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A group of young archaeologists flies to Mexico to study the Mayan culture, but they find trouble when they stumble upon an unknown cursed temple.

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia".

L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca. The music is characteristic of Rossini's style, remarkable for its fusion of sustained, manic energy with elegant, pristine melodies. “L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)” is a two-act opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Angelo Anelli. It premiered at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on May 22, 1813. “L'italiana in Algeri” is the first opera buffa that Rossini wrote shortly after his first full-length work, “Tancredi.” Recorded live at the Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 3:30 P.M. (Central European Time).

A nightmare which envelops the everyday tranquility of domestic life, turning it into a tragedy. Confusion between man, animal and God.

Guided by the spirit of adventure and desire to escape, a group of Italian boys decide to leave secretly for Morocco, soon followed by one of their apprensive parents.

A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.

Documentary about the desolate lives of youngsters living in the Roman suburbs.

Franco, singer of a successful rock band, is tired of a job that is more repetitive than creative. On a whim, he decides to go far away to recharge his batteries: he agrees to coach a group of musicians in a small Inuit village in Canada. It will be a difficult initiatory experience, the approach of a different civilization and culture leading to musical crossbreeding.

Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as part of the company’s Live in HD series. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha of the title, who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton (Marcello Giordani), only to be abandoned by him. Maria Zifchak is her loyal servant Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul who does all he can but is unable to avert tragedy. Performance Date Mar 7, 2009

Explores the strange routine of three of the Baczynski siblings: from 5pm to 8pm every day, for over thirty years Dorota, Tadeusz and Mordechaj have sat on a blue velvet sofa to wait for death to arrive. This ritual gives them the illusory belief that nothing fatal will happen to them for the rest of the day. But their other brother Leopold, who has always been excluded from this ritual, spies on them to check when the sofa will become free…

Two young women and a young man confront a tech mogul on a train about their new invention.

Marisa is a film for Marisa, my mother, Marisa Rusconi who has been gone for a year. I wanted to tell this personal story, with vaguely biographical elements of Marisa and my sensations on detachment and life, using films from the Rai archive on the subject of migration. In this material, broad and open to the world, I found the elements with which I built the backbone of the film. Then I inserted images and sounds recorded by me in the last few months and fragments of Super 8 filmed by my father, Franco, in the 60s.

Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a back-breaking, underpaid job—find their bond tested when they both fall for the same girl against a backdrop of escalating social unrest in their neighborhood square.

Dubbed into Italian version of Brats, Another Fine Mess, The Chimp & Me and My Pal.

Vittorio Zemeli is a man of about 60. He lives in an apartment in a grey building in a grey city center in Europe, crossed by a river. At the center of his house he leads a solitary life, with TV on continuously for company. One evening, like many other evenings, Vittorio sees an actor on TV identical to himself, while eating. The TV Victor kills himself. The next day Vittorio is anxious while on the way to work. Three friends surprise him and drag him into a popular restaurant in town for a birthday dinner. But the journey on the way back home will be one he won't forget.

Behind a dark window, the childhood home, time is rediscovered. A woman runs into the sunny air ... it is a blast, a color, a reflection of water ... By the sea, one encounters people and things lost.

Footage of Mount Etna erupting, filmed continuously over the years by Rai cameraman Giovanni Tomarchio, superimposed on the original images by the Lumière brothers.

Indagine su un cittadino di nome Volonté is a documentary exploring the life and career of Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté. Known for his roles in films with significant political and social impact, this documentary offers an intimate look through interviews and archival footage, highlighting his commitment to cinema as a form of artistic expression and a tool for social change.

The first DVD focuses entirely on the rehearsals and analysis of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14, led by Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra.

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a young girl whose vision of her family and the world is drastically changed when she gets a new pair of spectacles.

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.

Documentary on the village of Viganella, in the Piedmont Alps, and on its mirror that reflects the sunlight on the hamlet, which otherwise would not reach the valley.

