa (2019)

It is 1945. Enrico Piaggio's Pontedera factory is in ruins and the 12,000 people who worked there are condemned to unemployment and misery. Piaggio feels the enormous responsibility resting on his shoulders: the lives of so many families depend on his abil ...

Ovvi destini (2019)

Three sisters. Laura, the eldest; Lucia, the middle one; Costanza, the younger. Costanza is wheelchair bound because of an accident caused by Laura. Costanza and Lucia are not aware of Laura's responsibility, but a strange being is: Carlo, who starts black ...

As Needed (2018)

A 40-year-old world-famous chef with anger management issues is assigned to run a cooking class at a centre for young people with autism. ...

Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head (2018)

An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes. ...

Twins (2018)

The massacre of the Levi family, of which only adopted twins Eva and Greta survive, pits priests Father Michel and Father Paul against the powers of evil, both convinced that the twins are diabolical. ...

Thus Spoke De Crescenzo (2017)

Tracing the journey of a free thinker, engineer, writer, scriptwriter, actor and director through his life and work, Così Parlo De Crescenzo harnesses the energy of a man determined to transform the lives and culture of those around him. Born in Naples, L ...

Ugly Nasty People (2017)

Four physically disabled lowlifes plot the perfect heist, but things go south when each reveals an agenda of their own. ...

Tainted Souls (2017)

The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder ma ...

Insane Love (2017)

An obsessive and almost surreal love story between Alessandro, a young model of rare beauty, and Sofia, an Argentine girl who has ended up in Rome for a strange game of destiny. Young couple having to adapt at all costs to the logic of this new world, are ...

Lasciami Per Sempre (2017)

The romantic entanglements within a colorful family tree that has grown up around three sisters, Carmen, Viola, and Aida, during the celebration of a son's birthday in a house on the island of Elba. Based on the novel by Simona Izzo. ...

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 ...

Un Nuovo Giorno (2016)

Filmed in Rome and Bangkok, the film tells the story of Giulio, who has felt like he was born in the wrong body since he was a child. At the age of 27, he decides to undergo surgery, at a prestigious clinic in Thailand. But once he becomes a woman, he suff ...

Luisa Spagnoli (2016)

This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is a ...

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. ...

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud (2015)

Non Escludo Il Ritorno (2014)

Franco Califano, fallen and resurrected several times, begins his third life after the years of drugs and prison, of a youth lived to the last breath, appearing at Sanremo just to come in last in the rankings. But his third life as an artist has just begun ...

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno (2013)

In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the wh ...

Barabbas (2012)

Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, inst ...

Hidden Olympics (2012)

In a German concentration camp in occupied Poland, a group of prisoners prepared a symbolic Olympic Games. The German Nazis discovered their plans and agree to face them in competitions to prove their racial superiority. ...

Caldo criminale (2010)

Anna, a woman hiding from her soon-to-be-released abusive husband, witnesses a murder from the front window of her apartment. However, the police finds no evidence of the crime. Anna investigates and finds out the place was rented to a socialite whose youn ...

David Copperfield (2009)

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. ...

Mal'aria (2009)

Codice Aurora (2008)

Il giorno, la notte. Poi l'alba (2007)

Ghost Son (2007)

A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man. ...

La stella dei re (2007)

A celestial map, made of precious stones and hidden in an ancient temple, predicts an extraordinary event when the planets align according to an old scroll. This audiovisual adaptation, based on the work of novelist Emmanuel Exitu, offers a new perspective ...

Salvatore. Questa è la vita (2006)

Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his little sister and his grandmother; after loosing his father in a tragic way he quits school and starts working as a fisherman and a farmer in order to support his little family. The Social Services soo ...

Fratelli (2006)

Anna discovers that has a brother that went to Canada because of the hunger on World War II ...

The Torturer (2005)

The gorgeous young actress Ginette auditions for the lead role in the first long feature film of the controversial artist Alex Sherba and she's almost immediately submitted to a long series of harassing questions and indecent proposals. Alex quickly turns ...

Il bambino sull'acqua (2005)

Non aver paura (2005)

De Gasperi: The Man of Hope (2005)

In August 1954, Alcide De Gasperi, now at the end of his personal and political career, left the Christian Democrats' headquarters in Rome and visited his daughter, Lucia, a nun. He revealed to her that he had definitively retired from active politics and ...

Posso chiamarti amore? (2004)

Vite a perdere (2004)

Stai con me (2004)

Signora (2004)

Rome, 1933. Sara, a beautiful, aristocratic American girl, wife of a rich entrepreneur, falls in love with Guido, a young engineer. They start a passionate love affair. Suddenly, one day, Guido disappears, without leaving a trace. ...

Tornare indietro (2002)

A painter from Turin, Stefano Faenza, arrives in Reggio Calabria on the occasion of a personal exhibition organized in his honor in Locride. Behind this initiative there is a schoolmate of his, Gino Jacona, today councillor to the culture. During the trip, ...

L'uomo della fortuna (2000)

Donne in bianco (1998)

Facciamo fiesta (1997)

La classe non è acqua (1997)

Naja (1997)

Five soldiers and their punishment. ...

Mirko e Caterina (1995)

Bandits (1995)

Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former revolutionaries, to kidnap Prime Minister Ullmann, once their companion, to extort money from the state. ...

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

Like Crazy (2016)

Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world. ...

B.B. e il cormorano (2003)

In a shabby residence on the coast between Livorno and Pisa, Mario, known as "Il Cormorano", a grumpy and disillusioned young man, works as a plumber to scrape together the sum necessary to realize his dream. He wants to join his uncle Piero in America to ...