Patrizio Rispo

Jago: Into the White (2024)

A portrait of the artist as a young man — Jago, a sculptor in Naples, works through the days and nights chipping away at his next marble masterpiece: a recreation of one of Michelangelo's iconic subjects. ...

Napoli Eden (2020)

All that you will see has really happened . Napoli Eden is an inspirational cinematic odyssey that highlights environmental protection through the theme of transforming recycled aluminum into works of art. Napoli Eden conveys a vision of redemption, social ...

Forbidden School (2019)

Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy. ...

Love and Bullets (2017)

A Mafia boss fakes his own death aiming at a fresh start, but a nurse happens to see him alive and well after the funeral. A hitman is promptly sent to get rid of her, only to find out she's his first and unforgotten love. ...

The Grotto (2014)

Carlo and Melissa stay at a seaside villa but everything changes when Melissa discovers an ancient book of demons and the ghost of a 10 year old boy that's been dead for 40 years. She becomes possessed and it's up to Carlo, with the help of Anna De Luca, a ...

Luigi and Vincenzo (2013)

Today, a special day for Luigi and Vincenzo, years of a love story in clandestine, for shame, fear, thinking do not have rights, no marriage, no family, neither walking hand in hand.... But this day, the same of the Napoli gay pride day, something changes. ...

Welcome Mr. President! (2013)

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precar ...

Impepata di nozze (2012)

L'era legale (2011)

Mokumentary. Year 2020, Nicolino Amore becomes the new mayor of Naples and begins a war on garbage and organized crime. In this way, Naples will soon be the cleanest and safest city on earth. ...

Vorrei averti qui (2010)

Ci sta un francese, un inglese e un napoletano (2008)

A Children's Story (2004)

Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges. ...

L'isola degli smemorati (2004)

On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by nine elderly people, including the ancient wizard Lucanòr, no one remembers what children are. One day, however, a boat carrying a group of helpless shipwrecked children arrives on this piece of land s ...

Swept Away (2002)

Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue. ...

La vita degli altri (2002)

Luisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of the camorra, that has just discovered that he has been betrayed he decided to break off completely from thos ...

Strong Arms (1997)

This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The ...

Caramelle (1995)

A woman is longing to make love to her husband once again, but he is always working or tired. At her wit's end she consults a medium, who has a couple of solutions for her problem. The first two solutions fail, but maybe the sweets will help? ...

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993)

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse. ...

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his las ...

L'ultima scena (1988)

I'm Starting from Three (1981)

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people. ...

The Kingdom of Naples (1978)

Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families. ...