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- Partenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?
- In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.
- In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
- An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
- Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
- Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
- Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.
- The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
- The story of Italy, from the 80s to nowadays, told through the life of four friends, Giulio, Gemma, Paolo e Riccardo; during 40 years of loves, aspirations, success and failures.
- Ciro's body is slowly sinking in the Gulf of Naples. As he plunges into darkness, memories emerge.
- A unique portrayal of two young amateur actresses embarking on a journey that will forever change their lives as they star in the most eagerly anticipated new show of 2018-Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend. Naples 2017. The news spread fast. Ferrante's saga, a worldwide phenomenon selling over 13 million novels, is about to become a major TV series for HBO and RAI. Thousands of young girls audition for the parts of the main characters Elena and Lila...but only two succeed. The lives of Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace, cast as Elena and Lila, are about to change in an unimaginable way. An event within the event, this remarkable documentary captures the adventure these two non-actors will go on-from the open casting call of 2,500 hopefuls, through to the show's Venice Film Festival premiere. This is an exclusive look into them experiencing a true Cinderella story, where two unknown, ordinary teenagers embark on roles of a lifetime. The documentary is an intimate portrayal of this unique story, starting with the girls as complete strangers through to their journey of becoming close friends. It documents the transformation of two 15-year-old actresses, their friend-ship, the highs, the lows, the challenges, the rewards, the ordinary and the extraordinary. It is a genuine coming-of-age story as they learn their craft and become embedded in a world they only ever dreamed of. It not only explores the rapport between the two actresses, but also draws parallels to Elena and Lila's relationship and how at times the lines between reality and fiction, person and character, can blur.
- After forty years in prison, Cutolians return to freedom. Having now become men in their 60s, they face the city modern criminality. Meanwhile, some Forcella youths are fighting their own little war in the neighborhood.
- The biography of Neapolitan comic theater legend Eduardo Scarpetta.
- Rise and fall of an Italian crime empire.
- The rise and fall of a Camorra clan in Naples, told through the eyes of a crime boss and his family. Thirty years of a man's life, thirty years in the history of one of the most beautiful and controversial cities on Earth: Naples.
- Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.
- A gang of teenage boys stalks the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
- Carmine runs a restaurant to launder dirty money, and finds himself collaborating with Consuelo, a chef in search of perfection. The love for food and the dream of winning a Michelin star will give them an opportunity for redemption.
- With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.
- 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 morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead. Instead, he was living in a little hotel near Frankfurt, with a wife and a young German son. Then, when the trains filled with waste departed from Naples, the past climbed on board. This is the story of a man who, while trying to kill a chestnut tree with a copper nail, was grabbed from behind by his past. And was forced to settle the score.
- A teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and his students' family problems.
- Naples, 1987. The inhabitants of a suburban building live the last months before making room for a highway that will sweep away their little world forever.
- Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.
- Valeria, a beautiful, determined woman disillusioned about love, is an implacable teacher of setting up single men. One day she met Giulio and offers to help him in his struggle to win back his ex.
- A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.
- In order to avoid the death of the husband (the criminal boss Don Vincenzo, "King of the Fish"), Donna Maria sends her henchmen to kill a lookalike (a shoe-seller) and then she sets up a fake funeral, while the husband is hiding in a secret place. But a nurse saw Don Vincenzo alive in the hospital while he was supposed to be dead, as the TV says. To hush the witness up, Don Vincenzo orders to his best trained bodyguards, Ciro and Rosario, to find the nurse and kill her. Ciro finds the nurse: surprisingly she is Fatima, the only girl he ever loved, which he had abandoned when he began his criminal career. To save her, Ciro hides Fatima by his uncle Mimmo, and starts a bloody fight with all his clan, including his best friend Rosario.
- In the countryside around Caserta, a 44 years old man and his wife raise buffaloes. Local Mob needs their land to increase business.
- A taxi driver who lives in Napoli spend his time on his uncle's car thinking about happiness. His former brother took a road for happiness practicing Buddhism while he is always sad and melancholic. He listens to a radioshow called the art of happiness as a remembering idea of what is the goal of life. Do we have just one life or are we living again and again forever?
- With the American Mafia families pooling their resources to bring huge quantities of cheap heroin into the country, it's up to customs official Ivano Radevic to allow the authorities to intercept the drugs en route to the USA.
- A Greek taxi driver with roots in Naples and his wife Maria, a waitress from Germany, moves together to Mykonos to build a new life.
- Alessandro and Pietro, both aged 16, film themselves with a cell phone to tell the story of their friendship, the tragedy of Davide, and their everyday lives if the difficult Traiano district of Naples.
- The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
- Yssouf arrives in Castel Volturno, 30 km from Naples, a small town known as the 'most African of European cities'. He is supposed to join his uncle Moses there but nobody comes to the appointment. Yssouf then starts living with other immigrants and realizes the place has nothing to do with the Eldorado his uncle had depicted to him. When Yssouf's uncle finally surfaces, the young African must admit his relative had told no lies, he is rich and respected. In fact, Moses is the boss of a gang of drug pushers...
- Clemente Russo portrays himself in the story of a promising boxer who grew up in the Neapolitan mob heartland.
- This particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding within the city.
- Social worker in Naples confronts moral dilemma risking her life's work after battling criminal mindsets in the city's daily conflicts.
- A killer, he call himself Funiculi' Funicula', spread terror in a killing spree during the "Primo Festival Nuova Napoli" ("New Naples First Festival").
- Nino works as an ice cream seller on the Italian island of Capri, where he falls in love with a young woman with a rich and disapproving father.
- Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela his adoptive mother, a former famous singer now fallen in the dust. She has a serious illness, and they together try to get the money necessary to the right care by singing around. But one day Angela is obliged by ill to stop her activity and Gennarino decides to join a pilferers gang. He befriend with another boy Mario. When Mario dies, Gennarino finish into the jail. Here he set up a net of wrong friendships that anyway help him in some way to get the necessary money to recover Angela. But tragedy aren't over.
- The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who wants to emigrate to Naples.
- Don Salvatore Savastano, a boss involved in the smuggling of contraband cigarettes, is forced to watch four masked robbers kill his wife and his only son in a restaurant where he and his family are celebrating the young boy's first Holy Communion. From that moment on Don Salvatore has no other purpose in life but to get his revenge on the four assassins.
- Don Vincenzo is a well respected boss from Naples, but he protects people from other criminals, like gypsies, loan sharks and Don Bufalo...but as they say in Naples, a Mammasantissima either ends in jail or inside a grave.
- A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.
- Naples. The insurance company "La Proteggici", headed by the boss Alberto Rampone, uses a gang of mafia camorristi headed by the Sicilian Vito Santoro to threaten merchants and freelancers of the city in order to convince them to sign policies.
- Nino is a pianist, he runs into Valentina in the underground and falls for her. Valentina is rich but she tells nothing to Nino who is proud. Andrea was the boy of Valentina before Nino and wants to marry her for her money. Nino leaves Valentina when he finds out that she is rich while Andrea, turned down again, kidnaps Valentina...
- After a car accident in which his son Roberto miraculously remains unharmed, Don Francesco Aliprandi makes a vow to the Madonna.
- Nino is a mechanic, great fan of his hometown football team, the Naples. While the team is going to win its first championship, he will become leader of a fan club, finding problems with the local boss.