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Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo Bene dedicated to his friend Gilles Deleuze, who wrote a book about it before even seeing it. Bene strips down the original Shakespeare play to the core, rejecting plot and characters, leaving on stage only Riccardo III and his ghosts, the female characters. The TV version is characterized by an exstensive use of close-ups and strong light contrast.

Italy, 1327. The open-minded scientist and astrologer Cecco d'Ascoli is appointed advisor to the Duke of Florence. A decision that arouses envy and hatred among the court's former favorites...

Five patients suffering from serious mental disorders, after therapy carried out at the mental health department, are entrusted to the care of Carmen who has the task of helping them resume a normal life and reintegrate into the social and working context. All of them go to live in the apartment where they are distrusted by their neighbours, intimidated by their strange habits. Only four of them will be able to regain possession of their lives, overcoming the dark tunnel into which their mind had fallen.

Documentary of the show theatre "Small Moral Works".

An author who falls in love with a girl gets haunted by the ghost of the dead lover of the girl's mother.

The plot revolves around a mysterious murder that occurs during a storm, with the victim found in a room locked from the inside. The investigation focuses on a group of people, each with their own secrets. The solution to the crime is tied to an ancient artifact, the "Judas Eye," which plays a crucial role in solving the mystery.

A poor Native Hawaiian buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes.

After being fired for suspecting illegal toxic waste trafficking at her company, a secretary falsely accuses her superior, Marc, of sexual harassment on the radio. This lie drives Marc's fiancée to suicide, while simultaneously, the company owner frames the unsuspecting Marc for the illegal trafficking to cover his own tracks as the police close in.

The film tells of old Antonio, 81, who refuses to stay in a mental home and walks away. He hits the streets to give a message to people: be yourselves, tell what you think, make love and stop with violence against the weaker members of society. When he realizes nobody will listen, he tries to take his life by holding his breath, but he doesn't succeed.

Pasquale Lojacono moves into a large flat with his wife Maria following a special agreement with the owner: in exchange for free accommodation, Pasquale must dispel rumours that the house is haunted by ghosts. The protagonist begins to receive regular sums of money from spirits who, according to him, are particularly generous and supportive towards him. As time goes by, however, it turns out that the source of his fortune is a ghost who, having become Maria's lover, wants to silence him and plan an escape with her. Added to this unusual love triangle are the doorman, his sister and the lover's family, each of whom, in their own way, exploits the rumours of ghosts for their own gain under the gaze of Professor Santanna, who observes and comments on the inexplicable events with Pasquale from the window of the flat opposite.

This was a special episode of the Italia 1 Studio Aperto broadcast, commented by Gialappa's band and conducted by Felice Caccamo (the character played by Teo Teocoli in Mai dire gol) and Epifanio (the character played by Antonio Albanese in Mai dire gol) in which commented on the sporting events of 1994.

Alessandra Del Giudice, a successful lawyer with a few too many problems in the family, ends up in a coma for seven years following a road accident. When she wakes up she finds her husband waiting for her, who had just given permission to pull the plug on her life support, and her sister, who arrived at the last minute just in time to discover that Alessandra had lifted a finger and was about to reopen the eyes! Upon awakening, the worst surprise for the woman, however, is to discover that her son Yanneck has recently killed himself by jumping from a balcony. Convinced by a nightmare in which she sees the boy not jumping but being pushed by someone, she decides to investigate to understand what really happened.

The story begins with the mysterious death of a foreigner in Rome. The man, who has just found traces of his wife disappeared four years earlier, is killed. His wife reappears and she is involved in an espionage affair.

The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up, giving rise to a mysterious investigation.

To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.

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.

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

Rome, 1977. Luciano Baccarini, married to the rich Irene Oro, is murdered at home while preparing a romantic dinner on the terrace for his lover. The investigations immediately focus on the man's private life.

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising of the population and a cruel war that lasts several years and causes thousands of deaths, a catastrophe described in detail by the Romanized Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus.

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria.

Poli Ugo, investigator of the Police Headquarters, after an accident that leaves him lame is relegated to the archives by his superiors. To take revenge for the treatment he has suffered, he secretly withdraws unresolved files from the archive, investigating and solving cases on his behalf, without communicating the result to those in charge.

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

It's a night like any other for Captain Marco Giordani, or so he thinks until Silvia has a fight with her companion and ends up alone in the middle of the station square. Giordani offers to help her, and soon finds himself entangled in a murder case.

Beniamina, the Befana, has to confront an evil "anti-Befana", who's sowing discord to the fairytale world and stealing children's dreams.

The story about Mirella Antonione Casale who got inspired by her handicapped daughter to lead the fight for including all pupils in public schools in Italy.

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.

From the Donizetti Theater, an opera inspired by Raffaella Carrà. Music by Lamberto Curtoni, libretto by Renata Ciaravino and Alberto Mattioli, based on an idea by Francesco Micheli, director. Conductor Carlo Boccadoro.

This is an Italian made-for-TV movie starring Terence Hill

Rome. Paola Angeli, a young psychiatrist, following her recent separation from her husband Alberto Salvi, a crime reporter, moved to an apartment overlooking a large courtyard, overlooked by a series of other buildings. It is Christmas. The city is becoming depopulated. Even the courtyard that Paola sees from her windows during long sleepless nights seems uninhabited apart from the few remaining tenants. One morning, not far from Paola's condominium, the body of an unidentified blonde girl is found in a dumpster. Alberto investigates the mysterious crime on behalf of his newspaper. Paola has the impression of having seen a blonde girl with a pair of very showy earrings enter building C the previous night. but Romolo, the building's doorman, excludes him because the tenants are all away on holiday.

Arianna works as an employee in a private broadcaster, Andrea is instead a teacher in an elementary school. The two, both in their thirties, meet at a party and Andrea has managed to conquer Arianna after having courted her in an original and pressing way. The two have been together for the past six years and have become parents of little Francesco, but now their relationship is on the verge of breaking, due to misunderstandings and jealousy scenes that lead them to accuse each other. The couple chooses separation, but living alone after so long is not easy at all.

Federica Felici is a lawyer who has always been involved in cases of small marginalized, but one day is to defend Laura Conti, which is part of one of the most important families of the city, from the charge of murder.

Life and Death of Oriana Fallaci: the greatest Italian journalist of all time who made men of power tremble with her interviews and her sharp writing.

An oceanologist born in Venice returns to his hometown because he was summoned there by an elderly colleague of international fame. When he arrives in the lagoon, the man does not find his colleague, so he sets off in search of him risking his life several times.

Peter Goodrich, an English antique dealer visiting Naples for a pleasure trip, meets the beautiful Lisa Carter by chance and begins seeing her until the woman disappears.

Girolamo, a teenager from a good family suffering from bone tuberculosis, is hospitalized in a sanatorium where he is forced to suffer the harassment of his rough roommate, sadistically backed by an Austrian nurse. To alleviate his suffering a little will be the tender friendship with Polly, a sweet English girl.

Starting immediately after the first siege of Vienna took place in the previous century narrates the conflicts that preceded the events of September 11, 1683, known as the Battle of Vienna. The film shows the circumstances of the second siege of Vienna and the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks led by Kara Mustafa against the Habsburg Monarchy: the massive attack was stopped by King John III of Poland, who managed to reduce the Ottoman expansion in the Old Continent.

Rockefeller is a tough and resilient man, who has spent his life as a cowboy in the Wild West, always without fear and without remorse. He is the head of a large family, which he leads with authority, sharp words and a passionate temperament. In the village, Rockefeller faces an alcoholic doctor, a wise wife, a generous-hearted girl and a sheriff who takes justice into his own hands.

Documentary with rich archive of films and photos along with footage from the 1962 film Le quattro giornate di Napoli depicting the uprising in Naples against Nazi occupation during World War II.

In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.

A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with the Camorra.

Antonio and Amalia are the parents of Naomi, a 17-year-old who's having her first love affair. Convinced he has passed the most complicated phase of family management, Antonio thinks he can finally enjoy life in the company of his beautiful wife but his plans are spoiled by the news of not one but two unexpected pregnancies.

Massimo Bacigalupo, in his house in Rapallo, talks about his cinema, which passed through the festivals of the FEDIC circles and then in the lively and active Rome at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. Massimo talks about his films and recalls his encounters with Mekas and Markopoulos, the fundamental one with Tonino De Bernardi, Pia Epremian and the Turin group, the vicissitudes of independent cinema in Italy and the relationship with the USA.

A horror film director, now forgotten, invites a young author who wrote the screenplay for a film, “Effetti speciali”. As long as he is remembered, the director is willing to do anything.