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Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Three men have been friends since childhood. To win a prize, they steal something from a girl. The girl is not what she seems. Things go downhill for the friends. On a weekend get-away, secrets are revealed, and people end up dead.

Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...

The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena being brought up by her aunts (Marco Bellocchio's sisters) because her mother Sara is trying to succeed as an actress in Milan. Her uncle Giorgio has a difficult relationship with his sister and judges her for not taking care of her daughter. But as soon as Sara can afford it, she offers to take Elena with her, leaving the village and her aunts, perhaps for ever - while Giorgio, up to his eyeballs in debt, takes refuge in Bobbio. His sister will help him and sell a house.

Featurette with famous cinematographer Vittorio Storaro about his works, how he started with the camera, who was important to him and formed him as an artist.

When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, a lonely man finds himself caught up in a night of intrigue, where no one can be trusted.

A brave scientist has been studying thousands of cases related to alien abductions. By placing abductees under hypnosis, he arrives at the unsettling discovery that for thousands of years, a variety of extra-terrestrial races have been installing their active memories in abducted people's brains. These alien races exploit a powerful source of energy that only humans have: the Soul.

Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. Meanwhile, rugged police inspector Giulio Santini is determined to bag the despicable Vitali.

In an alternation of stories from the past and present of Marco Mazzoli, radio DJ and creator of Lo Zoo di 105 (one of the most followed radio programs in Italy), we relive what symbolizes the great adventure of life: an adventure made of victories but also of many bitternesses and defeats. Episodes of lost and then found loves, friendships that began and then ended, betrayals, thefts, dismissals, complaints and many humiliations follow one another, but in the end, they lead to the fulfillment of a dream, what everyone seeks: their own personal fulfillment.

A former gunman turned priest seeks vengeance on three bandits who are masquerading as law-abiding citizens.

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.

An illicit delivery brings out the hidden tensions and silences that strain the relationship between a father and son.

After the end of the relationship between Gabriele and Arianna, she finds herself facing silence and loneliness, but with the support of her friend Cecilia, she begins a path of healing. When she meets Edoardo, Arianna realizes that love is not limited to just one person, but is an inner strength. Arianna learns to let go of the past and embrace a future full of hope and new opportunities with Edoardo.

A rich industrialist disapproves of the relationship between his son Fabrizio and the beautiful Antonella, who poses naked for men's magazines.

A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".

A couple of hippies are searching for Joe, a long time friend from the 70s who seem to be stuck in time and never aged a day since then. Through technicolor ninjas, bizarre metalheads, shamans and ancient rituals, the two embark on a journey with no turning back.

A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.

Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manchester United career, the man once dubbed the fifth Beatle for his glamorous lifestyle and good looks.

He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The plot is not the important thing in the film ; what makes it emblematic of the early and mid-seventies is the insouciant atmosphere. The '74 oil crisis had not yet morphed into a recession, and life was good - even though it was as hard as ever to find a home near one's workplace (or the reverse) ! Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin are both excellent. The movie is not an all-time great, but it captures the "zeitgeist" of French life in the Seventies.

Songs and singers from Naples, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are the protagonists of a film that crosses one of the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolises in the world. An exceptional orchestra for a repertoire that speaks of love, sex, jealousy, immigration, protest.

An unlikely marriage between two worlds that would like to unite, but their diversity will inexorably make them incompatible. And the more they try, the more they move away, with the hand of fate. Or maybe not...

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play’s rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented also by the Living Theatre). Bene's artistry is encapsulated in one sentence: “One cannot continue to prostitute the idea of theatre, which stands only for a magical, brutal link with reality."

Water, air, earth, fire, ether. Four different stories that tell and show a reaching out towards immortality. We dedicate the element water to immortality in science, that of air to the immortality of art, that of earth to the immortality of faith and that of fire to the immortality of feelings. Ether, linked to the cosmos and the stars, is a tribute to the film industry.

The Indian called Copper Face is suspected to have stolen a large quantity of gold from a bank.

A sudden solar storm renders any electronic equipment around the planet useless. On the same day, a baby girl is found on the mountain near a small village lost in the mountains. Her name is Nina.

A couple inherits a mansion, but when they move in they discover that it is haunted by the murderous spirits of people who have died there.

Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.

Alfonso decides to rob a villa on the outskirts of Palermo believing it to be empty, but in the meantime the owner, Tony, who had an appointment with his lover, Margherita, bursts in and attacks him. Tony, councilor and doctor, wants to avoid the scandal and decides to treat Alfonso. Something clicks in Margherita that will lead her to see both of them, until she is forced to choose.

In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them. Afterall, what difference can exist between a flower and an infection, if they are both a gift of nature?

Carlo and Laura attend the Conservatory. They meet there, fall in love, and after a while decide to move in together in the large house he inherited from his parents. They want to furnish it together and thus embark on a great adventure.

The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his country because he smuggled rice from Palermo to Beijing, tries to train in the art of kung-fu with disastrous results.

Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around the world to discover other empty coffins and a father yet to be found and perhaps to know.

Contract killer Manuel is in possession of incriminating documents that someone is willing to kill for. He takes refuge at a brothel run by his ex-lover, but when he happens across an intriguing prostitute named Victoria, Manuel's life begins to spiral out of control...

A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.

An unauthorized / uncredited / unofficial adaptation "based on the diaries of Anaïs Nin," this was made to compete with the same year's big budget and critically acclaimed Henry & June.

A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to Argentina in search of their spouses.

Two friends who got pregnant at the same time die in an accident. Left to face the challenge of being both fathers and widowers, their respective husbands decide to join forces to raise their children together.

A grotesque tribute to Silvio Berlusconi following his 1994 entry into Italian politics.