Roberto Perpignani Movies

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel.

An Italian-American woman traveling to Sicily picks up a teenager who claims to be in trouble with some drug dealers.

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his...

A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy...

The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather,...

Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal...

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive....

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies...

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when...

A David di Donatello-winning short film about a junkyard keeper, in love with the portrait of the Mona Lisa, who is charged with teaching a young...

A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming...

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.

The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of...

After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's...

Mr. Rossi lives in a small town. He works in a large financial company and is considered to be rather original and eccentric by his colleagues...

In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L.,...