Movies: Luca Lionello

Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship....

Bota (Albanian for “the world”) is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here that the lives of the protagonists intersect in this compelling debut by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci. The direct...

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Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is ...

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Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento....

The story of a teenager whose biggest dream is to marry Simon Le Bon, singer of pop band Duran Duran....

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and wit...

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A man, after many years, returns to his home village following the death of his father, a beloved local stationmaster....

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that c...

The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s....

In the summer of 2010 the peaceful Italian coastal town of Porto Ercole became the scene of a momentous discovery....

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In 1917, Gino Montanari, an elementary school teacher from Romagna, was forced by the principal of his school to volunteer for the First World War because of his libertine and anti-interventionist behavior. With the threat of being expelled from all ...

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Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an ultimatum to the government: if they won't admit their role in hiding proof of the use of depleted ...

A couple's pleasant new life in the country is threatened by the mysterious new next door neighbors....