Salvatore Ficarra

The Illusion (2025)

1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out. Having landed in ...

From Father to Son - Life as a Fan (2024)

The Ultras are not ordinary spectators of a football match, but fans who live in a territory sacred to them: the Curva. A sort of non-place that takes the concept of social stratification and subverts it for ninety minutes: the doctor is next to the worker ...

Santocielo (2023)

In paradise, a group gathers to discuss why people still act selfishly, even though Jesus sacrificed himself for them 2,000 years ago. As a result, a new Messiah is sent to Earth to address the issue. ...

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (2023)

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director. ...

Il mio amico Massimo (2022)

The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi. ...

Strangeness (2022)

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his event ...

Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem (2019)

A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course. ...

It’s the Law (2017)

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems. ...

Escape From Reuma Park (2016)

Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and Giacomo. ...

Let's Go to the Country (2014)

Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino's home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice. ...

Belluscone: A Sicilian Story (2014)

This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi's political and human defeat in his "twilight", the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi's unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director's artistic defeat in ...

Anche se è amore non si vede (2011)

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus, and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls. ...

Women Vs Men (2011)

Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, ...

Baaria (2009)

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a l ...

La matassa (2009)

Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia. ...

7 and 8 (2007)

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident. ...

Sono cose che capitano (2005)

Ficarra & Picone return to the scene with a new work entitled I'm These things happen and directed by Giambattista Avellino. The center is the man and the phases of its most salient life: love lost or regain, the love that makes us suffer because "the diff ...

Diciamoci la verità (2003)

Nati stanchi (2002)

Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them. ...

Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000)

Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that A ...

Vuoti a perdere (1999)

Santocielo (2023)

In paradise, a group gathers to discuss why people still act selfishly, even though Jesus sacrificed himself for them 2,000 years ago. As a result, a new Messiah is sent to Earth to address the issue. ...

The Bone Breakers (2022)

Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man's arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents ...

Maestrale (2021)

A man goes to work, sees a boat for sale. He dreams of a life to leave behind. He leaves, the dream gives way to memory, the mistral forces him to a landing of fortune. A woman, another story, a new beginning? ...

Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem (2019)

A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course. ...

It’s the Law (2017)

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems. ...

Let's Go to the Country (2014)

Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino's home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice. ...

Anche se è amore non si vede (2011)

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus, and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls. ...

La matassa (2009)

Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia. ...

7 and 8 (2007)

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident. ...

Sono cose che capitano (2005)

Ficarra & Picone return to the scene with a new work entitled I'm These things happen and directed by Giambattista Avellino. The center is the man and the phases of its most salient life: love lost or regain, the love that makes us suffer because "the diff ...

Nati stanchi (2002)

Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them. ...