Direction: Mario Martone

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Anna Bonaiuto · Angela Luce · Gianni Cajafa · Peppe Lanzetta

Synopsis When her elderly mother dies - apparently happy but in curious circumstances - her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent life. In doing so she starts to confront...

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Luigi Lo Cascio · Valerio Binasco · Toni Servillo · Francesca Inaudi

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Toni Servillo · Maria Nazionale · Cristiana Dell'Anna · Antonia Truppo

Synopsis Beloved Neapolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo De Filippo, devoted his entire life to the theater, achieving success with timeless works such as “Miseria e nobiltà.” However, everything he worked for seems lost in 1904, when he’s...

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Elio Germano · Isabella Ragonese · Michele Riondino · Edo Natoli

Synopsis Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Pierfrancesco Favino · Francesco Di Leva · Tommaso Ragno · Aurora Quattrocchi

Synopsis After 40 years of absence, Felice Lasco returns to her hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him. After living for many years in Egypt, Felice returns to Naples...

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Francesco Di Leva · Massimiliano Gallo · Roberto De Francesco · Adriano Pantaleo

Synopsis Mario Martone brings Eduardo De Filippo’s play Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità to the big screen, a story the director sets in the present day, using the text as an opportunity to continue to investigate reality. The protagonist, Antonio Barracano,...

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Jenna Thiam · Donatella Finocchiaro · Maximilian Dirr · Antonio Folletto

Synopsis The year 1914, and Italy is about to go to war. A commune of North Europeans has found on Capri the ideal place to live their lives and practise their art. But the island has its own powerful identity, in...

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Laura Betti

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Enzo Moscato · Marco Manchisi · Tonino Taiuti · Iaia Forte

Synopsis Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato.

Direction Stefano Martone · Mario Martone

Synopsis In 1981, Pinochet privatized almost all of Chile's water resources and in the following thirty years the rights to their water were sold to large companies and corporations for producing hydroelectric power. Now the construction of five large dams on...

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Fanny Ardant · Michele Placido · Giovanna Giuliani · Sergio Tramonti

Synopsis Carlo and Silvia are married since twenty years. He lives with a young lover, while Silvia lives in their original flat. Their regular 'ménage' changes when also Silvia starts meeting other men, and in particular a young and violent neo-fascist....

Direction Francesca Archibugi · Antonio Capuano · Marco Tullio Giordana · Daniele Luchetti

Cast Nanni Moretti

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Carlo Cecchi · Anna Bonaiuto · Renato Carpentieri · Toni Servillo

Synopsis This movie tells the last days of Professor Renato Caccioppoli, a university teacher who carried a disappointing and meaningless life.

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Andrea Renzi · Anna Bonaiuto · Iaia Forte · Toni Servillo

Direction Mario Martone

Cast Paolo Sorrentino · Michael Radford · Francesco Piccolo · Valentino Picone

Synopsis If ever there was an Italian artist who was underrated as an actor and, above all, director (who is still waiting to be discovered), it is Massimo Troisi (1953–1994). Dying young at only forty-one after playing the lead in Il...

Direction Antonio Capuano · Pappi Corsicato · Antonietta de Lillo · Stefano Incerti

Cast Anna Bonaiuto · Iaia Forte · Enzo Moscato · Nunzia Di Somma

Synopsis Offering a host of different visions--a quintet of fairytale visions of Naples by five of the city's most accomplished filmmakers: firstly, "La Stirpe di Iana/Iana's Descendants" concerns a tale of kidnapping and a group of modern-day warrior women on motorcycles,...