Lina Sastri

This non-narrative, sketch-based film is a non-stop feast of antic and black humor. The sketches are framed within the context of a Roman student's school year, which is disrupted by political and amorous misadventures. (AllMovie)

A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal. (imdb)

A wife asks a friend to look for her missing husband. The friend discovers that the husband had led a double life and was involved in the criminal underworld and running a clandestine betting ring. (bfi)

The difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just ended WWII. (imdb)

Mario Tessadori is killed in the university where he taught. Thirty years after, the grown up daughter get in contact with the child she was, through the phone of their holiday house.

The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification. (imdb)

The film narrates the events that took place in October 1926, when a last attempt was made on the life Benito Mussolini. The film, without ever mentioning the names of the real protagonists of the story, narrates the events that led to that last attack, then taken as a pretext for the acceleration of the approval of special laws.

Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate in the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. (imdb)

A tale partly inspired by the optimistic spirit reflected in the eponymous silver half dollar issued by the Unites States Mint from 1916 to 1947. (imdb)

In Naples, Luca Cupiello and his wife Concetta, try to get ready for Christmas while their children Ninuccia and Tommasino complicate whole the preparations. Ninuccia is in love with Tommasino's best friend Vittorio and wants to leave her husband Nicolino. (Italy Magazine)