Movies: Paolo Sassanelli

Tough, gripping drama about a committed, principled priest taking on the Mafia and risking his life in a poverty-stricken parish in Naples....

"Nicola, where the sun rises" - Tells the true story of the transfer, from Myra (today Demre in Turkey ) to Bari , of the relics of St. Nicholas. 62 sailors arrive in Lycia aboard 3 sailing ships to steal the bones of the saint. They return to Bari o...

Astrophysicist Lorenzo returns to Sicily from Milan to sell his childhood home. Upon arrival, he meets Salvatore, whom he enlists to help with maintenance work. Lorenzo discovers that he does not have the funds he hoped for to continue the research h...

Michele Moretti is an aspiring director who lives with his brother Niccolò with whom he manages mattresses sales; he spends his free time with his friends Francone and Giovanni and with Anna, a girl he has met and who sells paintings at traffic light...

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Rosy has an important committee to do to get even with his childhood, a secret consumed in solitude, a secret that puts an end for ever to that Rosy had to endure so far....

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This is the story of Abou, a man who lives far from his country and his affections....

The police infiltrates an unemployed classically-trained musician into a wedding band in order to drive out an elusive Camorra boss....

DV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors ....

A pensioner with many phobias realises one day that four million francs have been mistakenly deposited into his account. Instead of notifying the bank, he makes an unexpected decision: he withdraws the money and flees on his moped....

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Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps....

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