Mario Martone

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before ...

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit ...

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

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching ...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini’s ...

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most ...

The film shot signed by Mario Martone of the Ten Commandments, the legendary Decalogue by Raffaele Viviani, in the version staged by Martone ...

Impressive and dramatic found-footage documentary about the worldwide issue of emigration and immigration.

The plot takes place in the Bay of Naples in the 18th century. Deeply convinced of women’s infidelity, the cynical Don Alfonso provokes his ...

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples’ Spanish Boroughs. Director’s plan is to travel to ...

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and ...

Clearly inspired by the then-mayor of Naples Antonio Bassolino, with references to the problems of the city and its hopes of a renaissance, the ...

It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake.

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the ...

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian ...

First segment: Chiara, an office girl, reads for an old man from books. One day a few coinciding occurrences during her reading disturb that ...

A versatile Campanian artist is asked by a client to recreate one of his paintings for him. But can a painter repeat one of his own ...

Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin’s grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the ...

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael ...