Roberto Accornero

Dead Times (2020)

Dead Times is based on a true story. A widow finds two tombs for her husband. A mystery that can only be solved by a shrewd professor and by two unlikely gravediggers. What they find will open the doors to a forgotten past. ...

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 Nest (2019)

Samuel, a boy who lives with his mother Elena in Villa dei Laghi, an isolated manor surrounded by woods, feels trapped in the family routine, growing up seemingly protected, but unsatisfied and restless. ...

Gorchlach: The legend of Cordelia (2015)

Ancient esoteric artefact of Celtic origin, witnessed of the passing of the ages between the mountains and fulcrum of the articulated plot, the Gorchlach will lead the two protagonists Guglielmo Corsaris (Federico Mariotti) and Rachel Blackwood (Alice Luss ...

The Dinner (2014)

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents prote ...

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 ...

We Believed (2010)

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disill ...

The Double Hour (2009)

A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed. ...

Il mio amico Babbo Natale (2005)

Santa Claus has 24 hours to transform an evil and egoistic rich businessman into a better and honest person. ...

The Days of Abandonment (2005)

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors. ...

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 ...

The Best of Youth (2003)

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades. ...

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi (2003)

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session. ...

Pope John XXIII (2002)

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope". ...

Sleepless (2001)

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus. ...

Non chiamatemi papà (1997)

We All Fall Down (1997)

Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui. ...

Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)

November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his v ...

The Last Days of Humanity (1991)

The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai ...

The Peaceful Air of the West (1990)

Set in Milan in the summer of 1989 against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film follows four frustrated individuals whose lives intertwine because of the loss of a planner. ...

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Ragazza con gli Occhiali Neri (1987)

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. ...

Cat's (1986)

A woman alone in a loft with frescoes of the '600 passes in less than two days a series of contradictory moods. Her only companions, underlining her status of exasperated solitude, are a video projector and an imaginary cat. Soon the protagonist is pushed ...

Ginger and Fred (1986)

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show. ...

The Devil in the Hills (1985)

It is in the late 1930s, and Cesare Pavese, a writer, with two of his friends meets a very uninhibited noble couple. ...