Mario Patanè

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of...

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple!

Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.

When an unemployed young man finds himself in dire straits and up to his eyes in gambling debt, he believes the only solution is to become a drug...

A young couple a few days before the wedding. She is caught by an identity crisis, gives up everything and finds refuge in a New Age community. Here...

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st...

Lorenzo Caruso is a piscologist who lives in a provincial town with his daughter Giulia, the only company since the death of his wife. Suddenly...

Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy,...

An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young...

Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From...

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on...

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner...

Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral.

Cetto la Qualunque, having set aside all political ambition, is now nothing more than an entrepreneur. But the news of the worsening condition of his...

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to...

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist...