No One Comes Back
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Elisa Cegani
Silvia Custo
Valentina Cortese
Valentina
Maria Denis
Anna Bortone
Doris Duranti
Emanuela Andari
Mariella Lotti
Xenia Costantini
María Mercader
Vinca
Dina Sassoli
Milly
Ada Dondini
Miss Lorenza
Vittorio De Sica
Maurizio
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Four friends, former 1968 student protesters who have checked out of politics and struggle to come to terms with the present, try self-criticism to figure out what to do with themselves, only to end up doing what they do best: sinking into endless talk without ever reaching a conclusion.
The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.