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"Guilt Feelings" follows an enigmatic young man whose face is marked by a series of unspecified crimes. Throughout the short film, we enter his psyche haunted by anxiety and remorse. Each of his cigarette puffs becomes a desperate escape from the world that is falling in on him.
In the slums of Naples, a prostitute, when questioned by police about the death of one of her clients who fell from the gutter, claims it was an accident. Later the woman gives another version, accusing the owners of the boarding house of being murderers. A trial will begin that will decide which side is the "truth."
Hamid, a 25-year-old boy, survived the escape from Eritrea, with the intention of arriving in Switzerland by his brother Yemane, but Natale, a Sicilian fisherman, advises him not to continue the journey as an illegal immigrant and with his wife, they decide to host him at their restaurant, in exchange for help in the kitchen. After Hamid's long journey through Italy and numerous adversities, he manages to reach Basel ...
A captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses some completely inexplicable events that disturb him and take away the necessary serenity of mind to attend to his work, from which he feels detached. An explosion in the laboratory brings to the attention of an entire espionage network that was working to prevent the realization of the project.
I felt alone and unfulfilled. New Year's Eve turned into a time of confrontation and challenge.
A David di Donatello-winning short film about a junkyard keeper, in love with the portrait of the Mona Lisa, who is charged with teaching a young Slavic girl the tools of a much less honourable trade...
In the Venetian Republic a series of murders are carried out by a hooded man in black who always makes his escape through the city's waterways on a gondola.
It follows Gaia, who works in a funeral home and one day something unexpected happens.
A young pig slaughterer dreams of escaping from his suffocating life in the Italian countryside. In a moment of panic, he makes a break for the big city -- bringing along his girlfriend's teenage sister for the ride.
A little girl is meeting her father who is back home for three days, but he is not giving her the attention she needs. When he starts talking to a woman, the girl finds his video camera and is soon recording the world around her.
Thinly sketched portrayal of Maria, a sixteen year old girl who is resentful of her mother's decision to live with her lover. She flirts with the lover and eventually succumbs to his lust.
An Italian-style Bridget Jones moves from Piemonte to Ferrara in her grandmother's old house to escape a stalker ex-boyfriend. When Nabil, a shy refugee from Gambia, manages to make her smile again, she wrongly becomes convinced that he could be the answer to ALL her problems.
Federico celebrates his birthday in the mountains with his historical group of old friends. Despite the affection and memories of so many years spent together, Federico's mind is clouded by some doubts and uncertainties, which lead him to reflect on his relationships and on himself.
Three kids climb over the wall of an old cemetery in the Piacenza countryside and reach a boy their age, who is praying in front of a tomb. Then, they all run out and reach an ancient abandoned cemetery. Here they amuse themselves by destroying votive statues and uncovering tombstones from which they extract bones and teeth.
With humor and wit, Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom. Honing in on this seldom fully explored theme of adulthood, director Alessandro Colizzi brings us on a sincere and funny journey into life encumbered by children and the fainting sexual imagination that seems to go with it.
Everyone burdens their troubles in a little Italian village on the local pastor.
Carlo, a mediocre writer, is happily married to Sabrina and has a beautiful 9-year-old daughter. At one point, he manages to fulfill his dream of publishing a book. But things take a turn for the worse when he is invited to Florence for the presentation of his novel. Carlo falls in love with Giovanna, the publisher, to the point of asking his wife for a divorce as soon as he returns home.
An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise Sthar steals military documents, Julius is accused of betrayal. He kills himself while Elsa is forced to leave. Homeless, she begins wandering the streets until, on the Riviera, she starts her performing career under the pseudonym of Diana Cadouleur and becomes a successful actress and singer. One day, in a small church, she meets an elegant young man and she falls in love with him. But during a tour on the Lucarno Lake she runs into Sthar who, rejected by Elena, spreads rumors about Prince Massimiliano’s behavior.
A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
Vincenzo is hired by mobster Salvatore and moves to Turin with his sister Annunziata. After witnessing a mafia hit, he is sent to France. On his return he discovers that his sister is no longer working but is instead performing as a stripper in a nightclub...
Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace. Informed of the danger of an imminent popular uprising, Nero orders to set fire to the city, which he watches from a terrace, rejoicing and playing his lyra.
About the fates of two friends who got carried away with photography: one became a successful businessman and buys a steamer, the other, after serving his sentence on an unfair charge, does not expect good from the future, does not believe the present.
Two young men are training for a rowing race on the Tiber. One of them, "Marco" is distracted by a new found love.
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.
In Greek mythology Ananke is the goddess that represents the personification or power of fate. After a long wandering, a man and a woman find shelter in an isolated house in the mountains, far from society. They hope to save themselves by adapting to an essential, almost primitive life, free of neurosis and technological contamination.
Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swift's hero Gulliver.
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.
An Italian movie.
