Urban Tales
Status Pre Production
Genre Horror | Mystery | Thriller
SEASON 1: ROME
BLOOD & BREAKFAST
Screenplay Umberto Lenzi
Director Enzo G. Castellari
The story is set inside a Bed and Breakfast located on a quiet street in Rome. Rooms are reserved only to students whose name corresponds to that of a Catholic Church Saint. A criminal trio manage the hotel - consisting of Sergio, a fifty-year-old former priest defrocked for sexual offenses, Ebe a former cloistered nun expelled from the order for unworthiness, and Clarissa, a former novice dominated by the couple . . .
TORTURES AND EXECUTIONS OF THE CENCI
Screenplay Ruggero Deodato
Director T.B.A.
. . . The Medium, focused and with care, places her hand on a 16th century sword. Suddenly her face stiffens, she has a chilling vision: a mace smashes violently trough a man's skull . . .
CHINESE FOOD
Screenplay Ruggero Deodato
Director T.B.A.
For now, let us call him Stefano, and his girlfriend Lucia. Both very young, she must be 17 at most. One of those couples that get together aged 14 and stick together to marriage. Lucia is pregnant and Stefano is the kind of person who wants to marry and give his future child an honest and decent family life . . .
CRUEL ROME
by Luigi Cozzi, Enrico Luceri & Antonio Tentori
Rome: today. In the desolate outskirts on the bank of the Aniene, by chance two suitcases are discovered, they contain the butchered body of a girl. The autopsy shows that she was a drug addict who had suffered a history of repeated violence against her . . .
ROME, VIOLENT CITY
Screenplay Enzo G. Castellari
Director Enzo G. Castellari
The situation in Rome is getting worse every day. This city is falling apart, it is is completely rotten, corruption and violence is everywhere... Every time we leave our homes, we have a deep fear!! Afraid even to collect the mail, to go to the grocery store, or to buy the newspapers ... But the Lords of our political parties travel around superprotected!
THE CITY REACTS
Screenplay Sergio Stivaletti
Director Sergio Stivaletti
A group of elderly friends regularly meet at a bar in a popular district of Rome. Fernando, a 70-year-old from the group, tells the others that he has once again suffered the theft of the car radio from his Fiat 124 sport, a vintage car he cares a lot about. The repeated thefts are the work of the son of a neighbourhood “Boss” who has targeted his car for fun. Fernando confides in his friend Sergio that he wants to take revenge but Sergio does not recommend it reminding him how dangerous this gang can be . . .
LA SCELTA - THE CHOICE
Screenplay Sergio Stivaletti
Director Sergio Stivaletti
After the loss of a grandchild (due to failed organ transplant) Luigi, a retired railway worker has suspicions of an organized underground industry of organ trafficking. He enlists Umberto, a former security guard (in early retirement after being shot in the leg during a robbery) to help investigate. . .
THE THIRD DAY
Screenplay Lamberto Bava
Director Lamberto Bava
A small community, just a few people left.
What occurred 26 years ago? The survivors don't speak about it, those born later want answers. Two boys, Giana and Andrea leave town to discover what the world has become. The venture on bikes: cars, cell phones, computers are no longer in use. They find the first relics of the past only vestiges of death. A newspaper on the ground, in large print is written: THE THIRD DAY . . .