Sergio Solli

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To Rome with Love (2012)

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Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Woody Allen
CAST:  Elliot Page  •  Woody Allen  •  Jesse Eisenberg  •  Penélope Cruz

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Woody Allen
CAST:  Elliot Page  •  Woody Allen  •  Jesse Eisenberg  •  Penélope Cruz

The Postman (1994)

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Radford
CAST:  Philippe Noiret  •  Massimo Troisi  •  Maria Grazia Cucinotta  •  Renato Scarpa

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Radford
CAST:  Philippe Noiret  •  Massimo Troisi  •  Maria Grazia Cucinotta  •  Renato Scarpa

A Children's Story (2004)

Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrea Frazzi  •  Antonio Frazzi
CAST:  Gianluca Di Gennaro  •  Carmine Recano  •  Arturo Paglia  •  Nuccia Fumo

Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrea Frazzi  •  Antonio Frazzi
CAST:  Gianluca Di Gennaro  •  Carmine Recano  •  Arturo Paglia  •  Nuccia Fumo

Come Undone (2010)

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Silvio Soldini
CAST:  Pierfrancesco Favino  •  Teresa Saponangelo  •  Giuseppe Battiston  •  Alba Rohrwacher

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Silvio Soldini
CAST:  Pierfrancesco Favino  •  Teresa Saponangelo  •  Giuseppe Battiston  •  Alba Rohrwacher

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Martone
CAST:  Carlo Cecchi  •  Anna Bonaiuto  •  Toni Servillo  •  Licia Maglietta

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Martone
CAST:  Carlo Cecchi  •  Anna Bonaiuto  •  Toni Servillo  •  Licia Maglietta

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)

The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lina Wertmüller
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Renzo Montagnani  •  Piera Degli Esposti  •  Gastone Moschin

The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lina Wertmüller
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Renzo Montagnani  •  Piera Degli Esposti  •  Gastone Moschin

And now sex (2001)

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 prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carlo Vanzina
CAST:  Elena Russo  •  Ciro Esposito  •  Lucianna De Falco  •  Adolfo Margiotta

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 prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carlo Vanzina
CAST:  Elena Russo  •  Ciro Esposito  •  Lucianna De Falco  •  Adolfo Margiotta

Stregati (1986)

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DIRECTION:  Francesco Nuti
CAST:  Francesco Nuti  •  Ornella Muti  •  Novello Novelli  •  Mirta Pepe

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DIRECTION:  Francesco Nuti
CAST:  Francesco Nuti  •  Ornella Muti  •  Novello Novelli  •  Mirta Pepe

Kryptonite! (2011)

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Cotroneo
CAST:  Valeria Golino  •  Cristiana Capotondi  •  Luca Zingaretti  •  Libero De Rienzo

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Cotroneo
CAST:  Valeria Golino  •  Cristiana Capotondi  •  Luca Zingaretti  •  Libero De Rienzo

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Tullio Giordana
CAST:  Pierfrancesco Favino  •  Laura Chiatti  •  Luigi Lo Cascio  •  Bob Marchese

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Tullio Giordana
CAST:  Pierfrancesco Favino  •  Laura Chiatti  •  Luigi Lo Cascio  •  Bob Marchese

A spasso nel tempo - L'avventura continua (1997)

The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carlo Vanzina
CAST:  Christian De Sica  •  Massimo Boldi  •  Marco Messeri  •  Mariangela D'Abbraccio

The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carlo Vanzina
CAST:  Christian De Sica  •  Massimo Boldi  •  Marco Messeri  •  Mariangela D'Abbraccio

Thus Spoke Bellavista (1984)

In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luciano De Crescenzo
CAST:  Luciano De Crescenzo  •  Renato Scarpa  •  Tommaso Bianco  •  Giovanni Attanasio

In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luciano De Crescenzo
CAST:  Luciano De Crescenzo  •  Renato Scarpa  •  Tommaso Bianco  •  Giovanni Attanasio

'o Re (1989)

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luigi Magni
CAST:  Giancarlo Giannini  •  Ornella Muti  •  Carlo Croccolo  •  Luc Merenda

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luigi Magni
CAST:  Giancarlo Giannini  •  Ornella Muti  •  Carlo Croccolo  •  Luc Merenda

Salty Air (2006)

Fabio's work consists in helping ex prisoners to find their way in the outside world, but his quite life changes after he meets Mr Sparti, now he has to fight his own ghosts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Angelini
CAST:  Giorgio Pasotti  •  Michela Cescon  •  Giorgio Colangeli  •  Katy Louise Saunders

Fabio's work consists in helping ex prisoners to find their way in the outside world, but his quite life changes after he meets Mr Sparti, now he has to fight his own ghosts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Angelini
CAST:  Giorgio Pasotti  •  Michela Cescon  •  Giorgio Colangeli  •  Katy Louise Saunders

Ciao, Professore! (1992)

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lina Wertmüller
CAST:  Paolo Villaggio  •  Gigio Morra  •  Paolo Bonacelli  •  Isa Danieli

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lina Wertmüller
CAST:  Paolo Villaggio  •  Gigio Morra  •  Paolo Bonacelli  •  Isa Danieli

Sotto Sotto (1985)

Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lina Wertmüller
CAST:  Enrico Montesano  •  Veronica Lario  •  Luisa De Santis  •  Mario Scarpetta

Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lina Wertmüller
CAST:  Enrico Montesano  •  Veronica Lario  •  Luisa De Santis  •  Mario Scarpetta

I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sydney Sibilia
CAST:  Edoardo Leo  •  Valeria Solarino  •  Valerio Aprea  •  Paolo Calabresi

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sydney Sibilia
CAST:  Edoardo Leo  •  Valeria Solarino  •  Valerio Aprea  •  Paolo Calabresi

32nd of December (1988)

Three episodes about the relativity of time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luciano De Crescenzo
CAST:  Luciano De Crescenzo  •  Silvio Ceccato  •  Enzo Cannavale  •  Benedetto Casillo

Three episodes about the relativity of time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luciano De Crescenzo
CAST:  Luciano De Crescenzo  •  Silvio Ceccato  •  Enzo Cannavale  •  Benedetto Casillo

Petomaniac (1983)

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pasquale Festa Campanile
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Mariangela Melato  •  Vittorio Caprioli  •  Ricky Tognazzi

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pasquale Festa Campanile
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Mariangela Melato  •  Vittorio Caprioli  •  Ricky Tognazzi
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