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A Donatello award nominated short feature about a slight incident that introduces a man and a woman in a quiet cafe.

Giulia works for her father's law film and still lives in her parents' luxurious home. However, she soon realizes the young man from Thailand who is their new houseguest is not just a family friend -- he is Guilia's mother's lover, and almost half her age. Father, however, has an even bigger secret -- he's been having an affair with a man young enough to be his son.

A night watchman is killed and the newspaper La Provincia tries to build a scoop, pretending there is a serial killer behind it. However, someone tries to take advantage of it and within a short time the murders of other security guards follow one another. Walter, at odds with the editorial line, decides to investigate.

Giallo based on the true crime of Rita Squeglia, who killed her lover and hid the body in a suitcase.

A reconstruction, through the testimonies of those who participated in it, of the history of the construction of the Cinema Teatro Nuovo in the Emilia municipality of Cavriago.

Washington National Choir and Orchestra

The director resumes at the theater Laura Berti who reads the most beautiful lyrics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, giving with his hands, voice and words, rhythm and unity to the work.

The Thief of Baghdad (Italian: Il Ladro di Bagdad) is a 1998 Italian animated film. It's a compilination of episodes extracted from Super Little Fanta Heroes, and was directed by Peter Choi.

Luca Magni investigates the atrocious murder of a girl, Benedetta. The young victim was the only daughter of Bruno Corti, driver of the Rinaldi family, owner of a large industrial group.

Walter is HIV positive and is leading a promiscuis life in Rome. He does this so that he won’t infect his wife. Walter’s wife is also cheating on him. In a decidedly dull subplot, Walter’s father is a senator who wants to use his son’s illness to promote his own political career by calling for more AIDS research.

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

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.

Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.

From the Auditorium in Turin, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. RAI National Symphony Orchestra.

Deeply depressed Francesca is being treated by a psychiatrist to overcome her relationship with a man who also had a past relationship with Francesca's mother. After her mother dies in a strange accident, Francesca also disappears under mysterious circumstances.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Documentary shot for RAI Italian television on Tristan da Cunha, an active volcanic island with rare wildlife and home to British Citizens living in the world's most isolated settlement.

Italian horror movie from 1993.

The story of a young Calabrian widow who initially reclusive, must come to terms with her loss and live her life.

A voice speaks from the television to the popular presenter David. With the help of a neurologist, he gives this vision a face and turns it into his alter ego - Adam. Soon his thought creature appears on the screens throughout Europe. The director of a broadcaster tries to use the resulting phenomenon for her interests ...

Based on the true crime known as Mystery of Via Monaci or The Fenaroli case.

Bionda Salvatore, an 83-year-old farmer's wife from a small village in Abruzzo, had to leave her house and garden and now lives in Switzerland with her daughter-in-law and son. What is her everyday life like in emigration, how does she cope with homesickness and what must real gnocchi taste like?

An adventure into a small town plagued by a werewolf that has stalked the peasants for the past 100 years.

The two mercenaries Robert and Brian, specialists in dangerous missions, are given the task of freeing a kidnapped medical team from the clutches of the South American dictator General Rodriguez. With a team of mercenaries they look for the hostages with whom Rodriguez wants to blackmail the American government. In a bloody battle, the hostages, including the young doctor Denise, manage to free themselves from the general's house. After a bomb attack, Robert and Denise are separated from their troops and must make their way alone through the wilderness to the agreed meeting point...

It is well known that the disposition of the images drawn by Escher are neither for animation nor for pre-animation; actually, quite the opposite. His images appear to be the carrying out of metamorphic dissolves. A bird gives way to the recognition of a house, which turns into fish, which turns into birds, and so on. Not a single flapping of wings takes place; everything is reiterated and fixed, becoming immersed in and re-emerging from a static continuum. All of Escher is an homage to one of the major animating forces of the cinema: the cross-dissolve. Precisely there, I found cinematic attitudes: in the house which turns into fish and in everything that transforms into something else. I gradually managed to figure out various types of non-existent sequences and then finally found myself dissolved, crossing over metamorphically. —P.G.

It's Christmas. Mario, a forty-year-old unemployed grandfather who lives by his wits but has an equally chronic dream of becoming an actor, is hired as a caretaker (sixteen hours a day) of a grotesque nativity scene set up on the main street of Bari by a photographer who uses it as a backdrop for photographing children. For us, it's a great opportunity to make a documentary about him... But for Mario, too, we are an excellent opportunity to make his film, the dream he had in his drawer, the film about his life: we are his crew and he is the director! The result is a constant battle: between us, who want moments of the real Mario, the cheerful and optimistic one despite the objective difficulties of his existence, and him, who proposes a tragic but partial Mario, convinced that by loading his testimony with suffering and melodrama, the story of his life will have more appeal...

Documentary film on Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi and Agnese Naldoni's visit to Man Ray's studio.

From the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5 in D major, performed by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jeffrey Tate.

An ordinary day in the woods, examined from a mushroom’s point of view.

African Diary uses footage from a filmed personal diary shot in Algeria by an anonymous Frenchman between 1927-1936. Here, they reprise his cinematic jottings as he followed in the footsteps of the 19th century Orientalists like Flaubert.

Filmmaker Roberta Torre explores and films ideas, places, people and vignettes of themes that wil later be explored in her film Tano da Morire.

A short film by Rezza that should make you want to smoke.

In all of Naples, photographer Oreste Pipolo is renowned for his wedding photographs. An album with the heavily accentuated romantic pictures of Pipolo is, like a copious dinner in an expensive hotel, an essential part of a successful wedding. If need be, every self-respecting bridal couple will spend their last savings to be able to engage Pipolo. In ORESTE PIPOLO, the city of Naples and in particular the Neapolitan wedding is the universe where Pipolo holds sway. We see him routinely handling nervous couples and making preparations for the ceremony of yet another pair, meanwhile constantly commanding his assistants. But when his customers have disappeared from sight another Pipolo appears, one who after thirty years in business is fed up with it and really cannot stand to see another bridal couple.

The story tells of the marital misadventures of Tiziana and Tonino, a couple now in crisis whose tired ménage explodes when the woman receives a phone call from an ex, who proposes to meet again at the "Roxy Bar". Tiziana decides to present herself with a new look and a showy red wig, to the point that when she unexpectedly runs into her husband, the latter does not recognize her and begins to court her.

Hercules’ descendent tells the story of his illustrious ancestor.

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the Pappano are better still due to the female members of the casts. The reason for buying this one is the "Figaro", Bryn Terfel. No one can top him today in that role. John Eliot Gardiner also stands out. Many of us have voiced their opinion that If the Metropolitan Opera would release it's 1998 version, that would be the one to get.