Claudio Santamaria

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels...

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his...

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires...

A bumbling Christmas elf whose Santa's helper job is jeopardized by a complete inability in building toys teams up with a kid harassed by bullies.

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio...

A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories...

A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.

After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has...

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists...

It’s June 1st, 1970, and Pisa is the epicenter of the movement Lotta Continua. There are rumors of an imminent coup d’état, and...

Fragments of what would've been Piero Natoli latest film before his untimely death.

A college student gets caught up in a spiral that leads him to become a real Mafia godfather.

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

During their divorce trial, Davide and Giulia go back through episodes of their life together while they listen to a series of witnesses. Do they...

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.

Six shorts.

Initially produced for the Surreal Sit-Com "The Fourth Sex" starring Claudio Santamaria in the role of Jesus that on the night of his 34th birthday...

When the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy emerges in the clutches of a black-market smuggling ring in New York City's dangerous underbelly,...

Two friends reminisce about their last days of high school, when one of them ruined his shot at young love due to his jealousy and possessiveness.

It's one of the many anonymous nights of quarantine when Irene's phone rings. It's Pietro, her ex. Irene hasn't heard him for months, since their...

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With...

Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims...

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story...

When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric...

School's out and 13-year-old Walter has lost his father. In his seemingly aimless wanderings around the Roman coast, a fascinating and mysterious...

Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper...

After coming in contact with radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo Ceccotti gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his...

A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before...

Global politics in a fairytale nutshell: the eternal struggle between the ruling elite and the underclass, condemned to ignorance.

PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts...

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest...

A group of physically disabled lowlifes plans the the perfect heist, but things go south as each reveals an agenda of their own.

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at...

Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting...

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the...

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.

Max believes that existence is just a game, and his wife will have the arduous task of bringing him back to reality.

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students...

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner...

Four circus freaks with superpowers find themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied Rome after their owner and father figure goes missing in the aftermath...

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and...

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius...

Rome, 1944. An Italian cook meets a young American soldier with a mission: to set up a special meal for the Allied forces stationed in the city.

After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the...

Over the course of one long night, mountain roads crisscrossing wooded slopes become the scene of a series of gruesome murders, all committed by an...