An Italian drama from 1942.
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An Italian drama from 1942.
22 July 2011. Anders Behring Breivik unleashed hell in Norway. The car bomb that killed eight people in Oslo was merely a diversion. His real target: a group of young people whom he killed one by one on the island of Utøya, the traditional venue for summer camps for young socialists from around the world. There were 69 victims.
What is perfection?
Gaetano works in the historic center of Rome. During the summer months he keeps his nephew Aurelio, a nine-year-old, as a helper.
A beautiful American music teacher arrives in Venice and encounters a licentious artist who leads her into the squalid underbelly of the ancient city into a dangerous world of sexual promiscuity. Their experimentation becomes more and more dangerous and our heroine must decide whether to continue down this path or break away before it's too late.
1944, Piedmont Alps. Four teenagers dream of the end of the war and the moment when they will be reunited with their parents and older siblings. When they discover, by chance, that their age allows them to avoid suspicion and searches, they decide to secretly help the partisans, without being discovered. Marta, Davide, Sara and Marco thus become "Sandokan", the mysterious rebel who puts the Nazis and fascists of the valley in difficulty. Between steep climbs and breathtaking descents, between enormous dangers and great tests of courage, the four children will contribute to the final victory of the Resistance and the liberation of Italy from enemy occupation. A great partisan adventure and a story of love and friendship, told from the point of view of thirteen-year-old Marta.
Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his feelings but doesn't want to get too involved because she will soon leave for studying in America. Alex gets relief in music and his friend Martino who leads what looks to him as a more complete life.
Short film freely drawn from the life of the Italian poetess Alda Merini specially designed as an installation for the exhibition at the Milano Art Gallery from 24 January to 13 February 2020, in occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death.
Set in a country church on a hot August day is an ironic and crude analysis and staging of the unwritten laws of prejudice and of meanness, in the society of appearance. In the perspective of "do it but do not say", the micro-stories of all the characters are alternated with the omnipresent co-protagonist of the story: the heat. The young bride, the greedy priest, the hedonist nun, the old women of the village, the femme fatale, the witnesses of the spouses, the relatives, the various guests and the groom himself tell with twists and sympathetic snapshots of almost Pirandellian humor timeless history where the clichés of a corrupt and indifferent society parade on the notes of the wedding march.
A man who cleans up crime scenes for organized crime discovers, during a job, a young woman still alive, hidden inside a wardrobe.
A mother feeds her son to the point of possessing him.
A forerunner of Al Primo Soffio Di Vento. Observations along the riverside, the flow of water, the stasis of life, and the emergence of a teenager’s sexual desires.
During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to escape capture, lives hidden in a cave. To help him there is a young woman who has been in love with him for a long time. However, one day, during one of those daily visits, the boy abuses her.
After being fired for suspecting illegal toxic waste trafficking at her company, a secretary falsely accuses her superior, Marc, of sexual harassment on the radio. This lie drives Marc's fiancée to suicide, while simultaneously, the company owner frames the unsuspecting Marc for the illegal trafficking to cover his own tracks as the police close in.
Three children attend an institute bordering a middle school where Lauretta studies. The boys befriend her and decide one night to go see the fireworks, but one of the children is injured by a bomb. This situation causes the injured child's father and nanny to fall in love.
He is engaged to his best friend. He and she are great friends, and they love each other very much. One day he will be kicked out of the house by her friend, and it will be she who will host him to sleep, with all the consequences of the case.
Elba mine manager "Marco" meets, falls in love with, and marries "Paola" only to discover that her ex "André" is still keen.
A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
In the rugged, fog-shrouded mountains of Aspromonte, Italy, an archaeologist and his assistants are seeking an ancient treasure. But their digs release mysterious mythological creatures who will change the lives of the inhabitants of this remote village forever.
It tells the story of Maryam (Duné Medros), a young Iranian director intent on shooting a documentary focusing on Anna (Paola Toscano), a woman who spends her life in the Roman alleys.
