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A group of people at a desolate gas station fantasize about what could happen next. Some are violent, some erotic and some both.

The focus of this documentary is the nurses and porters working at the Policlinico universitario Umberto I in Rome, which demand equal treatment within a militan action that follows the steps of the operaist labor struggles in factories.

Divided into three parts (two documentary and one fictional), the film explores the early stages of the 1977 movement, between demonstrations and heated assemblies at the Circoli del Proletariato Giovanile of the State University of Milan. The daily difficulties and the search for redemption are told without rhetoric, but with a raw reflection on social marginalization.

Based on the 1971 novel "Atti relativi alla morte di Raymond Roussel" (Acts Related to the Death of Raymond Roussel) by co-writer Leonardo Sciascia.

A married woman with a young daughter runs away from home to live out her dream of becoming a photo model. She becomes involved with a wealthy Italian entrepreneur while she's at it but has second thoughts once her daughter becomes ill.

The laugh-out-loud adventures of a drug dealer and his customers struggling with a joint, filmed in the hippy commune of Terrasini, near Palermo.

Pietro Rossini is a strapping young man that unfortunately spends most of his time at work chasing after two pretty young secretaries who are only too happy to return his advances. Tired of this endless chase and work waste, his boss sends him on an errand to Paris hoping this will help productivity around the office. Pietro quickly hits up his friend for a woman he can fool around with while he's in Paris, but Rita, the woman he meets, ends up being an large, boorish, unsightly woman. Once he arrives at his hotel, Pietro meets the young and lovely Nancy and attempts to romance her as best he can, but no matter where he goes, Rita is not far behind.

A young widow becomes a prostitute in order to provide a better life for her son.

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria.

A being from outer space can enter the mind and body of anyone he wants.

Naples. Don Raffaele Sapienza famous Neapolitan smuggler loses one of his men into the sea during a firefight against unknown offenders, meanwhile is kidnapped a child, the son of Mary, a former companion of wisdom. Raffaele is working now to find the child, and discovers that behind the kidnapping is a group of Marseilles, the same ones who killed the smuggler in the sea.

A film by Gianfranco Baruchello

It exists only in a fragmented state.

Reflections on the contemporary city, through quotations from José Ortega y Gasset, Oswald Spengler and Frank Lloyd Wright and images of Rome (in particular the EUR district, construction sites, walls covered with graffiti and torn posters, the Forum, the Altar of the Fatherland).

The story of a geologist who studies the strength and direction of the wind to avoid avalanches and finds himself involved in the interests and mysterious stories of a small village in the Alps.

Directed by Alberto Lattuada

Le cinque stagioni is a four-part television drama directed by Gianni Amico and broadcast by RAI in 1976. Set in a retirement home, the film studies components, manias, small and large dramas of retirees.

Produced for the Tourism Department of the Province of Matera, with the executive collaboration of Istituto Luce-Italnoleggio.

Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the Salò army is ordered to shoot two young men, captive partisan relay girls, in retaliation.

Mina live at a concert on September 16, 1972, at the Bussola nightclub in Tuscany.

The film is ironic about the lack of actions for transforming city spaces; the few actions undertaken are almost always limited to the positioning of “poles and chains”: the temporary signs of a hypothetical transformation on the city. The film shows sequences of innumerable “pole and chain” barriers, commented on by architects, councillors, members of activity groups… who all underline the impermanence of these objects in view of some “elusive” transformations of the city.

A film by Ellis Donda.

Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.

During the filming of Arabian Nights (1974), Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about his passion for protecting the complete form of ancient cities and shows us Orte and Sabaudia. Part of a TV Series documentary in 8 episodes.

Vincenzo is hired by mobster Salvatore and moves to Turin with his sister Annunziata. After witnessing a mafia hit, he is sent to France. On his return he discovers that his sister is no longer working but is instead performing as a stripper in a nightclub...

Madonna Violante goes to Rome to find the three Armida daughters, Lorenza and Vanna, who she has not seen for many years; but first she stops by her friend Antonia from whom he learned many unseemly things about them.

Milan: a drifter, hungry for money, allows himself to be corrupted and carries out a murder on commission.

During the Second World War, the Germans hunt an Italian partisan who is trying to blow up a chemical weapons laboratory.

Mario is a hairdresser and thereby maintains his large family. He is an avid footballer and, together with two friends on a football team, girls from the local orphanage. In addition, he falls in love with Elizabeth. By train a lot the team arrives at the national level and makes it even chance to win an important game.

In the village of Buti, on Monte Pisano, oral tradition preserves the memory of a type of popular theater known as Maggio, which died out around 1952, the year of the death of one of its last directors, Angiòlo Bernardini, who passed away at the age of 82. The director, with the help of the old prompter, handwritten notes on the scripts, and the actors of yesteryear, now elderly, attempts to stage this theater again, recited and sung in octosyllabic quatrains.

Research on faces, made of color and superimpositions.

In 1979, while doing his military service, Giancarlo Soldi made his directorial debut with this short film. The Super 8 camera for the short was provided by Paolo Gioli, a multimedia artist, to whom he had been the sole assistant for two years. The film was seized by the Carabinieri under the pretext of showing weapons protected by military secrecy until 2024.

Prison as the repressed side of an entire society. As such, it flows in the long monologue of an ex-con recorded by the analogue videotape which, still at his dawn, captures it in its integrity.

While on his way to visit Father Felipe, Sandro has a car accident and dies. Commissioner Selvaggi investigates the case, directing his investigations towards a group of the man's friends addicted to gambling.

"D" originates from and proceeds through the interpenetration of unreality and reality. The places subject to a long and silent violence are the small towns of eastern Liguria [...] The film is a poem about Liguria, where the critical description of the present contrasts with that of a balanced world like Virgil's.

Super8 film-portrait of Anna Carini.

Vittorio Cottafavi's 1973 TV adaptation of Jean Anouih's play on Joan of Arc.

A tale in two (silent) voices. The forest, the vineyards En Geddi, are there and are not there. The two voices speak on the border between recognition and estrangement, distance and contact. Sometimes, like certain angels in paintings, they turn their eyes away from the representation and look at the observer. Part Two of the Eryngium Flowers series.

A rigorous portrait at the dawn of the 1970s, created by the future assistant director of the film Salomè. Filmed "in secret," at the actor's request, the documentary is an extraordinary testimony to particular moments in his working and public life.