Marco Aceti

Karate Man

The Night Before the Exams

Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...

I Want You

A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.

Sotto una buona stella

A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.

Ce N'è Per Tutti

Gianluca, unable to bear the world's ills, decides to climb the Colosseum and isolate himself from everything and everyone. Friends and relatives awkwardly try to reach him and get him down. It will be an opportunity for everyone to stop and reflect; his grandmother tries to convince him with her wisdom that the solution is to face the world as it is, with a lighthearted approach.

Cani di strada

A summer evening, a recently concluded rock concert, three strays in the dark of the night: an immigrant peddler with a valid residence permit expiring, an unemployed anarchist and Leila, a firefly without light. Their story is cut short by the senseless violence of two Nazi skins. But friendship continues to run in a yellow van, emblem of their freedom ... beyond darkness, beyond death.

Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale

While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.

The Salamander House

A famous Italian-American writer of horror novels goes to Italy to spend a few days in an old house on the coast. The history of the house begins to manifest itself with hallucinations, which the writer notes as ideas for his novel. He then meets some locals who tell him the story of a cult who came to the house in the 1970s to build a temple dedicated to Satan.

Letter H

Lettera H tells the story of Patty "Todaro" and Seba "Aceti". They love each other, despite the age difference. Seba is 37 years old, with a past made of petty crimes, and with Patty they share a passion for vintage 80's. Patty, to celebrate Seba's upcoming birthday, organizes a theme party with her closest friends. For the occasion, Seba has polished with great love a second-hand FIAT 127, a super mini car bought at a court auction. It's a seemingly perfect evening, everything goes as it should. At the end of the party, the two protagonists are secluded in a wood outside the city and, in the dark, as the anguish begins to rise, they feel observed by someone or something evil.

Father Matteo

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.