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Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that is capable of wringing the finest emotions out of works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky that from a lesser singer could sound rather cold and clinical. I wouldn't have thought her voice would be so well suited to Violetta Valéry in La Traviata, and it does take some getting used to, but I think she at least brings a distinct quality to the role with an emotional heart that isn't always necessarily there when a leading diva uses it primarily as a display for her vocal talents. It's served well also by Antonio Pappano's conducting of the Royal Opera House Orchestra in a traditional, but effective production by Richard Eyre.

Tutti a casa” is the real story of Maria Silvia Spolato, a university math teacher, activist, and lesbian in the 70s.She was photographed in a feminist demonstration with the "homosexual liberation" sign. She was fired and disowned by her family. She lived homeless for 40 years without ever asking anyone for anything, except sometimes a book to read.

In this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart’s opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a girl who is manically searching for Christian icons. Loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan".

Seduced by a Don Juan working for a gang of pimps, a young girl ends up in a brothel.

An Italian movie.

Investigating Marco, twenty year old found dead after a party, the story reconstructs a chain of human and emotional bonds, including friendship and its value within a small province.

Laura, a woman of a certain age with full grown children who, by all indications should be leading a great life, but actually, she appears to have none. She comes from a wealthy family. Laura has made herself a lawyer with a nice practice. Her placid existence comes to an abrupt stop when a young motorcyclist suffers an accident almost in front o her. Laura is made to take the youth to the hospital. The incident will change the way she looks at things. Laura becomes obsessed with the young man that was almost killed.

After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo. Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva, Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.

Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.

Major Briggs, one stiff upper-lipped Brit, receives a hand-to-head treatment in a North African bar. Impressed, he recruits the most skilled American specialists to help him blow up Rommel's most treasured ammo depot. Perilous desert journey awaits them, especially given an inevitable rendezvous with one immoral priest, a German nurse right beside him.

In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Armed with his field notes and loyal dog Birba, she searches for a prizewinning truffle to save his home.

Arianna works as an employee in a private broadcaster, Andrea is instead a teacher in an elementary school. The two, both in their thirties, meet at a party and Andrea has managed to conquer Arianna after having courted her in an original and pressing way. The two have been together for the past six years and have become parents of little Francesco, but now their relationship is on the verge of breaking, due to misunderstandings and jealousy scenes that lead them to accuse each other. The couple chooses separation, but living alone after so long is not easy at all.

The film takes place over the course of a single night: the longest night of the year, between December 21 and 22 (the winter solstice), when the sun sets around 4:30 p.m. and rises the next day at 7:30 a.m. A long night in which the stories, destinies, anxieties, and dramas of a provincial town in the south (Potenza) intertwine, even if only briefly. Fifteen hours of uninterrupted darkness in which human destiny becomes exceptional, as the night causes the anchors of the day to be lost and four personal stories suddenly accelerate.

Young Dutch widow Emilie travels to a seaside resort in Italy, where she falls in love with Italian officer Aldo. Meanwhile, her deceased husband's assistant Hugo plans to propose to her as soon as the period of mourning is over.

Sea Air - Massimo seeks help for his nightmares and depression. The uncles have it in for a blind choir conductor. Tizi find a dead body, which leads to Massimo and Vittoria, who wants her old job back.

At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.

Following a terrible accident at home, Elia loses his memory. His wife tries to help him through a long conversation to piece together their life and perhaps give him a chance to reinvent himself.

Vittorio Gassman brings Dumas's "Kean - Genius and Debauchery," adapted by Sartre, to television. Edmund Kean is a hugely popular and theatrical 19th-century English actor who is, however, addicted to vice and deeply in debt. He competes with the Prince of Wales, his partner in debauchery, for the wife of the Danish ambassador.

Giorgio is twenty years old, he is a boy like many others and since he was a child he loves to do two things: jump in puddles and put on make-up. He lives stuck in the house with a big secret, with his grandfather Ulisse, now forced to bed and who keeps him anchored in his past. Pushed by his best friend Ilaria, after the death of his mother Rosa, Giorgio finds himself having to make a big choice: leave and be reborn in a new body or stay with his grandfather and continue living in a bad memory?

The story of an honest young man entangled by a night singer in the Camorra.

A good husband returns home to find a man he had generously hosted, who is about to rape his wife. He lunges at him, but his wife stops him, offering him the child. The man then contents himself with chasing away the scoundrel, who - in response - shoots him with a pistol. A new fight between the two, the husband tries to disarm him, but, by turning his armed hand around, causes the other to shoot himself and kill himself. Tried and sentenced to life, the man, who is nicknamed Wolf from the famous painting of the dying wolf, will manage to escape and his revenge will be inexorable...

The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's treasure. Some are intent on the valuables, while others seek only the documents. The searchers, each working for individual reasons, are: von Brunner, an ex-officer of Rommel's staff who seeks the treasure to aid families of the fallen; Wells, a famous American news photographer out for a scoop; Mrs. Fischer, owner of a luxury riverboat nightclub, who seeks the documents for a foreign power, and Krikorian, pretending to be helping Mrs. Fischer but is really interested in making what he can for himself. Sofia, a cabaret star for Mrs. Fischer, is in love with von Brmmer and unwittingly endangers her life when Mrs. Fischer discovers she is helping von Brunner in his quest.

In an increasingly oppressive modern age, the characters of this film are subject to the alienation and meanness that characterizes today’s days.

