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A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness, only remembers his gang’s involvement in a robbery of a rare painting, and the mysterious Madame Jacno who commissioned Fabrizio, the gang leader, to steal the work of art. But someone is still trying to kill the patient, and as his life is continually threatened, his memory slowly comes back to him…!
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era.
Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpable. The money flows from one story to the next, from one person to the other, becoming the engine of the film.Everything moves around two antagonist characters: Ugo and Rita. Ugo is a banker involved in a not really clean business. Rita, the Finance Police officer, is a strong and obstinate woman in charge of capturing Ugo. Other characters wander around them, with their weaknesses and fragility, their goodness, their evil and their contradictions. Characters meet, clash, love and hate each other, their lust for money becomes intense feelings.
The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.
In a sumptuous villa, three young people discover their desires.
An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hiding the prisoner and two of his companions, will fall victim to the Nazis.
Daniele lost his sight after a failed eye surgery. When his sister Sara spends a weekend at his house, she notices disturbing and unexplainable behaviors in him.
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.
In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.
Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to protect him. The amulet will be the key to put him in connection with his old mother when the boy grows up.
The story of a contemporary Robinson Crusoe, stranded on a desolate beach without any comforts, begins to question whether what he once considered comforts were actually illusions. It’s a search for freedom that moves from solitude to the acceptance of beauty, from consumerist recklessness to hunting for food to survive. An inverted environment that, in the end, doesn’t seem so far from his true self.
Two boys compete in basketball on the pitch of a reformatory: Simone tries to involve Valerio who is down in the dumps and then tells him a fantastic story about the "bullfish".
On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the establishment, he is assaulted and knocked unconscious, his loot stolen. A few days later, the young croupier who had given him his winnings is involved in a motorcycle accident while avoiding a car. The investigation brings the two men together, but the millionaire's wife falls in love with the handsome young croupier. The plot begins...
Luce is a girl who lives with her father and who tries to face the normality of everyday life despite her existence has been upset by the premature loss of her mother. During his service as a volunteer palliative care assistant for the terminally ill, Luce meets Agata an elderly lady with a not very easy temper. Luce will see something in Agata that few others have been able to see and, as if to retrace the last moments with his mother, will give Agata what she needs most: "a ray of sunshine" in the darkness of illness.
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.
The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.
Piero and Elisabetta loved each other very much, despite the opposition of her parents, and had three children with whom they formed a seemingly indissoluble unit. But when the eldest, Flavio, loses his life in an accident, the family falls apart: Elisabetta and Piero glare at each other and exchange ferocious jokes, unable to overcome that tragic event and not blame each other. It is the two remaining children, Dennis and Sara, who convince them to celebrate Christmas together in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the town where their maternal grandparents own a luxurious chalet. The two children have a plan, which will however be abruptly interrupted by an unexpected event. All the family dynamics will be called into question, and will keep everyone in suspense for a long night of waiting and reflections on the past.
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and by looking after Antonio that call him Papà (Daddy). One day Valerio decide to have a trip on a house-boat with Marianna, his fiancée, and they bring Antonio with them. Antonio unexpectedly drives the boat far away till it gets stuck on a sandbank. Valerio leaves his brother and Marianna alone on the boat and goes searching for help. A storm obliges the two to spend a night together on an island. During that night Marianna discovers, step by step, the poetic and childish world of Antonio, starting to appreciate the different resources of mentally handicapped persons.
A journalist of a local television in the Triveneto decides to carry out an in-depth analysis of a story that has particularly shaken him: an attempted robbery carried out by two uncensored people, with their faces covered by two masks: that of an Old Man and that of a Chinese. Under these two masks, the journalist discovers the face and life of the two protagonists: Michele, a mechanic about to marry a Russian girl, and Lucio, a traveling florist who runs the business with his sister without particular enthusiasm.
Tairo, a young lion-tamer, is unhappy. Losing his lucky charm gives him a reason to set off for a journey across Italy in search of Arthur Robin, a former Mister Universe, who gave him the charm a long time ago.
Angela has a big revelation to make and will have to accept life's compromises.
Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.
A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.
