Francesco Russo

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

When a member of their fantasy football league vanishes on his wedding day, a motley group of friends recount the lead-up to his chaotic bachelor party.

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

A group of former high school classmates reunite after seventeen years for the funeral of an old friend. Aided by alcohol and a forgotten video, they sneak into their old school one night to relive the magic of that time. But a simple reunion quickly turns into a criminal adventure.

A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy in 1930s Brooklyn for what is described as a surreal, grotesque, complex narrative.

65 year old doctor Pierfrancesco works as a night-shift medical guard. He’s a grumpy man, full of aches and pains and is very rough with his patients. One night, he’s involved in a road collision with 30 year old delivery man Mario. While uninjured, Mario's bicycle is destroyed, and Pierfrancesco's sciatica flares up, making it impossible for him to drive. With both of their jobs in jeopardy, the doctor has an idea that could help them both: “remotely guided” by Pierfrancesco via wireless headset, Mario will visit his patients, and they’ll also carry out Mario’s delivery in Pierfrancesco’s car. After a range of daring (mis)adventures, they will learn to support each other, and the night will end with their lives both changed for the better.

Michele, Tiziana, Nino, Antonella, Filippo and Linda are the six aspiring content creators selected to participate in Dedalus, a new social game that promises to make the winner rich and famous. Locked up in an isolated arena, the contestants participate in trials that prove increasingly dangerous. What seemed like a simple game slowly turns into something completely different and the contestants, find themselves both executioners and victims of an elaborate revenge.

The king of a secret modern-time Medieval kingdom leaves his throne in inheritance to his son, who struggles to lead the kingdom in fight for its independence from the Italian state.

In the past few days Rome has been the scene of a singular event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam whose origin and composition is unknown. No one can imagine that whoever breathes in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what he/she represses, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.

In a police station in a small village, a sergeant interrogates a young and frightened postman, known as "Cacasotto". He, normally known for being calm and good-hearted, was arrested for having threatened a policeman on patrol with a knife. Eventually, Cacasotto begins to speak with the cop. And he tells what happened twenty years earlier to him and to his five best friends: Gianluca, Walter, Peppino, Margherita and his little brother, Andrea.

Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that one of her children is his, making him obsessed to know which one.

A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

Rome, Tuscolano district. The sirens of the Carabinieri echo in the distance. In an apartment, three young men-Paolo, a 25-year-old aspiring filmmaker from Naples; Davide, a pragmatic 30-year-old from Treviso; and Aran, an eccentric 21-year-old Turk-find themselves surrounded by jars of marijuana. The tension is palpable.

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David and Davide, raising their seven-year-old daughter Lucia, spend a September day by the lakeside. In this season of transition, with the shifting weather echoing the moods of the water, what begins as an apparently peaceful moment of everyday family life slowly unravels under the weight of the couple's unspoken tensions. Left to herself, Lucia turns a simple corkscrew into a B-2 stealth bomber, takes flight, and disappears.

The marriage between sociology professor Patrick and psychotherapist Julia is a successful, stable union, a relationship many envy. It is a partnership in which both find a sense of security and inspiration. The only thing missing is sex. Julia has lost all desire for it. Patrick, however, refuses to resign himself to abstinence. Since both are determined to save their relationship, Julia proposes an unconventional solution to the problem. Online, Patrick finds Claire, a woman who is natural, intelligent, attractive, and desirable. Claire is a woman who knows exactly what she is doing, and who shrewdly leverages her erotic capital to ensure her financial security. The affair is intended to remain strictly sexual. Yet Patrick proves unable to control his emotions as planned. When Claire discovers that she is merely a means to an end for the couple, she begins to cross the established boundaries thereby throwing the entire lives of the married couple, and their family, into turmoil.

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Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives.

First day of last year for the students of a high school science, but at school there is something new: some guys have been moved from their respective classes in a section created especially for them, the section H. Students of the H section are not were chosen at random, are in fact notoriously problematic elements, too exuberant and listless. Among them is Ricky who is awake and never misses a chance to make jokes irritating that it shares on its Youtube channel, Star whose only interest is its look and Viola intelligent but always at war with the world.

Gaetano decided that he would bury his deceased brother with his family at all costs, even if it meant defying the laws of his Sicilian village and putting himself and his family in danger.

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