Francesco Di Leva

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

Luigi has lived with his mother and little brother since their abusive father Franco left when he was 10. Now a young man brimming with rage, he ...

An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the ...

Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father’s old friends, who risk everything to save him.

On the night before his retirement, police lieutenant Franco Amore is called to investigate the death of a long-time partner of his in a diamond ...

The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the ’80s.

Puglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who seem to come from a remote past governed by the ...

Spring 2020. In the midst of the pandemic, Diego has just turned 18. Although he’s named after his father’s idol, Maradona, he ...

Tonino Esposito is the son of the fearsome Camorra boss of Rione Sanità, Naples. Unlike him, however, Tonino is clumsy and utterly innocuous—a ...

January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him ...

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, ...

Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the ...

Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone ...

The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life ...

Waves is inspired by a short novel of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-tide, written and published in 1894, the year of his untimely death ...

The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August ...

Vento Di Terra (wind of the earth) is an Italian film about an 18 year old boy (Vicenzo Pacilli) from a poor suburb of Napoli, Italy who finds ...

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 ...

The young Carabiniere Gatta is sent to barracks in the Naples area. It’s 1946 and the war is still hanging in the air even if the small ...

This is the story of a Sicilian woman that tries to have avidly as many sexual adventures as possible. She uses different identities and ...