Naples. Margherita, a singer who has always been distracted from her husband and daughter Chiara, is experiencing a profound existential crisis as she approaches her sixties. Life is not easy for Chiara either, given her conflictual relationship with Lucia, the daughter she had with a partner who is now expecting another child with a new girlfriend. When Lucia is with her grandmother, she savors the taste of freedom, and Margherita has the relationship with her granddaughter that she was unable to have with Chiara.
An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.
Nicolò, 24, returns home after 7 years. Through a path made of affections and memories his love story with Claudio and the reason for his escape will come back to him.
Anastasia is 13 and her sister Diana is 11. The two sisters live in a Latvian orphanage. When they find out that an American family is ready to adopt them, Diana cannot wait to move to the States, while Anastasia is less excited about the idea of leaving her home.
Having discovered that his son will send him to a nursing home, an old professor (Marcello Mastroianni) converses with the memory of his late wife. She encourages him to tell his son that he is sad and fearful, and does not want to move. Recording of Marcello Mastroianni’s last stage project.
A day where the void, superstition, anguish and fear will have the confirmation that a man without quality was looking for, for a long time.
On Christmas Eve, Manuela Paris returns home to a seaside town near Rome. She has been absent for some time, ever since she left - still a girl - to be a soldier. With determination and sacrifice, Manuela laboriously built the life she dreamed of, until she became an army non-commissioned officer and platoon commander in an advanced base in the Afghan desert, responsible for the life and death of thirty men. But the bloody attack in which she was seriously wounded forces her into a very different and no less insidious war: against memories, disillusionment and pain, but also against the stereotypical role of woman and victim that society tries to impose on her. The meeting with the mysterious guest of the Hotel Bellavista, Mattia, a man apparently without a past and, like her, suspended in his own personal limbo of expectation and hope, is an opportunity to come to terms with his story. And to find that life is always worth living - because nobody, not even her, is what they seem.
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men's destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who's real between the two and who belongs to the other's mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.
Acqua e anice is a “dance hall road movie” about Olimpia, a legendary ballroom dancer and a fixture at local dance halls, who, at age seventy, dusts off her orchestra’s tour bus. No tour dates, this time: she is simply setting out to see her fans, her loved ones and all the places where she became a star, once again. For the occasion, Olimpia has hired a young woman, Maria, as shy and awkward as Olimpia isn’t, to be her driver.
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.
A Donatello award nominated short drama about a young woman who returns home on her thirtieth birthday to some answer-phone messages that lead her to reminisce.
The story of Federica Angeli, reporter of the daily newspaper "La Repubblica" that investigates the Roman underworld, challenging threats and dangers.
A few years after their separation Filippo, a failed musician, and Cecilia, a career woman, meet again to sign their divorce papers. Despite an initial apparent peacefulness, their words begin to reveal feelings, problems and conflicts that time had erased. Thus begins a verbal duel that will lead the two to understand if they still know each other or have become two complete strangers.
In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled.
Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor.
Drama about a young man blinded by love.
Michele Moretti is an aspiring director who lives with his brother Niccolò with whom he manages mattresses sales; he spends his free time with his friends Francone and Giovanni and with Anna, a girl he has met and who sells paintings at traffic lights. One day he gets an interview with the director of a television network and, to make a good impression, he declares that he is Nanni Moretti 's younger brother.
When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Giuliano’s failing health and his decision to forgo treatment. Instead he is focussed on putting his affairs in order: distributing possessions, reconciling past disputes, and, most importantly, finding a home for his beloved canine, Pato. Over four days, the two men walk the streets of Rome, visiting bookshops, restaurants, veterinarians and friends, examining their lives and speculating on what the future holds.
A writer returns to the Italian town where, as a young girl, she met a man who left an indelible mark on her life.
Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way after swearing that all the other guests will be couples, except for Maxime, a gay colleague. But Maxime leaves at the last minute to join his lover in Amsterdam, and Antoine, recently separated from his wife, arrives alone at the party.
The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.
Giada and Carlo have been a couple for many years, both artists. He is a writer looking for a new story to tell, she is a dancer struggling as she directs her first experimental dance show. When Peter Drago comes into their lives, neither can imagine how much everything is about to change. Carlo is fascinated by him, finding in him a new creative inspiration, while Giada is increasingly restless, fearing that her past may come back to surface. But the truth always finds a way to emerge.