After a year in Europe, the young Samantha, daughter of a prominent American politician returns home. She is convinced that she was sent home because she was romantically linked to Nat Brook, a black revolutionary. After one of his numerous protests against violence, Nat feels he is being followed by two men sent by her father . But in the duel that follows the young revolutionary knocks out the two stalkers . Then he breaks it off with Samantha because, beyond the his feelings for her, she is starting to feel like a burden to his protesting activities.

In a provincial northern town, Nina, a shy and insecure young gymnast secretly adores Gio, another popular and easy-going girl from the town. When Gio notices Nina's awe of him, he decides to make an adept of her, in an ambiguous and abusive game, disorienting Nina, who, subjugated, finds herself at the mercy of Gio's manipulations and whims, which will bring her to a point of no return, from which she will never be able to free herself, even by changing her life and town.

Oberdan Rossi is half Jewish and a fascist. After coming back from the Ethiopian war, he becomes disillusioned and works as a journalist.

The story of Jesus, according to the St Matthew version of "The New Testament".

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everything ends happily. Natalie Dessay as Amina and Juan Diego Flórez as Elvino deliver bel canto magic and vocal fireworks in Mary Zimmerman’s 2009 production. The Tony award-winning director transfers Bellini’s bucolic tale to a rehearsal room in contemporary New York, where an opera company rehearses La Sonnambula—and where the singers are truly in love with each other.

In order to conquer Margaretella with expensive presents, a young man called Tore steals his mother's jewels but Margaretella seems to prefer Carluccio who challenges Tore to a duel and wounds him. Forgiven by his mother just before she dies, Tore takes revenge by killing Margaretella, but even in prison he can't stop thinking to his victim.

Jessica falls in love with the wrong man, aspiring actor Al Mariotti, who abandons her as soon as she achieves success. But she tries to start over, she meets by chance an eccentric billionaire, in disguise: he is actually the great film producer James Lorrimer. The two will get married and the girl will take revenge on her ex-boyfriend

Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.

A man recruits the help of his gangster brother-in-law to retrieve his stolen car.

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

Young "Paolo" is an orphan who falls in love with the charming singer "Marisa". She hope that he will fund her new magazine, but when she discovers he has already spent all his money on her, she rejects him. Desperate, he does something of which he will soon be ashamed.

Between Lazio, Taormina and Morocco is the story of Ettore, a young Italian soldier kidnapped in Lebanon after an act of insubordination. After several months of captivity, he is freed and finally returned to Italy. His home country waits for him with bated breath, ready to hail him as a hero. The army itself wants to present him in this capacity at the Taormina Film Festival. But the protagonist has only one wish: to disappear and leave the past behind. However, his expectations are not pandered to, and the soldier is entrusted to a TV writer whose job it is to prepare him for the show. And who knows, on stage Hector may discover a way to make peace with his past....

Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura, a beautiful woman who is waiting on a ship docked in the harbor. The message is from Noura's fiancé, but when Hassan sees her, he acts on an impulse, and by the end of the day he's slept with Noura. In 1973, Hassan crosses paths with Noura again; her brother is in the hospital, and Hassan happens to meet Nadia, the beautiful woman's daughter who he may have fathered. And in 2001, elderly Hassan visits Cairo and meets Ali, Nadia's son, and both are taken aback at the similarities between them.

The Reno, or Italian Rhine, may not be as renowned as its Teutonic sibling. Nevertheless, as Lorenzo Pullega’s witty and playful film informs us, the banks alongside this river, which courses through northern Italy, has its own rich and undulating history.

After the death of her husband Fausto, Stella decides to return to the house by the lake where she was born and where twenty years earlier she knew him, remaining conquered by the melancholy.

For a music competition, Franz, a young pianist, finds himself in an unfamiliar city. Overwhelmed by loneliness in his hotel room, his solitude takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Andrea, a fugitive on the run from the police.

Soaked to the skin, Costantino sinks into the haystack like old timber left on the shore by a stormy sea. Torrential rain has just put out the fire that in a single night ravaged Assandira, a farmstay deep in the woods of Sardinia. But the rain hasn't quenched the pain, the endless remorse for the son lost to the flames, the son he was unable to save. The first to arrive are the carabinieri and the young investigating magistrate: Costantino tries to tell them what happened the previous night, to explain how it all began.

Based on the novel "Il quaderno nero dell'amore" of Marilù Manzini, published by Rizzoli, through a diary written in a notebook, it tells the most intimate sexual secrets of three young people in search of their identity.

Neglected by her husband, a woman takes refuge in love for a young director. But he only thinks about sex and does not give her anything that can comfort her emotionally.

Rosa (Marina Suma) is a low-level worker who decides to quit a nowhere job and turn to prostitution instead, all the while living with a boyfriend who is dealing drugs for his financial support. Entering into the picture is a homosexual friend who wants a child of his own and is willing to donate a good apartment to the couple if Rosa will marry her boyfriend and bear a child. She does get pregnant, but by that time has had it with the constant presence of the homosexual, and is having second thoughts about her pregnancy.

The story of a famous middle-aged writer and a college graduate who embark on a road trip that becomes a cross-generational counterpoint.

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.

Adele is hospitalized in a psychiatric ward. A nurse attracted by Adele's body,will give vent to a violent raptus: it'll not be the only episode of abuse. With the help of a psychiatrist, Adele will be able to tell the truth.

It's 2pm. Another school day is over. Sabot, a teacher who has been expelled from the school, shows up armed with a club. A premeditated vandalism turns into a feud. Sabot rages against his colleagues who have ostracized him, but his killing spree won't spare even the boys he has always fought for.

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.

Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought.