Dino Abbrescia

Something sinister is lurking under the surface of 10 year old Michele's idyllic summer in 1978. While the days in his remote southern Italian village are filled with the familiar routines of childhood, a chance discovery leads to a shocking revelation. (Miramax)

Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. (imdb)

Stefano, once a successful punk rock star, is now past his best times. Having lost everything, he heads home to find shelter. But at his family's country house, everything has changed.

Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love. (imdb)

The story is all about some semi-professional drug-dealers in Bari, Southern Italy. However, there is no story to speak of, but it doesn't really matter because it's all in the characters: their words, their gestures and their faces. For everyone familiar with standard Italian the very strong Bari accent ("Barese") proves very hard to understand and even most Italians will need subtitles. (imdb)

Checco Puglia is a young singer who dreams of success in show business. Angela, his girlfriend, leaves him because she wants something more stable, and build a family. Checco is in for a cold shower: sad and bitter, he leaves for Milan Puglia, hoping that the modern metropolis of the north will open the doors to success in music.

In 2061, after an energetic crisis, a fragmented and multi-ethnic Italy has fallen back into some sort of pre-Risorgimento scenario. A group of patriots, led by "The Professor", wants to reunify their country.

An exasperated husband hires a fading playboy to seduce his annoying wife in order to speed up a separation from her. (imdb)

A love story between a 15 year-old boy and a 27 year-old girl.

Se devo essere sincera è un film che è uscito nelle sale italiane l'8 ottobre 2004, diretto dal regista Davide Ferrario, con Luciana Littizzetto, Dino Abbrescia, Fabio Troiano, e Neri Marcorè. Il film è ispirato molto liberamente (tant'è che viene anche cambiato il nome della professoressa protagonista) al romanzo La collega tatuata di Margherita Oggero, pubblicato nel 2002. Il film ha incassato € 1.386.000.

Two gay men live together. One of them falls for a beautiful woman.

Ilenia, fashion blogger and daughter of an impromptu politician, and Riccardo, a conservative songwriter and singer, fall in love and subsequently decide to get married. Their families don't think they should.

In this merry movie of matrimony, happily engaged Antonio brings his fiancé Paulo to the exquisite old Italian village of his birth to meet his headstrong parents and reveal his sexuality, setting out on a quest to make a city founded on religious tradition understand that love is love. (imdb)

Ninella's daughter falls in love with the son of Don Mimì ...the man she always dreamed of marrying. Ninella's dream never became reality and history may repeat itself, when her daughter Chiara and Don Mimì's son Damiano find themselves involved in a whirlpool of different obstacles that may compromise their marriage as well. (wikipedia.org)

A man with a knack for accidentally setting off catastrophes decides to help out the people around him and proceeds to cause them even more trouble. (imdb)

A guitarist who played for the greatest italian artists but without fame, decides to disappear to become famous. (imdb)

They are actors, they live their daily dimension as if it were an anomalous time, sometimes a dead time, a time of transition from one character to the next. "Life is short but the day is very long" tells this time, stages the fragments of their lives. (pupkin.it)

Diego is a successful entrepreneur. Rich and not caring for the good of others, no scruples to belittle the next. His attitude turns against him when he forgets in his airport bathroom his latest-generation mobile phone with social profiles, contacts and credit cards. (imdb)

A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks. Italian remake of the Chilean film, 'Una Mujer Sin Filtro'. (imdb)

Led by Deputy Inspector Claudia Mares, the Anti-Mafia Squad fights crime and corruption in the troubled Sicilian capital of Palermo. In a region that is by turns gritty and gorgeous, the team works to combat the longstanding and pervasive influence of the Mafia. (imdb)