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Pina Acciai, a fortune teller dedicated to usury, is found dead in her apartment with her skull smashed in. The police try to shed light on the matter and discover that all the tenants of the building could have a motive.
An iconographically already dead Christ, who assails life and goes astray, performing miracles with only the power of despair. In Antonio Rezza's reinterpretation, Jesus Christ never utters a word and expresses himself only with heartbreaking screams, capable of healing man and performing all kinds of miracles.
A paralyzed young woman falls in love with her cousin's boyfriend without ever seeing him, only through his relative's descriptions. After her death, the girl comes down to earth to spend an evening with her lover. The latter promises to follow her soon.
This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.
Originally shot in the summer of ’79 and released in May ’80 under the title of “La Strega nuda (The Naked Witch),” it tells of a young man (Danilo Micheli) who is tempted to a weird house by an ugly witch (Anna Massarelli) where he encounters a group of surreal characters in surreal circumstances. More a film of images and sensations than a cohesive storyline – including arresting shots such as the witch mutating from ugly to beautiful while circling Micheli, and the lead character foreseeing his own funeral escorted by bikers
Elvira, a 70 year rich and spoiled bourgeois womans and Antonio, a rough plumber of twenty years are united in a majestic 900’s Art Nouveau villa by a great love for art and painting. Elvira invests in Antonio’s talent to launch him as a painter but in a crescendo of passion and anger, an unusual destiny awaits them.
Two ladies seem interested in a familiar face across the street.
Ana is confronted by the monster of anxiety, born from a growing sense of inadequacy. As her obsession with perfection intensifies, she begins to withdraw from the world, avoiding every situation that might expose her flaws. When she reaches her lowest point, it is the quiet support and unconditional love of her mother that help her see the beauty and strength hidden in her own uniqueness.
A group of young people living on a mountain farm must come to terms with the death of a goat, a symbol of a community project that is falling apart. The loss of the animal, which Nicola experiences as a personal tragedy, triggers a series of conflicts among the group members.
In a remote mountain village, the ritual of the chain of time occurs every year: here, a child, chosen by the Priestess, must deliver her the symbol of the childhood.
A diamond heist with colorful characters and crisp cinematography, the humor is best described as unsophisticated Terence Hill and Bud Spencer larks complemented by crude animation, a bright and jazzy score by Cavallone regular composer Franco Potenza and a bevy of stunning women: Maria Pia Luzi, Beryl Cunningham, Magda Konopka and Claudie Lange.
A shepherd, answering the question of some tourists why the ruined castle near which they were standing was named "Satan's Castle," tells them the story on the screen.
Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back the winning team of director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, while the music is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. In the title role, the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, joined by Luca Pisaroni, Kate Royal and the young Russian soprano Anna Samuil.
A principal and teacher conspire to protect their students from an invisible predator lurking inside their school. Based on a true story.
On the phone with a rich man whose son he has kidnapped, with whom he hasn't had contact for fifteen years, the kidnapper gives him the chance to save his son's life and rebuild their relationship.
Clotilde, wife of lawyer Giulio has just returned from an extramarital affair that ended badly: the only bond she still has with her husband is the hope of finding their daughter. The house is bursting with gossip and rumors. One day comes news about their daughter.
Saetta take the side of a young couple threatened by a gang of criminals led by Goliath, a gigantic thug.
A colossal epic film like this that tries to depict the life and glory of Julius Caesar, must have a variety of scenery appropriate to the film's hero. This includes the Senate and its conspirators..or .. strange places beyond Rome full of barbarians that must fall under the Rome yoke. Let's not forget the sequences depicting the masses mentioned before.. or.. the human side of Caesar and his troublesome relationship with his son Brutus.
A few teen and youthful protesters in Iran, after being arrested by the governing regime, are offered forced labor in lieu of imprisonment. They go on a terrifying mission in the dark of night.
MADE FOR THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT: Fabio Ansaldi is a former musician, artist with great genius, who has now decided to be an administrator condominium: he is interviewed. During the interview there is a copovolgimento of roles. The artist will impart The tasks to be performed by interviewers with the aim of giving them an artist experience.
Ludovico is an arrogant boy who grew up in the comforts and vices among money, parties, and excesses: he has known every wealth except that of the soul. Filippo is a young man who faces all suffering, poverty, and abuse in order to grow up. the former has the urge to possess a phony independence, the other feels the need to fail to respect his own body and values in order to survive. their encounter will mark the rest of their existence.
Three middle-aged women realize they are not with their ideal partners and they decide to be alone.
Miriam is the 17-year-old daughter of Egyptian parents. She lives with her mother and her sisters in Milan and like them, she has a small cross tattooed on her wrist, the identifying sign of the Orthodox Coptic community. For Miriam, that cross is becoming heavier and heavier, like her responsibili- ties with the family, from which she tries to escape seeking a foothold in her group of friends.
Episode of the series "7 Sins", set in a dystopian society, a man lives with his lover doing his job, but when he tries to break the rules he will have to pay a high price.
Animated film inspired by the true story of little Enaiatollah Akbari, which tells the story of a child fleeing from the Taliban.
A young man wakes up in a meadow to find a corpse beside him. He doesn’t know who it is, but he must uncover the body’s identity and how it died.
The father is a complete stranger and the mother an alcoholic unable to raise a child. For this reason, Christian is forced to fill the role of parent for his younger brother Giulio. He wants to make sure Giulio goes to school every morning. Unfortunately, he also has to go to work at the same time. Thus the ordinary becomes extraordinary for the two brothers.
Simon (O.E. Hasse) fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), but now he is an old man, readying himself for death. His daily life is filled with memories, reveries, feelings, and small but meaningful encounters; these are the stuff the film is made up of. Some of the musings are of a hallucinatory nature, as when he meets with a tramp during imaginary walks. Others are more ordinary, as when he interacts with his son's family or enjoys looking at the pretty women in the building across the street.
During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.
In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die
Christina and Francesca Comencini go on a pilgrimage to Agen, France to find the places where there Dad Luigi Comencini spent his childhood.
“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, probably in 463 BC."
A short film by Paolo Sorrentino and Stefano Russo.
Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs.
Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion.
Live performance from La Scala in Milan. Nabucco was the first production of the theatre's 1986-87 season.
A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).
A long phone call, the end of a love story. The female protagonist prowls her apartment like a wounded feline, while the male protagonist wanders through the streets of a small town, encountering intrusive acquaintances. A painful, lacerating dialogue that is at the same time tragicomic, constantly balanced between laughter and tears.
A young thief and a burglary gone bad. Among the stolen goods, an object attracts his attention: no gold, no silver and no ancient relics, but something much more precious that is worth giving back.
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.