TreCamerone 2

Third part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

A coming-to-America love story about an Italian actor from Rome who finds himself stranded in New York City, and through a series of misadventures is romantically pursued by several beautiful women, and learns the meaning of true love.

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.

A time machine sends Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales back to Rome in 65 A.D., where they are captured for lion fodder as entertainment for Emperor Nero...

This film was made out of the capture of a live animation performance presented in Rome in January 2005 by Pierre Hébert and the musician Bob Ostertag. It is based on live action shooting done that same afternoon on the Campo dei Fiori where the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned by the Inquisition in 1600. A commemorative statue was erected in the 19th century, that somberly dominate the market held everyday on the piazza. The film is about the resurgence of the past in this place where normal daily activities go on imperturbably. The capture of the performance was reworked, shortened and complemented with more studio performances.

Expert interviews, dramatic reconstructions and location shooting bring to life the iconic legend of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra in this historical documentary.

A telegram-tragedy about the last days of Ovid, the Roman poet.

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and his fellow Senators has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

A writer's fantasy goes erotic ways in Rome.

Italian girls live out their passions at places in Palermo and Rome.

The young medical student Claudia falls in love with the unknown but talented painter Stefan, whom she helps to get an assignment in Rome. They both get married before Stefan travels to Rome. When Claudia visits him there, they both spend the most wonderful days. The two's happiness doesn't last long...

A tour of the city seen through the eyes of its artists, architects and poets.

With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. Filmed in Italy, Mr. Mean certainly fulfills audience expectations

An elite group of soldiers led by the courageous Claudius Marcellus are handpicked by Julius Caesar to embark on a desperate and dangerous suicide mission to destroy the Druids' secret weapon.

One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re-evangelize a decadent Rome.

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair.

Through the 8mm films and audio reels bequeathed to her cousin, it's reconstructed the story of Ignazio Fiocchi Nicolai, great creator of puzzles and lover of shooting in 8mm film and super 8. They retrace themselves the fabulous 60s starting from his first film filmed in 1959 until arriving at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico City. In the background Rome and personal and "historical" events that characterized those years. Puzzles separate the chapters.

An investigating officer is assigned to investigate few brutal murders, where he zeroes in on Ravindra, a criminal lawyer who has penchant for secretly committing murders as the mastermind behind the crime.