The best Antonio Pennarella’s movies

Antonio Pennarella

Antonio Pennarella

27/05/1960- 24/08/2018
Today we present the best Antonio Pennarella’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Antonio Pennarella’s movies.
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Song of Napoli

Song of Napoli
6.8/10
Young musician becomes an undercover agent and is asked to join a neomelodic band in order to allow police to get their hands on an elusive camorra boss.

Perez.

Perez.
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/10/2014
  • Character: Assistente Procuratore
Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

Noi credevamo

Noi credevamo
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 12/11/2010
  • Character: Prison warden
1828. In the wake of the fierce repression of revolutionary movements in monarchic Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

Those Happy Years

Those Happy Years
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/10/2013
  • Character: Rossi Zoldan
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
7.2/10
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

A Holy Venetian Family

A Holy Venetian Family
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/02/2015
  • Character: Gennaro
Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady world of the Neapolitan mob.

Red Moon

Red Moon
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/06/2001
  • Character: Libero
Italian filmmaker Antonio Capuano writes and directs the grueling gangster drama Luna Rossa (Red Moon). Aging Tony Cammarano (Italo Celoro) is the patriarch of an organized crime family, but his son Amerigo (Toni Servillo) runs most of his operations. Amerigo is a killer who invites his mistress, Rita (Lucia Ragni), to live in the family house. Meanwhile, his wife, Irene (Licia Maglietta), has an affair with mob henchman Egidio (Antonino Iuorio), who fancies the Cammarano's teenage daughter, Orsola (Antonia Truppo). This leaves Irene to eye her own son, Oreste (Domenico Balsamo), who has taken to self-mutilation. Luna Rossa won the Wella Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival.

The Major Fisherman

The Major Fisherman
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/02/2016
  • Character: Claudio Vassallo
In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

Natale col boss

Natale col boss
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/2015
  • Character: Scassacapa

L'attentatuni

L'attentatuni
5.1/10
  • Release: 20/05/2001
  • Character: Gino Guarnera
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.

The Vesuvians

The Vesuvians
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1997
  • Character: (segment "Il diavolo in bottiglia")
Five Italian directors -- Pappi Corsicato, Antonietta DeLillo, Antonio Capuano, Stefano Incerti, Mario Martone -- contributed a quintet of short films depicting life in Naples under the shadow of the volcano for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary on the Italian left. Shown at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.

Take Five

Take Five
5.9/10

Due soldati

Due soldati
5.5/10
A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with the Camorra.

Upon My Skin

Upon My Skin
3.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/11/2003
  • Character: Durazzo
On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.

Mario's War

Mario's War
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/2006
A judge decides to take a difficult child, Mario (9 years old), from his family and entrusts him to a couple of unmarried forty-year-olds. For the three of them, living together is difficult and painful, since the couple and the child come from two separate realities. As relief from solitude and displacement, Mario creates his own world, where he meets Schad Sky, an imaginary playmate.

Nato a Casal di Principe

Nato a Casal di Principe
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/2017
In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While he's making his debut, his younger brother Paolo is kidnapped by armed men. Amedeo comes back, this return being an infernal descent into his past and his region's contradictions.

Vite a perdere

Vite a perdere
8.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/10/2004
  • Character: Cardoso

The Butterfly's Dream

The Butterfly's Dream
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/03/1994
  • Character: Lo zingaro
This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young classical actor's decision to stop talking. No one knows why Massimo has vowed to stop talking. Other than speaking dialog from classical plays, Massimo refuses to say a single word. His father, a classic-literature professor believes it reflects to a disappointing love affair. His new girlfriend thinks Massimo is rebelling against his mother, a poet. A director learns of Massimo and commissions his mother to write a play about him. Though Massimo plays himself in the play, and does speak, he returns to silence when the play is finished.

Nella terra di nessuno

Nella terra di nessuno
6.2/10
  • Release: 21/09/2000
  • Character: -

Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea

Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea
7.7/10
  • Release: 27/06/1997
  • Character: Tonino Gioia
Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Christian martyr Artema. This historical drama is intertwined with a modern-day story of a poverty-stricken family, forced by earthquakes during the '70s to move to the country, a devastating blow to the close-knit family. After a 1997 Venice Film Festival screening at 125 minutes, the filmmakers announced their plans to re-edit to a shorter running time. Also known as Moonspins Between Land and Sea.

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