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A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion.

It is the last day of the first term and students are willing to do anything for an extra grade, ready to turn the school into a battleground.

Two young men try to make it big as musicians.

Susy, a call girl from Milan, receives a castle as a gift from one of her old clients, Baron Colletta di Sant'Omero. When she arrives, she is mistaken for the widow of the deceased squire and is immediately surrounded by the mayor, members of the town council, and other people who all aspire to take over the dilapidated property for little money, whose future is guaranteed by the industrial expansion of the Calabrian village. Susy realizes the situation and astutely takes advantage of it. She manages to obtain the unanimous vote of the city council against the expropriation of her land, and, having duped all her suitors, she devotes herself to Corrado, a technician at some important factories in the area.

A man works as a night porter in a hotel. He spends his shifts spying on couples engaged in their sexual acts with hidden cameras until one day he witnesses the taken hostage of a woman, deciding to go and rescue her.

The famous rock band The Paperback music is convened for a big concert at Big Depression. Arriving at their destination, no musical event seems ready for that day, but suddenly a secret passage opens to the planet Planio, where dictator Balthazar has banned all kinds of music.

Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.

A ship stopped at the port of Istanbul should take vegetables, but an unscrupulous man would like to add weapons under the vegetable crates. The captain of the ship refuses the offer of the evildoer.

The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.

Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire.

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

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.

Nina is 13 years old and has an incredibly messy family. She finds herself catapulted from the center of Rome in a suburban neighborhood: grey high-rises, boys on scooters and a funny grandmother who spends all of her time gambling on cards. A sudden encounter upsets everything, like a storm: she is 13 years old, lives in the opposite building, and dances the Lambada. Her name is Sirley, she comes from French Guiana and has an ambitious dream: to interpret the Madonna in the neighborhood procession. Between the two an intense, very strong bond is created. Their friendship will lead Nina to finally lose control, and to discover her place not only in the world, but in the heart of her family.

Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.

An awkward first aid instructor seeks intimacy with his student. Their questionable contact is fleeting, but for a silent witness from afar, it leaves a lifelong imprint.

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

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

After constant arguments with his parents and after being left by the girl who dumped him for an engineer, Mike leaves university and starts managing a laundry hoping to find himself and escape from his life. But what he tries to distance himself from will present itself to him in the form of other people, the laundry customers, who like him struggle to be in this world. Among these he meets Laura, the client in the diving suit, who after isolating herself from the rest of the world is trying to reopen herself to people and life...

‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the routine, while the Jaguar imparts lessons in life and conquest...

The three daughters of Madonna Violante: Nanna, Concetta Fiorenza and have only one thought, to have a good time as much as possible with men. Learning that one of the peasants of the family, Torello, is powerful, attractive, and very handsome, Concetta he brings it into the house. Meanwhile Fiorenza, believing her husband to be out of town for penance, enjoys the favors of a friar.

Twenty-four hours before his wedding, two unexpected romances threaten Arturo's wedlock.

Italian rockstar Geppo has to learn English in order to perform with Barbra Streisand in the US, but falls in love with his beautiful female tutor, Gilda.

Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.

"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.

The life of Orlando, a gentle piano tuner, tormented by back pain, changes when he meets Olga, a charming physiotherapist, who diagnoses him with an emotional contracture and asks him to bring her a photo of himself as a young man, so that she can help him resolve his problems. The unusual request will push Orlando to travel and to relive, almost like a spectator, the events of his life that made him the solitary and contracted man he has become.

This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake).

God might forgive you. He... no.

According to Ferrara, Rossellini told him it was a satire in which “Perfidious Albion,” a big turkey representing England, goes around pecking at the hens representing the nations of Europe, until defied by a rooster representing Italy. “Rossellini detested it,” said Ferrara, “[though his] genius was such that he could achieve extraordinary effects out of nothing.

After a robbery, two criminals take refuge in a garage, one of them is seriously injured, soon he begins to see a strange character. Is it real or is it just a hallucination?

When Ulderico and Raffaele, two frustrated precarious workers, discover a bound and gagged man in their storeroom, they decide to do only one thing: not call the police, because all the evidence would be against them. But handling the situation on their own is the beginning of a nightmare worse than their already miserable realities.

9 young performers participate in a difficult selection process for a new musical by a gifted director with a dark past. They come from different backgrounds with differing motivations, but all have the same dream: to make it.

Giovanni is a famous life coach who claims he can make any desire come true. One day he announces a competition in which three people dissatisfied with their lives will win the chance to be followed by him for six months.

A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.

A dorky uncle and a nag of an aunt mess up a family, their surroundings and ultimately half of Venice. Ein an Schwachsinn grenzender Klamauk, von allen guten Geistern verlassen. Baba is a disgraced gang leader! He threatens everyone and collects "protection money". Recently another gangster called Riza appeared. He uses Baba's name and collects the money in his name. Baba tries everything to stop him but fails. Riza falls in love with Aisha, who turns out to be Baba's daughter. He blackmails Baba to marry his daughter. Baba's man Bekir hatches a plot on his behalf and kidnaps Ayşe. Baba and Reza save him, Baba forgives Bekir and gives his place to Reza. Now he will spend time with his grandchildren...

A practicing Catholic falls in love with a devout Buddhist. A minor attends a pastry-making course in prison and discovers that love can be found behind bars. Two long-time friends celebrate an unusual Valentine's Day, thinking about the girlfriends who have just left them and a daughter arriving from Africa who one day rings their doorbell.

A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.

While looking for new tenants for his seaside villa, surrounded by a big garden, Andrea Ricoli, a 50-years old architect, meets Rossana, a newly 40-years old, anaesthesiologist at the local hospital, and married to Riccardo, ten years younger than her: he's an aspiring writer, temporarily employed as a salesman at a local shoe store. During an eventful New Year's Eve, Andrea introduces Riccardo to a Maghreb restaurant owner - who is interested in restoring an attic apartment - and his lovely sister Hikma. Months go by. Andrea discovers that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardo's child, while she's struggling with her old-fashioned, fundamentalist brother's mentality. He offers to help the couple and let them stay with him in his villa. Teaching him how to care for his garden, the young Hikma reminds Andrea of his wife Sofia, who passed away right there four years earlier, in unclear circumstances...

Four stories about football.

When the heir to the mosquito repellent empire discovers he is dying, he announces a plan for the end of the world. The Russian stepsister puts a bounty on his head: three would-be assassins compete for the money, in a race against time.

Gianna is a theater actress who tries to stage a show, but meanwhile she has to take care of her elderly mother.

What happens if a group of old people, who see their world collapse around them, instead of giving up decide to fight back in a brilliant and courageous way?

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.