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When David, Sarah, and Nicole stop at a gas station, they are robbed. Then they spend the night at a meat market but have no idea that the butcher slaughters humans for meat.

Filmed through a grainy zoom lens, a succession of intimate moments unfolds as approximately 70 couples engage in tender, playful, or passionately abandoned kisses, captured in slow motion within a tightly framed composition. The focus of each scene is on the negative space between the lovers’ profiles, creating a mesmerizing visual narrative.

Gian Piero Brunetta concisely outlines the principles and evolution of Italian Neorealist cinema.

Path in progress on the intentions of those who think badly. The discomfort of the mind of those who have no discomfort is greater than that of those who make discomfort their natural expression. "Troppolitani Outside Where?" it is a journey through the folds of the human and inhuman mind. A one-way trip that does not allow for escape: you remain trapped in the thought of whoever is in front of you. One is stunned by the astonishment that the deviated mind is able to arouse.

A journey from the south to the north of Italy covering the track of the legendary Joris Ivens documentary "L'Italia non è un paese povero".

A Donatello award nominated short drama about the efforts of a young boy to return a stolen video camera to it's Italian owner who wishes to record a Christmas message for his daughter in the United States.

The Kinder characters live in a great animated film: 10 wild players decide to participate in the most important football tournament in the animal kingdom, the Forest Cup.

Documentary filmed on the occasion of the “2003, Odyssey in Space Zero” operation inside the Spazio Zero Theater in Rome. The document, filmed between 21 October and 30 November 2003, recounts the representation of Fotofinish not as a single and continuous work, but as the evolution over time of the moods and movements of the actors who, replica after replica, have developed an awareness of the space and arrived at the joy of staging.

A little girl is meeting her father who is back home for three days, but he is not giving her the attention she needs. When he starts talking to a woman, the girl finds his video camera and is soon recording the world around her.

A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.

Giulio Questi gets a visit from the ghosts of the Fascists he killed as a partisan during Italy’s ‘43-’45 civil war. Meanwhile, a spaceship ready to take them away to an eternal black hole awaits all of them.

A teenage girl spending the night at the place of a boy she likes finds herself targeted by a mysterious serial killer who may be the very boy she is with.

Portrait-conversation with the writer Jonathan Lethem.

In a seemingly commonplace Italian province, someone is preying on gorgeous, young models. Nina is on a mission, repulsed by the horrible crimes; she will slice, slay and mutilate everything and anything that gets in the way of justice. Not for the faint of heart, Nina depicts an underworld of depravation

José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So does Krassimira Stoyanova as Desdemona, not in the first flush of youth, but heartfelt and direct; while Lado Ataneli's Jago is a brilliantly understated study in jovial malevolence. With strong conducting from Antoni Ros-Marbà, the whole cast collaborate to give us the truth of this desperately upsetting work, as no other DVD and few live performances I've seen of it ever have.

In Italy, couples prepare for their imminent weddings. The bureaucratic State and the dogmatic Church oversee the nuptials. Municipal employees listen to couples' statements and intentions. A provincial priest delivers a matrimonial lesson: speaking of faith and science, spirituality, and sexuality.

Gaia lives her life in joy. She is a teenager, she loves her father, manager of an important firm, she has a boyfriend and she is among the best in her classroom. But one night two policemen arrest her father. He is accused of bribe.

The double meaning in french of film title MINEURS resume the sense of the film: mineurs as children and as mineworkers in the coalmines. Italy, at the beginning of the sixties. In a little village in Lucanie, little region in the south, four children live in a situation of absolute poverty, but with their plays in the street succeed in living in happiness. In the air the menace and, in the same time, the hope of a telephonic convocation by their relatives, already at work in coalmines in Belgie, in the mine district of Limburg. Two of our children leave with their families, to reach the numerous Italian community of Flandres. The children will have a lot of problems, in the school and with the language, to integrate in a hostile ambient, but, at the end the will succeed.

Carol meets David one year later, taking her into a growing chasm of horrors in which the everyday reality, seems to give way to the dreams of past nights.

Actors Franco Interlenghi and Rinaldo Smordoni (who played Pasquale and Giuseppe respectively) recall how they landed the roles in the film Shoeshine and their experiences as young actors in post-war Rome.

7 April 2006 Alberto Grifi, a year before his death, is interviewed for the last time by Roberto Silvestri and canecapovolto. What emerges in the interview is the portrait of an underground filmmaker who was always intrigued by the dual aim of pursuing scientific and artistic research simultaneously, and whose cinema, influenced by Grotowski's method, was made by people whose objective was to understand how life works by interpreting roles that allow them to live experiences which were totally different from their own ones.

An inexorable journey through mental and visionary archaeology. Not real encounters, but ghostly iridescence, enticements in a game of reflections.

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organises a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his feelings to Violetta, who is already suffering from consumption. She vacillates between genuine affection and a realistic assessment of her situation as a "fallen woman", which precludes any lasting relationship with a man.

The story of a famous singer known throughout the world and a girl eager to make a career in the music industry. Dream or reality?

Giorgia O’Brien (born Giorgio Montana) was one of the greatest divas on the Italian stage in the 1950s and ’60s. She had the clear voice of a soprano, but could also reach all the registers of a baritone, bewitching the public for thirty years. The story of an existence forged by diversity and challenge, but also shaped by love, friendship and research.

A Donatello award nominated short drama about Carla, a large and scruffy lady who lives with her rather neglected son Francesco and her younger and handsome partner Antonio. Most people are surprised by their relationship, and when Antonio meets the young and vivacious Giorgia things might change for everyone.

A conversation with Italian director Giulio Questi about his digital short films.

Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia. To assist him in his quest, he enlists his old friend/nemesis the unbelievable Raspoutine whom he first has to help escape from the prison of Samarkand (aka "La maison dorée de Samarkand", the golden house of Samarkand). On the long and tortured way to the riches, he encounters all kind of interesting characters, soldiers of fortune, lost British actors, and even his doppelgänger.

A cinematic journey in search of Raphael's memory, told through a portrait of his women, his compositions, and his passions.

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault. The opera was first performed in Rome's Teatro Valle on 25 January 1817.---- IMDB id refers to Great Performances: Season 24, Episode 12 La Cenerentola (3 Apr. 1996) from Houston Grand Opera so release date is misleading.

The 1996 musical comedy "Alle volte basta un niente", starring Gianfranco Jannuzzo and Claudia Koll.

Mozart opera.

A man has an eerie encounter with a mummy in a museum.

With this documentary, you'll find the answer to the question you've always wondered: do cannibals really exist? On a journey between the past and present in unknown lands, we'll visit tribes that have never before encountered civilization as we know it. We'll witness the most brutal tribal rituals, see the most horrific customs of these peoples, and all this to give you the long-awaited answer: "Cannibals do exist."