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Love made it Italy. Elephant in the Room. Amantea, present day. When Rita finds out that she has very little time left to live, her main concern is to fight death. She is overcome with worry about her son Gianni, who has a heart of gold, but is socially awkward and, at 40, still lives at home. Rita enlists the help of Daniela, a newcomer to town who is recently divorced and has sworn off men altogether. Daniela agrees to become a teacher for Gianni about male-female relationships, and that's when things get complicated.

This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois (Mario Barriba), a brilliant student mathematician whose republican politics and hot-bloodedness resulted in his death; it is unclear whether he died by political assassination or as a result of a duel.

The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.

A quest for the identity of the mysterious Madame Butterfly. While the farmers till the land, she waits in distress for her American love Pinkerton, who promised to be reunited with her.

Teatro Regio’s 2013 revival of their highly successful 2006 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo celebrates the 40th anniversary of the theatre’s reopening in 1973. With traditional staging and lavish costume design, the production garnered high acclaim in the national and international press, with GB Opera commending the ‘sumptuous’ setting and French online music magazine ResMusica praising director Hugo de Ana’s decision to revive the show ‘in all its splendour’. Shown here in the four-act version, Don Carlo is the fascinating tale of father-son power struggles, adultery and love that borders on incest. The cast – under the powerful baton of Gianandrea Noseda – is headed by renowned Mexican tenor Ramón Vargas, and also features Ludovic Tézier, who has been hailed as ‘one of the best Verdian singers of our time’

Paolo Riva is sick with lies. He was once a successful pop singer, famous for his song “Spumante e cioccolatini” (Sparkling Wine and Chocolates), which he performed at the Sanremo Festival in 1984. Now, however, he lives in obscurity. With his manager and best friend, Tino, he tours the Italian provinces, which, thanks to their festivals and celebrations, are now the only place that guarantees Paolo's survival.

The daughter of a gangster tries to seduce her driver.

Naples. A Virgin with bruise on her cheek who performs miracles. Three female characters, each connected to the Virgin in their own way but who never meet. Giusy, a girl in a wheelchair who had no right to a miracle; an atheist, free-spirited, and an anthropologist specializing in the worship of the Virgin Mary. Fabiana, a transsexual at the head of a troupe faithful supporters of the Virgin in a popular district of the city center. And Sue, a Korean pianist in search of a new direction for her life, teaching music to children in difficulty in a city far removed from her original culture. Each with their intimate wounds and each searching for a "miracle".

A family of wanderers adopts a girl who is left alone after getting lost. Meanwhile, his father adopts an orphan. Some time later, as an adult, the girl becomes the main attraction of the Luna Park where the wanderers work, and falls in love with the adopted son of the missing father. This arouses envy and spite from a barker from the Luna Park, secretly in love with the girl, who begins to spread slander on their behalf.

A young wanderer with few ambitions he returns to his childhood places, the hills of Perugia, to sell a house left to him by his parents. The only goal: to raise the money needed to continue enjoying life. Stuck in this wonderful place he shares his stay with the elderly veterans of the hippy community to which his family belonged. Among these there is Shanghai with whom he establishes a relationship of great affection, and which will help him get out of a big trouble.

After entrusting his creation to a large number of performers (first Eugenio Allegri, for whom the monologue was written), Alessandro Baricco has chosen to give voice himself to his most iconic and beloved character: Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon Novecento.

A man in crisis, disappointed by others and by himself.

The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.

The Beggar's Opera is one of the earliest examples of a Musical in the history of theater (from which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill drew inspiration for the Threepenny Opera). A crowd of thieves and prostitutes, fences and swindlers, speaking various dialects with Peppe Servillo as the shady fence, Angela Baraldi (the wife), Marco Alemanno and opera singer Borja Quiza Martinez (Captain Uccello) directed by Lucio Dalla. New translation and dramaturgical version by Giuseppe Di Leva of John Gay's play transported from the slums of 18th-century London to the Bologna of today.

A poor boy and his father wish to eat parmesan with their spaghetti but as the parmesan runs dry, so do their morals...

In the hills at the foot of Mount Etna, three people plan an attack on an undefined institutional centre in Sicily. Their aim: to make the island independent of Italy. A local functionary, with the same ideas in mind, is delighted by this news and organises a meeting. In the meantime, an unfortunate traveling salesman becomes involved in all of this. But the story has a surprising ending.

After his father's death in prison, a man hopes to start a new life with his pregnant wife.

A girl will receive bad news from her boyfriend.

Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists of the student movement, meetings she attends. Paula tries to convert even her teenage children Afdera and Prando, to the ideas of the movement, who end up accepting the mother's convictions and agree to participate in an action of sabotage against a large factory. But when they discover that the factory to be sabotaged is precisely that of the father, they renounce the mission, disappointing the mother.

Drama focused on two characters: an itinerant seller and a shepherd boy. Although marketed as an Italian Western it is a drama.

Gabriele is faced with a choice, to go and live in another city with his boyfriend Giorgio, and face his fears, or remain tied to his reality that is wearing him down.

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.

The student Roberta has already been failed three times by Professor Giannelli in the same exam and does not intend to suffer a fourth. To get around the problem, the girl decides to give herself to the professor, provoking and seducing the teacher.

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.

A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns to the town. He is mortally wounded by the frontier guards and they get married just before he dies.

Five teenagers decide to steal money from someone who could not accuse them of the theft. Panini, a well-known stockbroker who uses to illeg ally pass money from Italy to Switzerland, is the perfect victim.

I LOVE YOU is an award winning experimental short film about a toxic relationship and the inner conflict of a woman which decision she's gonna take.

An old man receives a letter from Mr. Nada de Nada y Nada and later a visit that will face him with an startling situation.

A young woman returns to her hometown for a brief stay, a journey that will lead her to confront her past. The homecoming becomes an opportunity to reprocess memories tied to her parents, a family marked by atypical and complex dynamics. Now an adult, the protagonist finally grasps the depth of her parents' choices, shedding new light on aspects of her childhood that once eluded her.

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.

A strange doctor.

In an endless night, two tormented lovers find themselves trapped in an emotional cycle of destructive arguments and moments of vulnerability, in which fears, insecurities, and resentments emerge; all accompanied by a touch of madness that remains, perhaps, the only lifeline for their love.

After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco’s other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself.

At the speed of light a conversation is heard, learned and remembered. Through unmeasured distances two men share stories about their travels. In the deep waters someone, wandering, dreams dream rooms where no dreams are dreamt.

Layla has a fierce journey before landing in the same city where Ettore lives. Ettore, decades earlier, had an unforgettable passage to escape war. Since then, Layla and Ettore's undead bodies cruise the city every night in search of food. Their meeting will reveal similar memories, fears, tenderness, and a desire to eternalise the youth that was stolen from them.