Movies: Domenico Procacci

A court takes 9-year-old Mario away from his abusive family and entrusts him to a childless couple. For the three of them, living together is difficult and often painful, since they come from two different worlds. To cope with loneliness and displace...

A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it....

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon....

The story of a famous middle-aged writer and a college graduate who embark on a road trip that becomes a cross-generational counterpoint....

On Christmas Eve, Manuela Paris returns home to a seaside town near Rome. She has been absent for some time, ever since she left - still a girl - to be a soldier. With determination and sacrifice, Manuela laboriously built the life she dreamed of, un...

From the letter of a small admirer, to the desire to understand who is actually this fan who writes the same things, for twenty years, to more recipients....

Sicily, summer 1990. Two young boys, sons of ardent communists, run away from home to re-found the Pioneers, the glorious and now extinct scouts of the Party. But not everything goes according to their plans....

Orpheus was a child with a dream: to become a singer of smooth. Twenty years later, his dream becomes more complicated: to become a smooth singer with Pamela. And while she, free and elusive, continues to come and go in her life, music and dreams mar...

In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent together. However, she spends the trip haranguing him for the eco...

A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the De...

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families se...

Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space....

On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving...

The actors of Avanzi reunite after 15 years in Su Pallosu, a small village in Sardinia. They have decided to put together a show to support the cause of the local fishermen who are having great difficulty because of fish depopulation....

1944, Piedmont Alps. Four teenagers dream of the end of the war and the moment when they will be reunited with their parents and older siblings. When they discover, by chance, that their age allows them to avoid suspicion and searches, they decide to...

Marionettes in Central Park escape from their theater and embark on an adventure. Film adaptation of the eponymous a novel by writers' collective Luther Blissett, first published in Italian in 1999....

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“La Valanga Azzurra” traces the unparalleled journey of the Italian national alpine skiing team of the 1970s, led by the legendary coach Mario Cotelli and spearheaded by champions like Gustav Thöni and Piero Gros. Through victories that rewrote the h...

Documentary about the short life of 'Radio Alice' (one of the first and most influential free radios in Italy), and its surreal political/dadaist milieu....

"La stagione dell'amore" investigates themes of love in contemporary Italian society, and continues the investigation conducted by Pier Paolo Pasolini in his film "Love Meetings" (1965)....