Posso entrare? An ode to Naples

Black Gomorra

November 2018 •French

A look at the Nigerian mafia in the costal town of Castel Volturno in Italy.

Flegrea - Un Futuro per Bagnoli

March 2023 •Italian

The Secret

November 2013 •Italian

A group of Neapolitan children roam the city in search of Christmas trees. They pile up their mysterious collection in an abandoned courtyard in the Quartieri Spagnoli.

Napolitaners

November 2017 •Italian

Souls of Naples

August 2005 •Dutch

A portrait of Naples and its inhabitants, in the words of the Neapolitans themselves. Two women gossip about a woman who committed suicide; a man sells tickets for a local tombola; a woman concerns herself about her elderly neighbour. By moving from person to person, the documentary gradually portrays this enigmatic city at the foot of the Vesuvius. James Baldwin once returned a writing assignment about Naples, because he utterly failed to grasp the city. A Neapolitan says: `Naples is a kaleidoscope of thousands of different souls. Their total defines the Soul of Naples.' The leitmotif is Caravaggio's painting Seven Works of Mercy (1607), made for an aristocratic charity that still exists. The documentary mirrors Caravaggio's clair-obscure in its patterns of poverty and wealth. Age-old alleys with subdued light contrast with the glittering chic of a genteel club. Slow aerial shots and poetic texts in voice-over interweave the separate stories.

La paranza della bellezza

August 2019 •Italian

A documentary about the rebirth of the Neapolitan neighborhood Rione Sanità

Passione

September 2010 •Italian

John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song.

Arrangiarsi: Pizza... and the Art of Living

February 2017 •English

When the director's life falls apart, he moves into a 1985 VW van, gets back to his Neapolitan roots, and discovers arrangiarsi, making something from nothing.

Pino Daniele - Il tempo resterà

March 2017 •Italian

Un anno all'improvviso

June 2023 •Italian

Maradona - The rebel we love

March 2022 •Italian

Neapel

January 1960 •German

Short documentary about Naples, Italy.

Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection

October 2016 •Italian

An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorrah, his controversial book about the Camorra, the ruthless organization that has dominated the criminal underground in Naples for centuries.

When Naples Sings

April 1926 •Italian

Most likely made for the large Neapolitan immigrant population in the States, Roberto Leone Roberti’s love poem to Naples more than captures the heartache of the countless émigrés who were forced by economic circumstances to leave their homeland.

Up to Down

January 2019 •Italian

Naples. Home of the unbowed, of madmen and paupers. A city that refuses to lick anyone's boots, let alone stoop to pretense. This documentary bad trip takes us on a tour of the city's dismal suburbs and into the homes of the marginalized and rejected: a man, a girl, and a masked boxer - three protagonists yearning for something else, although they're not quite sure what. (Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019)

Song'e Napule

November 2013 •Italian

The police infiltrates an unemployed classically-trained musician into a wedding band in order to drive out an elusive Camorra boss.

Paisan

December 1946 •Italian

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

The Sucker

March 1965 •French

In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

Pater familias

March 2003 •English

Una notte

January 2007 •English