Mario Patanè Movies

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner...

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a...

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist...

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on...

An evening at an Italian restaurant hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various middle-class parties enter – large and small, young and old,...

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to...

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st...

Cetto la Qualunque, having set aside all political ambition, is now nothing more than an entrepreneur. But the news of the worsening condition of his...

What happens when two very different former elementary school classmates meet again as adults and decide to swap genetic codes to improve their...

Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy,...

When an unemployed young man finds himself in dire straits and up to his eyes in gambling debt, he believes the only solution is to become a drug...

Alex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral.

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple!

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

A young couple a few days before the wedding. She is caught by an identity crisis, gives up everything and finds refuge in a New Age community. Here...