Rocco Papaleo

On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.

Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Edoardo Leo, Pilar Fogliati, Emanuela Fanelli

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Alba Rohrwacher

An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

Dir. Gennaro Nunziante · With Checco Zalone, Giulia Michelini, Dino Abbrescia

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Ennio Fantastichini

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

Dir. Gennaro Nunziante · With Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Rocco Papaleo

Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.

Dir. Francesca Archibugi · With Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio

A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a child. Is it really wrong to sell our own intimacy in order to be able to afford making our dreams come true?

Dir. Edoardo Leo · With Anna Foglietta, Edoardo Leo, Rocco Papaleo

A musical comedy, a journey filled with unexpected twists and unexpected encounters, leading a group of musicians to set out to the rhythm of their musical verses to participate in the Scanzano Jonico Song-Theatre Festival, walking across Basilicata, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea, along the route that gives the project its name. The journey will have a therapeutic effect.

Dir. Rocco Papaleo · With Alessandro Gassmann, Paolo Briguglia, Max Gazzè

The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…

Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Raoul Bova, Alessandro Gassmann, Michele Placido

35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history.

Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Paola Cortellesi, Raoul Bova, Rocco Papaleo

A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better.

Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Claudio Bisio, Marco Giallini, Anna Foglietta

Four thirtysomething college students share a flat in Florence: Leonardo pursues beautiful Letizia, Rocco moonlights as a night watchman, Bruno needs to graduate to inherit his father-in-law's business, and Pino dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.

Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Massimo Ceccherini, Rocco Papaleo, Leonardo Pieraccioni

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Christian De Sica

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

Dir. Matteo Garrone · With Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Marine Vacth

Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.

Dir. Luca Miniero · With Paola Cortellesi, Rocco Papaleo, Luca Argentero

In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last job: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo

Confirmed bachelor Lorenzo sees his beliefs about commitment put to the test when a gorgeous Latina deserted by her fiancée forces him to take his place in the romantic trip she had planned.

Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Angie Cepeda, Alessandro Haber

Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse belonging to the family. But Costantino does not remain far from the madding crowd for long. It does not take long indeed before all the local (or even distant) outcasts flock together there: Magnolia, a retired escort girl; Arturo, Rosa Maria's estranged husband; Valbona, a lesbian; Rosa Maria herself; and, to crown it all, two eccentric workers accompanied by a little girl... After a period of chaos, this small world gradually discovers that unity makes strength.

Dir. Rocco Papaleo · With Rocco Papaleo, Riccardo Scamarcio, Sarah Felberbaum

Dir. Luca Miniero · With Christian De Sica, Rocco Papaleo, Lello Arena

Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo

A divorced high school PE teacher falls in love with a single mom before learning that her daughter is the student who's been hitting on him between classes.

Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Giorgio Panariello, Marjo Berasategui

Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles...

Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Laura Torrisi, Gabriel Garko

Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Rocco Papaleo, Anna Foglietta

A middle-aged man finds out his late mother was sponsoring a Brazilian girl who has now become a beautiful model and tries his best not to fall for her.

Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Ariadna Romero, Rocco Papaleo

During a séance with some friends, divorced carny Gualtiero successfully conjures the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, who'll help him win his family back.

Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Suzie Kennedy, Biagio Izzo

After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.

Dir. Alessandro Gassmann · With Gigi Proietti, Alessandro Gassmann, Rocco Papaleo

Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose when a neighbor finds a porn video of him and leaves it in his parents' mailbox.

Dir. Lucio Pellegrini · With Luciana Littizzetto, Rocco Papaleo, Pietro Castellitto

Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actress. In his murky scheming, he also involves his blameless private driver.

Dir. Alessandro D'Alatri · With Paolo Bonolis, Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy