Fabrizio Laurenti
2021
Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli
Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli
The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci's Western "Django," adored by Quentin Tarantino, are intertwined in a portrait of an unsung postwar provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro). The creative doc is also a prism into an unexplored territory of Italian — and by extension global — pop culture and its unique vitality.
Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli
La stanza accanto
Fabrizio Laurenti
Mark Benninghoffen, Thomas Patrick
Martin Yakobowsky is a brilliant lawyer whose family originally comes from Poland. He is assigned by his legal practice to resolve a contentious case in the prevalently agricultural town in the heart of Iowa, where he was born. After his initial reluctance, due largely to his having cut off all ties with the community of his birthplace, Martin decides to return to the town.
The Room Next Door
Delitti Imperfetti
Fabrizio Laurenti
Gioele Dix, Dalila Di Lazzaro
A psychiatrist is murdered and a rich heiress fears her disturbed lover will be implicated as the killer. She hires an ex-lover lawyer friend to help her defend him but when he turns up dead, the lawyer realizes he´s in over his head.
Imperfect Crimes
Baci rubati: amori omosessuali nell'Italia fascista
Fabrizio Laurenti, Gabriella Romano
Luca Ward, Francesco Baj
Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.
Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy
Cherchez la femme
Fabrizio Laurenti
Gioele Dix, Florinda Bolkan
In Perugia, Luca, a lawyer investigates mysterious facts that happened in the city and even got emotionally involved. The rather complicated cases are those of a jealous murderess girl, of a surgeon who kills a colleague who had helped him to face a dangerous intervention to become a woman, of a plumber who is suspected of murdering an heiress while the real guilty is the nephew who would like to take possession of a huge fortune.
The Blonde in Black