After leaving her boyfriend, a girl wanders for a few days meeting new people and experiencing new emotions
2087. Vera and Roberta are two "Abjurants", meaning women who refused to adhere to the Eugenics Programme imposed by the Government and who have been consequently confined to an unknown location and used as test subjects. Their only purpose in life is recalling to mind their lovers' facets.
A young architect, Luca Fabiani, arrives in Venice to restore an ancient building in the Jewish ghetto. Here he discovers that on the top floor there is an apartment still inhabited by Elio Sorani, an elderly writer who has been living in seclusion for years, immersed in his memories. Elio is often visited by Giulia, a young woman who exchanges furtive and quick conversations with him. Giulia has an art gallery, where she meets with the man she is having an affair with, the Russian Sacha, an art critic who has now become a mediator of paintings between Italy and Russia. After overcoming an initial moment of mistrust, Luca and Elio become friends, and Elio gives Luca the manuscript of an unpublished novel, which Luca believes will enable him to reconstruct the writer's past.
Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).
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.
On the day of an inauguration to head the family business Stane confronts marriage, love and patriarchy.
Like his father and grandfather before him, Nicola works on a field along an old mountain road. He sells potatoes grown by his family to passing motorists, while work on the "new road" is about to end. An unexpected encounter will give him the courage to take risks and ... change gears.
1978. Memories of a clandestine love story.
Carlo Corsi, coach of a rising football team, encourages his talented son Marco to become a champion. However, Marco struggles with the pressure, leading him to use performance-enhancing drugs. The mother, Giovanna, tries to reunite the family through their shared love of the sport.
Frederic, after having announced sadly and wistfully at Catherine, goes to war.He's wounded in the war, so he has to go to the hospital where Catherine, as a nurse, can heal him.
A young nun's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.
What is an actor willing to go through in order to break out of the character that has been imposed on him?
The film tells the story of a group of survivors of a planetary catastrophe. They are all passengers on a train that al at the time of the disaster they were traveling from Rome to Milan. Isolated on the Apennines, after waiting in vain for help, our men set off in search of food and shelter. Until the quintet shows up I realize that the known world no longer exists and that the future promises to be a real one real nightmare. A nightmare of which ours will become full protagonists, transforming, chapter after chapter, from helpless prey to bloodthirsty hunters.
Seventy-five years after the release of the film *Miracle in Milan*, Claudio Longhi and Lino Guanciale invite us to revisit this unforgettable, beautiful fairy tale, to rediscover, in the mirror tarnished by the passing years of this fantastical epic tinged with magical realism, the truest features of our own faces. But what is a miracle?
In biblical times, a shepherd buys a wife for one of his sons, but a passion breaks out between the patriarch and the slave and the tribe risks falling into ruin.
Romeo, a rebellious heir, is kicked out after a family fight. He goes to Venice to be with Juliet and their child, but ends up in a robbery. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, Cinedramma retells their story as an urban western, swapping horses and train heists for Ferraris and luxury robberies.
A space traveler crashes back on Earth unaware of having brought an alien parasite with him, living and haunting him just below his skin.
A young witch tries to right the fatal wrong of killing her brother.
Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
Vera, a forty-year-old woman of Romanian origin, finds herself unemployed once again and is forced to move Kali, a young Nigerian girl, from one city to another across sun-scorched Sardinia: a seemingly simple ‘task’ turns into a journey that lasts a lifetime.
Andrea, a young and shy student at the Academy of Fine Arts, helps his girlfriend Alex find a new way to make a graffiti through their sensorial memories
Three episodes offer the opportunity to tell "another story", id est an unexpectedly positive epilogue to what initially may seem like the umpteenth case of violence.
Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher, is gay. Heartbroken and determined to flee as far away from him as possible, she meets a young girl on the train who gives birth and abandons the baby. Sofia makes a life-changing decision: she takes the child and passes him off as her own son, naming him Bruno.
Marco Parisi have worked in a small Turin factory for thirty years. The bankruptcy trustee gives him a year to seek investors keeping the company alive. At the end of the year, it is Marco himself who decides to take over.