Matilde Piana

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

Au printemps 1940, Mussolini a déclaré la guerre à la France et à la Grande‐Bretagne. La ville sicilienne de Castelcuto est en liesse. Renato Amoroso, un garçon de treize ans, est heureux pour d’autres raisons. Il vient de recevoir sa première bicyclette et de tomber sous le charme de Malèna, une ravissante veuve de guerre qui fait tourner la tête à tous les hommes du village et attise la haine des épouses jalouses. Renato, littéralement envoûté, la suit partout avec son vélo. Mais Malèna est victime des refoulements et des convoitises des habitants de Castelcuto. Le petit garçon va trouver le moyen de l’aider, et grâce à elle, il apprendra les leçons de la vie.

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

« Corleone » (parfois appelé également en français par son titre original Il capo dei capi) raconte la vraie histoire du chef de la cosa nostra Salvatore « Toto » Riina, qui était connu par ses ennemis comme « la bête » et soupçonné d’avoir tué des centaines de personnes. Cette série fait vivre sa longue et sanglante ascension dans la mafia, de son enfance à Corleone, jusqu’à la guerre violente qu’il a mené dans les années 1980 et 90 à la fois contre les gangs rivaux et les forces de l’ordre.

In a sparse and inhospitable land, the policeman Enzo Vitello, a man with a dark past, is obsessed with "Dostoyevsky", a serial killer whom he kills with a peculiarity: next to the body, the murderer always leaves a letter with his desolate and very clear vision of the world, of life and darkness that Vitello hears resonating in him.

Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio turns his back on society and becomes a monk. While at the hermitage he tries to resist all sexual temptations before him and soon becomes known as a miracle worker. Eventually he succumbs to a young seductress and knowing he is undeserving of the adulation, leaves the hermitage to travel around as a homeless beggar.

An absurd law prevents John, an unrecognized child at birth, from knowing the identity of his biological parents before his 100th birthday. To succeed in attracting public opinion, his only hope is to obtain the complicity of Gustavo, the only unrecognized-at-birth centenarian alive. The only one who would have the right to avail himself of this legislation but seems to have no interest in doing so. The Most Beautiful Century of My Life tells of the meeting between a centenarian projected into the future and a young man anchored in the past and of their unexpected friendship.