The much lauded 'Festival In The Desert 2003' was the first of two programmes to come from Mali. Winner of the Sony Gold Award the show includes music from Ali Farka Toura, Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Tartit and Afel Bocum. The festival itself is held in a nearby oasis in the southern Sahara Desert, and is the traditional gathering of the Touareg people, who sing powerfully hypnotic songs about the pain and pleasures of desert life.

This specific production from the "Le Grandi Operette" collection is a nostalgic gem, led by the legendary Sandro Massimini. If you're a fan of old-school European musical theater, this is the definitive Italian take on Franz Lehár's masterpiece.

Louise, an up and coming model, will do anything it takes to become a top model. Along the way she finds herself involved in the nastier side of the business.

The film is the autobiographical history of the theatre director Pippo Delbono, who recounts the most meaningful moments of his life, up to the present day, along with the characters he has met during his career. It is a poetic statement, a portrait of his own artistic journey from theatre to reality and back. The actors play themselves, a typical element of Delbono's work.

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.

Lucio Gaudino directs this family drama about a pair of brothers grudgingly reunited after their parents are killed by Mafia extortionists. After learning of the murders, affluent yuppie Edo leaves his abode in northern Italy to visit his family's home in Sicily. There he and his resentful brother, wheelchair-bound Saro, argue, reminisce, and debate the pros and cons of living in a beautiful coastal area where Mafia executions are common.

A troubled detective investigates the disappearance of junk TV celebrities who hosted the same controversial talk show.

A quiet country house and the mystery of a window that is always left open… based on Saki’s short story.

If Rome is the capital of the world, then Alberto Sordi is his true son. He absorbed all the vices and valor of his homeland. His whole life was connected with his beloved city. He owed his first success to another great Roman - Fellini, and Italian became the only obstacle in his international career. On stage, Alberto Sordi might have seemed uncontrollable and rude, but could have been charming and slightly ridiculous. He played scammers and victims, sweet losers and unsurpassed drunkards with the manners of great comedians. But, even jokingly, he always remained serious.

The Chinatown in Milan is highly problematic, recording several murders a year, perpetrated with meat-axes, in the streets, by the light of the sun. When an Italian guy asks a Chinese girl's hand in marriage, this triggers a domino-like plot of confrontations among a crowd of characters. Starting from the focus on one of the largest and oldest Chinatowns in Europe, the film carries the spectators into a universal metaphor on hatred and dreams between West and China.

1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy.

Among the many odd jobs Matilda, a provincial girl, takes on to make ends meet is playing the role of a princess in historical costume reenactments. But when she finds herself pregnant, her boyfriend Pietro refuses to take any responsibility. Matilda then decides to have an abortion, with the help and support of her friend Anna, a fashionable painter who sees her as a reflection of herself. And thanks to Anna, she also comes into contact with Andrea, a wealthy young man whose family boasts noble origins. As if by fate, the role she plays in the reenactments begins to come in handy in a new, far more engaging fiction.

The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then-schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of soliciting three underage boys.

After seven difficult years, Matteo Dell Torre withdraws his campaign from the crisis. But because of the work, he rarely sees with his wife, with children. When the case turned out to be imposed, the police accuse Matteo of murder and find 30 million of bad money on account of the company. Under the threat of business and marriage. Mateo will go to jail. In order to prove his innocence, he turns out to be incarcerated ...

Never seen before: an opera in Zurich station, amidst the throngs of passengers. When lyrical art comes down from its pedestal to meet the public.

Coralba, since returning from a trip to Tuscany, shows signs of mental imbalance. Three friends of hers, who are part of a detective association about paranormal phenomena, investigate to find out the reason for her discomfort.

Riccardo, a southern man of solid principles and good feelings, decides to go and visit his daughter Aurora, who has been living in Barcelona for some time. There, however, a surprise awaits him: Aurora has married a woman. Indignant, Riccardo hastily returns to Italy, determined never to see her again. But perhaps destiny has decided otherwise.

This program features a live concert performance by jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater including such songs as This Is New and Lost in the Stars.

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.