A man gets caught up in a criminal organization and finds that once in, you can't get out.
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A man gets caught up in a criminal organization and finds that once in, you can't get out.
Dario, recently retired, suffers from inexplicable crying fits. One day, he decides to visit his son Mimmo, who has just started working away from home. Mimmo, embarrassed by the unexpected intrusion, avoids the meeting. Dario spends the day with Clara and Mirco, Mimmo's flatmates.
South of Italy, XIX century. A couple of brigands are chased in the woods. The man has a bounty on his head and is terrified by everything, while the woman takes care of her newborn. They will be safe beyond the river, where they are going to abandon their son to some gang members in order to run faster. But the woman secretly hides the desire to keep the baby...
Short film.
Thirteen-year-old Giampiero is the teenage son of a decaying family. He gets to know Romana, a girl of his age, and they fall for each other. The trouble is that Romana lives in a Romani settlement set up near the block where he lives. Now, the coexistence between the travelers and the sedentary population is not without problems, so much so that violence winds up erupting. On the other hand, Romana's father is forced, to honor a gambling debt, to sell his daughter to a traveling merry go round owner. Giampiero, then decides to go in search of Romana and to elope her, as they had promised to each other...
Madly in love with her master Marcellus -- a love that is unrequited -- ancient Roman slave Syrra scorns the genuine affection of Affrus, a fellow slave.
Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.
Adele, a twenty-five year old girl who suffers from mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under the protective wing of her mother Margherita. Everything changes when her very existence is overturned by the latter’s sudden and unexpected death.
An Italian film from 1956, directed by Silvio Siano.
An unconventional biopic about the legendary Tuscan bandit Tiburzi, who became a peasants' hero in the late nineteenth century
In a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome the crime, drugs and graffiti are pervasive. A large apartment complex seems to be a prison for the inhabitants. Marco returns to the hood after serving time in prison for dealing drugs but he's rejected and abandoned by his wife. His old friends still want him to deal cocaine for them. At first he's reluctant but it seems to be all he knows to do. Faustino, Massimo and Federico are delinquents who hang out together while doing drugs, petty crime, and looking for sex. Sonia is different from the rest because she studies and works all the time but even Sonia won't escape without being a victim. A tragic incident brings the main characters together and leaves behind a trail of fire, blood and violence.
One evening, Alma comes home rather upset. She has experienced what happens to many teenagers in life: betrayal. The boy she is dating, Davide, who is a few years older than her, has cheated on her. Lucio and Anna Maria, Alma's parents, immediately take their daughter's side, trying to convince her that in the end it is for the best. Until Alma confesses that she has done something a little risky.
A Donatello award nominated short film about a family who grow up and develop between 1952 and 2008.
The god of fire, Hephaestus, nails the rebel Prometheus to a rock in Scythia (between Poland, Kazakhstan, and southeastern Ukraine) under the watchful eye of Cratos (Power) and Bia (Force). Prometheus is punished for giving fire to mankind.
Vincenzina is a courageous woman, president of a charity association: her story is intertwined with that of Beatrice, a girl who lost a leg in an accident. When Beatrice's desperate mother turns to Vincenzina for help, the woman decides to intervene, triggering a journey of memories that leads her to confront her own painful past.
Margherita and Veronica are with their adoptive brother Diego in the house where their mother died: pending resolution of the inheritance they will discover a dark secret linked to their family.
A man wakes up from a coma that has lasted since 1984.
Roberto Biasetti and a friend are unjustly sentenced to sixteen years in prison for murder. The true perpetrator of the crime is a man named Maremmano, who happens to be in the same cell. Released after a partial pardon, he feels indebted to the two men and to Roberto's girlfriend. He returns to prison and confesses his guilt.
A toreor is happily married to a young and pretty lady, whose charms have aroused the passion of another toreor, who forces his attentions upon her. She is compelled, by threats, to write a note to her husband, saying she does not love him. The husband enters, and reads the note. In spite of protestations of innocence, he refuses to believe her and tells her to leave his home for ever. Shortly after, a great bull-fight takes place, in which the guilty toreor is wounded. Repenting of the misery he has caused, he sends for the husband and confesses all, and the latter, repentant of his jealous conduct, seeks out his wife, and happiness is restored.
Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth
An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change.
Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
A lost Italian village around the Mediterranean Sea. The annual fair. All the locals gather on the beach waiting for the arrival by sea of a traditional illuminated statue, the Stella Maris. The story of a craftsman and his daughter, a blind mayor, fireworks fusing like weapons and street-art as a revolution.
Arriving in Bangkok, former boxer Marco Boschi meets Fabio and Andrea to organize the delivery of a cargo of heroin to Italy
The exemplary story of one of the most important pioneers of the Italian publishing industry who, with his vision, brought books and reading into the homes of all Italians.
Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
The three Sarracino siblings haven’t seen each other in 10 years. Ray, the youngest, has finally managed to bring his two sisters - Michelle and Miriam - to Italy, where he lives with Renzo, who is a recognized artist. Their grandmother confided to Ray that Miriam is a bit "strange" again lately and that maybe a holiday could be good for her. Miriam’s arrival brings a strange atmosphere to the house. When Miriam reads an old self-help book stolen from a bookstore, she is convinced that she is really connected to a greater force. Her enthusiasm attracts the attention of Renzo’s eccentric aunt, Carlotta, who tries to organize a group of followers around her. Soon Ray, Renzo and Michelle are catapulted into the phenomenon of "Santa Miriam". While Renzo is increasingly entranced by Miriam’s teachings, Ray and Michelle are weirded out by her newfound popularity. Finally, Miriam ends up in hospital firmly convinced that her illness
Henry Davis and Zelda are a couple with peculiar sexual tastes. In order to have more freedom, they send their daughter Ingrid to study in a school away from home. They have a relationship with Ursula but, after some time, when they get tired of her, they involve Christian and his wife Clarissa in their erotic games. When Ingrid comes to spend some time home, her presence becomes the catalyst of profound transformations.
A early film adaptation of "The Rape of the Sabines" which is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken place in 750 BC, in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word "rape" is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means "abduction" rather than its prevalent modern meaning in English language of sexual violation.
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
Attilio is a 50-year-old man who works as a gravedigger in a hospital. Deeply in love with a nurse, to whom he writes letters every day that he can never deliver.
The story of two boys, one gay and the other homophobic, who are seemingly different from each other and find themselves living together. Over time they learn to appreciate each other, help each other, and go beyond appearances.
A devoted father working in film shares a magical bond with his daughter, but as she enters adolescence and falls into addiction, he takes her to Paris in a final effort to save her and their fading connection.
After winning in battle, Commander Macbeth receives a prophesy that he will one day become King of Scotland. Influenced by the whisperings of his wife, he literally stops at nothing to fulfil the prophesy. But racked by guilt, the Macbeths soon sink into delusions and become victims of their own thirst for power. Anna Netrebko reprises her electrifying portrayal of Lady Macbeth opposite Plácido Domingo at the Berlin State Opera. Maestro Daniel Barenboim leads the opera icons along with the Staatsopernchor and Staatskapelle Berlin.
In the early 1980s, Italian auteur Sergio Leone sets out to make his most ambitious film to date, Once Upon a Time in America.
The film tells the life of Giorgia Righi, the strength of life despite the adversity of the disease.
Pia de' Tolomei, despite being in love with Ghino Perticari, was forced to marry a nobleman from Siena who, when he discovers her love for the other man, has her locked up in a tower.
Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a terrible car accident on the way home, leaving her disfigured. Yet what might well seem to be the coup de grace for Bella’s career turns out to be the perfect occasion to relaunch her own image...
1989 film For Women Only
The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution...
Greta is forced to accompany her newly separated mother to a party. For the first time, she will see her as a lonely woman, rather than just a mother.
Edgar works in a pig slaughterhouse. He loves opera and he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams. Edgar is about to ask her to marry him when he surprises her bedding her boss. In shock, he loses his voice and unfortunately finds himself with the voice of a pig.