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.

Successful illustrator Daniele Mallarico travels to Naples to look after his four-year-old grand-son while his daughter is away for a few days. What begins as a simple babysitting job turns into a subtle psychological duel, as the child’s boundless imagination slowly unsettles him. Trapped together in the apartment, Daniele is forced to confront something far more disturbing than a mischievous child: the fear of aging and the loss of creativity. Through this strange encounter, he may rediscover the power of imagination he thought he had lost.

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

“Nobody and no place is real forever”, wrote Goliarda Sapienza in Le certezze del dubbio. The story sees a writer ending up in prison following a crazy and unexpected act. While incarcerated, she meets a few young prisoners which leads to a kind of rebirth. Following her release, during a torrid Roman summer where time seems to stand still, the writer continues to meet up with the women she’d forged close relationships with and who have also been set free. A profound relationship begins which has a decisive effect on her life; a genuine bond which no-one on the outside could ever understand. This writer is Goliarda Sapienza, and this is her story, as she herself told it.

获奖：2005年意大利电影新闻记者协会银丝带奖提名最佳摄影 2004年戛纳电影节导演双周单元 介绍：卡罗和希尔维娅结婚20年了。卡罗有个年轻的情妇，跟她在同居；而妻子希尔维娅则住在罗马的家中，卡罗只是偶尔经过。夫妻两人间有种强烈的爱怜和深刻的理解，但当希尔维娅也给自己找来个年轻暴力的小情人时，两夫妻的关系到了最紧急的关头。这意味着一场情欲角力赛即将展开。影片片名来自作家offredo Parise的同名小说。

2022 film directed by Mario Martone

天才数学家雷纳托·卡乔波利是一个性情古怪的人，他的哥哥法官卢伊季和嫂子艾米丽亚试图让他过上正常的生活，不再酗酒和放纵。雷纳托是一个饱受痛苦的人，孤独、不幸。他什么也不相信，对工作没兴趣，对政治失望，与妻子的婚姻失败。他与妻子安娜分居多年，安娜与他见面时承认自己怀上了别人的孩子，但她打算去做人流。她请求雷纳托原谅自己，重新开始生活。雷纳托拒绝了她，因为他们彼此伤害太深了。为了帮助安娜，他给了她一张巨额支票。雷纳托厌倦了生活，在大学里教书和考试都成为他的负担和烦恼。晚上他长时间在拿波里的穷街陋巷里游荡、酗酒，以此打发最后的时光。他还去疗养院看望了姑母，巴库宁的女儿，姑母劝他别再喝酒了。后来他在一个深夜拿出手枪自杀了。参加他的葬礼的有教授、学生和政治家们，安娜独自在一旁哭泣。

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.

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 the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.

影片改编自爱德华多·德·菲利波创作的同名舞台剧，讲述那不勒斯是安东尼奥·巴拉卡诺的家乡，安东尼奥又是阿德里尤尼萨尼塔的市长，这位年轻、充满活力还喜欢文身的市长总是依照自己的规则来做事。

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his son's, young Eduardo De Filippo.

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

1995 film by Mario Martone