Roberto Alpi

There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

La posta in gioco

Despite the excellent ratings, after twelve successful years a popular Italian soap opera is in danger of being canceled. Taking advantage of a period of non-filming, a group of actors - who have now become a real family thanks to the time spent together on the set - decide to join their colleague Roberto, their leader, on a small paradise island where he owns a vineyard. .

The teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his father's client.

The Entrepreneur

Allullo drom

A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadentismo, was beginning to take shape, the film focuses on D'Annunzio's life when he was already an established poet and journalist in Rome. A staunch opponent of democracy and commoners, he searches for passion and pleasure among the wealthy and noble. One such noblewoman Elvira Fraternali Leoni, serves as the muse for his first novel - The Pleasure (Il Piacere).

Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt her.

Purché finisca bene - Una scomoda eredità

Italian TV mini series

Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono

Lo zio d'America is an Italian television series.

The series tells the stories of some of the characters who work or are related to an imaginary shopping center Centovetrine, located in the center of Turin. There are many stories of love and passion, but also struggles for power and dynastic quarrels in the telefilm.

Alice Mancini, the young German wife of the Italian ambassador in Berlin, Mario Mancini, unexpectedly meets her husband's younger brother Vittorio who is presumed dead. Vittorio makes several mysterious references to the fate of Mario's first wife Alma, who apparently committed suicide ten years previously. Her curiosity aroused, Alice starts doing some research - but gets no answers either from her husband or his family. Several warnings later, when Alice still won't stop digging up the past , she suddenly finds herself the subject of an evil and complex intrigue: she is suspected of murder, and is forced to flee.

Follow Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan to find work--and much more--at a newly opened department store: The Ladies' Paradise.