Created by Antonio Rezza using an auto-timer and edited in the video camera, it describes selfishness and one-sided relationships. The only person who listens to everyone else’s problems ends up sopressing himself before the eyes of his confidantes/ executioners.
In suburban Rome, a kid is intrigued by a mannequin abandoned in a field. The fascination for this lifeless body, will mark the discovery of a new world, made of impulses, dreams and desires.
In Venice, Daniele runs a dredge that is digging a new lagoon canal, called "The Canal of the Angels." He is married to Anna, who is much younger than him, and the two have a child, Andrea. Due to a work injury, Daniele is unable to accompany his wife to a party. There Anna meets "the captain," a young sailor who, while waiting for his dreamed boarding on a large ocean liner, works as a ticket-taker on the vaporetti that run in Venice. The captain is attracted to the woman and she, too, is not insensitive to the man's charm, so much so that the two at the end of the party embrace and kiss, not realizing that little Andrea is watching them from afar. Now Andrea is experiencing a bad relationship with his mother and this makes him ill. Anna is torn between family affections and her relationship with the young sailor. It will finally be the captain who decides to leave on the first steamer to depart, even though it is not the luxurious liner he dreamed of.
Carla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.
Amnesia soap opera about a poor young worker who has forgotten his first sweetheart in Italy after leaving for a job in the mines in Belgium and meeting another girl. What will happen when his first love finds him?
The story of two friends and a family, drawn into a reality woven with secrets and relentless twists, a journey through forbidden desires and the fragile balance of an immoral, corrupted society.
Carmine, a sewer worker for the city of Naples, finds himself working in the vault of the Bank of Naples one morning, and he gets the idea to pull off a robbery using the sewer system. To pull off the heist, he enlists the help of Gaetano, a former robber with several years in prison; the depressed Peppe "'o' Sciomen," a legend of the Spanish Quarter and also a former prisoner for robbery; the boxer Ruocco, a former professional who ended up fighting in clandestine matches; and Striano, a photographer and robber. After completing the robbery, however, Gaetano disappears without a trace with the million-dollar loot, leaving his accomplices locked in their lair, hoping to see him reappear. As time passes, strong tensions build between the four, bringing out old misunderstandings and fracturing alliances, until a new threat looms on the horizon: the powerful boss Jannone demands a share of the loot they don't yet have.
Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn than the ferocity of the men who surround them. For, as in every duel, it is a question of life or death... It’s a Sunday afternoon. The sirocco is blowing pitilessly in Palermo when Rosa and Clara lose their way in the streets of the city and end up in a sort of alley: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same moment, another car driven by Samira, crammed with members of the Calafiore family, arrives from the opposite direction and enters the same street.
Journey into the world of transvestites and transsexuals from the South of Italy who prostitute themselves on the sidewalks of Turin where they live in crumbling walkways. The result of a two and a half years research, the film consists of a continuous, almost imperceptible transition from documentary to fiction and vice versa, characterized by respect and delicacy.
The life of singer Carmelo Zappulla is disrupted by the testimony of a repentant who accuses him of being involved in a murder. This is just the beginning of a long legal ordeal that will force Carmelo to fight to prove his innocence.
The Giant of the Dolomites (Italian: Il gigante delle Dolomiti) is a 1927 Italian silent adventure film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Bartolomeo Pagano, Aldo Marus and Elena Lunda.[1] It was the last in a series of silent films featuring the peplum hero Maciste, but the character was later revived in the 1960s.
Giancarlo Giannini in his now usual role as the Prince of Soragna, a small town in the lower Po Valley, the starting and ending point of all the adventures in the series, is absorbed by the daily shaving ritual with his family barber, in this case played by the real Prince of Soragna, Diofebo Meli Lupi. A dear friend, the Italian tenor Vittorio Grigólo, arrives breathlessly and asks the Prince, who is half Neapolitan, for advice on the best rendering of the famous song "O Paese d'o Sole" with in the background the version by Roberto Murolo, the unmistakable voice and sophisticated performer of the tradition. The difficulty is obviously not technical for the great tenor but lies in looking for that expressivity and passion in interpretation that has made this musical form, deriving from great Italian melodrama, one of the best loved in the world.
Giovanni, a young boy who left Sicily for Bolzano to perform his military service , arrives five days early and is forced to stay outside the barracks before the official day of the call-up. Between surreal encounters and situations of all kinds, Giovanni is the protagonist of various events and movements from various cities and countries; however, once he returns to Bolzano, the boy decides not to show up for the call and flees to Australia where his cousin Vince lives and works.
Bartholomeo, sports attorney, lives on gimmicks and little tricks. Over the years he has wasted the many opportunities he has had, the vice of gambling has made him lose money and family and now he spends his days in the suburbs hoping to find the new Maradona. Always looking for a stroke of luck, one day he receives a phone call: in Uruguay there is a young boy, Pablito, who is a real phenomenon…
