Top Cast
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Giorgio Pasotti
Fabio
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Giorgio Colangeli
Sparti
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Michela Cescon
Cristina
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Katy Louise Saunders
Emma
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Paolo Pierobon
Brunetti
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Sergio Solli
Lodi
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Paolo De Vita
Umberto Sparti
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Giuseppe Lo Parco
(as Beppe Lo Parco)
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Emanuel Bevilacqua
Saverio
Overview
An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.
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A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Riot in Cell Block 11
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
Home
Elisa, the daughter of an ordinary family, has been in prison for ten years for brutally murdering her sister. She believes she doesn’t remember what happened, but her fragmented memories begin to come into focus during meetings with the criminologist Alaoui, who is conducting a study on family homicides. The truth that emerges for Elisa is devastating—a pain that may mark the beginning of redemption.
Elisa
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Adopt a Highway
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Brute Force
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
The Girl in the Book
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
The Return
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Come Sunday
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.