Luca Lionello Movies

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

August 1991. As post-Communist Albania starts falling apart, Giorgio seeks refuge in Italy.

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and...

To help her financially struggling mother, a teenage girl turns to escorting and meets a wealthy man who makes a proposal she can't refuse.

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to...

Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to...

Bota (Albanian for “the world”) is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here...

In 1917, Gino Montanari, an elementary school teacher from Romagna, was forced by the principal of his school to volunteer for the First World War...

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of...

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's...

The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress...

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.

In the summer of 2010 the peaceful Italian coastal town of Porto Ercole became the scene of a momentous discovery.

In the city of Rome, Mirko Reggiani is not only a university student who can't happily graduate from the university but also an amateur and only one...

Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls...

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview,...