Advanced search

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

Mary, trapped in a relationship with criminal Nunzio in southern Italy, finds strength through her affair with riding instructor Giulio. Despite her friend Michele's warnings, she chooses love, triggering Nunzio's vengeful rage.

WWI has ended but events surrounding the first free election in Italy threaten to tear the village apart. Padre Pio struggles with his own personal demons, ultimately emerging to become one of Catholicism's most venerated figures.

A former Greek diving champion and an eccentric German student take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria.

Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York.

The shooting of Franco Maresco's film on Carmelo Bene is interrupted. Maresco accuses the production of "filmicide" before vanishing. A friend steps in, investigating as a chance to explore one of Italian cinema's most corrosive authors.

In this gruesome suspense film, strangers traveling in southern Italy become stranded in the woods, where they must fight desperately to get out alive.

Three women, Smita, Giulia and Sarah, are from different parts of the world and have never met, but are bound by something intimate and unique.

Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.

Tommaso and Antonio are two gay brothers. When Tommaso is about to come out, Antonio says it first. Outraged, their father banishes Antonio from the clan, before being struck down by a heart attack.

A psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different story than that of her perception.

A rebellious teenager grows up to become one of Milan's most ambitious criminals during the golden years of the 'ndrangheta' Mafia in the 1980s.

Salvatore Todaro is the captain of the Cappellini. He leads in his own way. The bow is reinforced with steel in the off chance an opportunity to ram a ship arises and his crew is armed with daggers should a hand-to-hand battle occur.

Factory managers decide to make a worker a mole to identify the workers who would be best to get rid of. He begins to stalk his colleagues with the aim of reporting them. Soon, not understanding its degradation, he too asks to be placed in the LAF building (acronym for cold rolling mill), a concentration camp reserved for "uncomfortable" workers.

While visiting her fiancé's mother in southern Italy, a woman must fight the mysterious and malevolent curse intent on claiming her daughter.

Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated.

A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.

Elena and Antonio are opposites who develop an irresistible mutual attraction. They attempt to avoid it but eventually give in. Egle, played by Paola Miraccione, is a tragic yet comedic character in this relationship dramedy.

During a supermarket robbery, a married cashier meets a cop who thwarts the heist. Their unexpected romance leads to chaos when she confesses to her husband, forcing the new lovers to flee in search of a fresh start.

Ninella's daughter wants to marry Damiano. Her dream never became reality and history may repeat itself when her daughter Chiara and her chosen one find themselves involved in a whirlpool that may compromise their marriage as well.

When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders, and grannies unite to save the city in this quirky action-comedy.

Stuck at a crossroad, will Malaya fight for the love she found, or will she choose to set her heart free?

The forbidden love between Andrea, the reluctant heir of the Malatesta family, and Marilena, the beautiful wife of the Camporeale boss, rekindles an old feud between two rival families. Marilena, now cast out by the Camporeales and prisoner of the Malatestas, will oppose to a destiny already written.

A Southern Italian singer moves to Milan to have more chances with his career, bringing a little bit of the South with him.

A successful fashion journalist inherits a farm in the deep south of Italy. She goes there to sell it, but not all goes as planned.