Movies: Maria Pia Trepaoli

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze....

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli....

A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her...

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with oth...

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing ...

A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets....

A man and his girlfriend struggle to find some time for themselves....

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