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An alien child, Mirko, is exiled to Earth for his parents' crimes.

Italian Gigolò is an erotic thriller.The young Alessio (Farnesi), beautiful and well-endowed, is a gigolo in the service of rich ladies, a day knows the designer Roberta (Vallone), who takes it as a model in the his own company. In fact he continues to do the gigolo and takes a series to bed of women among the ugliest ever seen in Italian erotic cinema. Alessio She meets the shearer Corinne (Prelle) and falls in love with hers, but she is the woman of a mofioso and pays with death the relationship with the boy.

A worn record by Lou Reed, clips of film, texts that run on the video and are erased: traces of D. Sounds and images collected and rearranged, which recompose a simulated portrait, perhaps not resembling its original, but in which an attempt has been made not to lose that found charge of poetry and provocation. This film was made in 1982, on randomly recovered Super 8 material, shot by D., a seventeen-year-old boy, between 1977 and 1978, and completed with texts taken from interviews recorded in the same period. We have tried to transform forgotten finds, made of hallucinated and lucid self-portraits, significant of an original way of experiencing the condition of youth into active and narrated documentation.

A warehouse of the imaginary, a library of vision, a labyrinth of dreams: this, and much more, is the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. From the magic lanterns to the rotoscopes, from the archive footages of the Torino relics at the time of Pastrone, “Occhi che videro” reconstructs an atmosphere of magic and allure of the visual utopias before the Lumière brothers that any technologic marvel will ever be able reach. But the film is first of all an homage to the founder of the Museum: Maria Adriana Prolo.

A documentary about the 1981 earthquake in Irpinia.

A self-produced road movie.

Donna Beatrice is determined to expose her husband's alleged affair with the beautiful wife of the scribe Ciampa. The woman, heedless of her own family peace and the reputation of the scribe, who tries in vain to stop her, carries out a plan that does not confirm the adultery but, on the contrary, causes a huge scandal. Ciampa finds himself "forced," finding no other solution, to kill the two alleged lovers, driven by Beatrice's "madness." It is precisely from this "madness," however, that Ciampa will find a way to free himself from dishonor and a crime committed lightly.

Leo has a dream: to make a movie in the great outskirts of the metropolis (Rome). He does anything for money, including selling cocaine. But his dream vanishes in the night when the police catch his friend.

San Frediano, protector of petty thieves, descends to earth to convince boys to do a good deed.

One of the early short films of Italian filmmaker Fabio Salerno.

Shot in 1987, it offers a different vision of Puglia than the stereotypes in vogue today. It is a story only through images and music built around faces, gestures, details, natural and urban landscapes.

Comic animation film by Guido Manuli.

Exit is a 1985 Italian short film directed by Pino Quartullo and Stefano Reali. It is set in the future where, on 12 July 3503, a research team explores remnants of humans past and find themselves in a very unusual and strange place: a movie theater. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful to them, but the cynical Don Alfonso challenges them to a bet that the women will be unfaithful given the chance. The officers thus pretend to go off to war, and return in disguise as Albanian strangers, to woo Dorabella and Fiordiligi incognito. The ladies are initially frosty, but soon warm to their new suitors, spurred on by their maid Despina. Performed at the La Scala Theatre in Milan.

Each of us, sentimentally speaking, has happened to have been at least once in our life, either a hunter or a prey, perhaps even without his knowledge. But what is the best role or simply the most convenient one at any given moment is difficult to establish. Sometimes it can even happen to be both, or to start off as hunters, only to find "prey". Of course, however, the opposite can also happen. Continuing undeterred in the territory of the desecration of pre-established roles, this time we have targeted (always with irony) another stereotype, that is, that which attributes to the woman the role of enemy, or at least antagonist of the homosexual.

A street with pedestrians. Music. A voice reads the credits and clarifies, "This is a very violent film." The action begins: a man crosses the street and enters his flat. He opens the door, puts out the fire under the kettle whistling in the kitchen, and enters the living room…

An opera-video on the futurist poet Chlebnikov (theorician of the "transmental language" a complex work that entangles cinematographic and historical memories with electronic procedures made of a web of rigour and emotion). A portrait of a time, of a poet, of one or many utopia at the same time. An electronic elegy with among other elements, music from Paternak.

A very earnest--but very confused--young man is smitten by a young woman he meets in a cafe. He pursues her through the city, even as obstacle after obstacle get in his way.

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and tries to help her out.

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

Adaptation of the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.

Documentary about the making of Fabio Salerno's debut full length feature "Notte Profonda (Deep Night)".

A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.

A film version of an Estonian fairy tale. A witch cuts off the sun's rays and orders a girl to spin them into golden thread.

When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.

Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it.

King Henry VIII (Enrico VIII) of 16th century England falls in love with his queen's lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour (Giovanna Seymour). The queen, Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena) has a former lover, Lord Percy, whom Heny recalls from exile in order to tempt the queen into a compromising situation. When Anne rebuffs Lord Percy because she is married, Percy threatens to kill himself. However, Henry rushes into the room with an entourage and claims the couple has betrayed him. Henry sends Percy and Anne to jail and eventually to their death.

The 2004 Opus Arte DVD release of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni (recorded at Teatro alla Scala in 1987) is highly regarded by English-language critics as a definitive "traditional" production, notable for its legendary collaboration between conductor Riccardo Muti and director Giorgio Strehler.

An artist is invited to Turin and is asked to do a painting inspired by the city and the work of Giorgio De Chirico.

A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photographer she met before and with whom she has an affair. His ex gets kidnapped by three amateur robbers. Both stories end with a dramatic and grotesque epilogue.

Italian short horror movie from 1988.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

Videotape produced by Ferruccio Marotti for Roma's University theatre students. A presentation of Carmelo Bene's "Performative matrix": not a performance yet, but it's not just text or ideas. Essentially, a work-in-progress on his Macbeth.

One of the early short films of Italian director Fabio Salerno.

A drug addict escapes his misery one night by reliving the founding of Rome and imagining himself the Emperor.

An electronic edition of some Super8 film intended to be projected at the concerts of Steven Brown.

The lives of three generations of peasant farmers in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy are the focus of this unexciting, flat-footed saga by Florestano Vancini. When the grandfather (Marne Maitland) first decides to leave his job of canal-building and move to northern Italy, he takes up work as a peasant on the land of a local priest, while his oldest son Venancio (Massimo Ghini) starts driving a carriage. More of a visionary than a chauffeur, Venancio first gets involved in organizing the peasants into a kind of farmer's union, and when that movement goes under, he devotes himself to educating the farmers instead. Along the way, his mother dies, he marries Mariena (Anna Teresa Rossini), and they have children. Much to Venancio's sorrow, his own sons do not want to stay in farming, and as they grow older, only one remains at home to till the soil. In the meantime, the specter of fascism is growing stronger by the day and the clouds of war being to darken the horizon.