Mario Patanè Movies

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a...

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist...

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner...

An evening at an Italian restaurant hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various middle-class parties enter – large and small, young and old,...

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on...

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st...

Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.

What happens when two very different former elementary school classmates meet again as adults and decide to swap genetic codes to improve their...

Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From...

Cetto la Qualunque, having set aside all political ambition, is now nothing more than an entrepreneur. But the news of the worsening condition of his...

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy,...

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral.

A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple!

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to...