Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach).
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Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach).
David works at the zoo, where he meets Giorgia, a girl as beautiful as she's wild. He unsuccessfully asks his brother Libero for advice, then he decides to learn more about her...
On the 1991 European Basketball Championship an incredible event occured. A team of some of the greatest Balkan basketball stars accepted gold and watched the flag of their country be lifted up. The flag of a country that no longer existed.
The troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea diving expedition in the Red Sea and falls in love with the captain.
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.
After her father ends up in the hospital, Emma flies back from New York to her hometown in Italy and stays at her parents' home. All alone in the house, she faces an evil entity that is connected to a cursed radio. Emma will have to unveil the dark secret behind the radio to survive the night and protect the ones she loves.
Considered the heart of the south of Italy, Naples has enraptured its inhabitants and visitors for generations. In the fascinating documentary MAGIC NAPLES, actor/director Marco D'Amore (Gomorrah) sets out to uncover why his beloved Naples is said to be magical. D’Amore presents the city as a world suspended between reality and representation, ruthless truth and admirable fiction. With curiosity and attention, he unearths its mysteries, legends, tragedies, love and a three-thousand-year-old maze of tunnels - the tomb of the secrets on which the entire city rests.
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
A road movie around Sicily in a red van loaded with "pupi", in search of new oral narrators to tell the other Sicily, the one that awakens through the universal force of popular stories.
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
An ex-cop, fresh out of prison, returns home to find it ruled by violent rednecks and must fight to protect himself and his daughter, using his combat skills and a powerful grenade launcher.
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.
Diego and Anna dated for two years. Now they meet again in Rome for a concert - Anna had bought the tickets shortly before breaking up. The plan was to go to the concert separately, but Diego has a different idea.
During the second half of an away game, Nick, an undercover cop, films the violent action in the stands with a microcamera. For two years, he's been tracking Griso, an arms dealer and ultra leader. When he's discovered, the camera continues recording.
A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.
A scientist has discovered a vaccine against AIDS, but many, starting with the Vatican, are putting sticks in his wheels. A group of sensuous women, who publish "DIVA FUTURA" - a magazine to promote unrestrained sex, pleasure and happiness intervenes to defend the scientist. Moana sends Eva to check but the girl is kidnapped. They find themselves persecuted by the owner of a condom factory and his thugs. From this moment on the 6 girls of Diva Futura, headed by Moana and directed by Cicciolina, will do everything to make known to humanity the prodigious formula.
Sicilian dockworker Mimi inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new employment. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organiser. Soon, Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life.
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...
In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all of whose faces are masked by sinister skulls. Brando, the young hero of this film, saves two damsels from the ravages of the sect.
Domenico Quirico, correspondent for the daily La Stampa, was abducted in Syria in 2013 and released after 152 days of captivity. Here he evokes a career spent collecting fragments of other people's lives, and journeys back to the cell where he found himself sharing the fate of the people he writes about. His words, the narrative fabric of the film, turn into action: we follow him first along the Donbass front and then on his return journey, to the place "where it all began and where it all ended:" Syria. Because "it's not about going home; it's about coming back here."
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army.
Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some 'greater good'. After all, God (being perfect) could not 'logically' have created anything but the 'best of all possible' universes.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a monster to show his scientific theories, but soon leaves him. So the scientist tries to rebuild his life getting married with Janet, and retires to his castle with Igor. However the monster comes back to haunt Frankenstein, and so Victor finds out that the monster has ferocious sexual orientation to Janet. Frankenstein then calls the servant Igor to readjust the monster, but also Igor takes advantage of Janet...
Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Filippo is a star on the Italian TV. He works for a documentary series about wild animals and nature. He is sent to Tenerife (Spain) to shot an issue about the local stork. It is the 13th of August. After he did his job is time to leave, but the ferry couldn't operate. He has to spend the night in the island. The day after is again the 13th of August, and Filippo live again the same day for different times. Something has to change to exit the paranoid and unrealistic situation.
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
Miles and Anna are going through a crisis. Miles prefers to hang out in notorious bars and meet other women. In an attempt to resolve the marital crisis, Anna decides to leave for Rio de Janeiro, where her uninhibited sister lives.
United by the dream of setting a new world record as a relay team, five competitive swimmers reveal their lives, hopes and histories.
When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. They soon find themselves involved with a beautiful woman who may wind up being even more trouble for them than the botched robbery.
Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius decides to have Jesus arrested as soon as a suitable opportunity presents itself. Judas is delighted by the reception Jesus is receiving, and quickly wants to win over the influential merchants to the cause which would make him the king and the liberator of the Jews.
The prestigious series of nights traveling with Alberto Angela continues: this will be the night of a grandiose and at the same time unusual Paris. We will go to the most famous places of the Ville Lumière and the most difficult to find. A journey through the history, art and music of Paris, from the Trocadero square, with the Eiffel Tower shining over the city, up to Versailles, passing through the Opera, Notre Dame, Montmartre. In addition to Giancarlo Giannini in the role of Inspector Maigret who seems to know all the secrets of Paris, many illustrious guests such as Mika and Donnarumma, who will tell their Parisian stories, or Lola Ponce who will make us relive the atmosphere of Riccardo Cocciante's musical, Notre-Dame de Paris.
Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction.
The life of a community of mannequins, dealing with purely human activities, metaphor of the stereotypes of our culture. Breaking the rules and warming the hearts is the only truly "alive" presence: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Gianni is a middle-aged man with sexual problems. His doctor, seeing that medicines are useless, advised him to try to have relationships with several women but only a beautiful psychologist will be able to solve his problem.
Caterina and Maria Manara are two monozygotic twins, therefore identical in appearance. What profoundly differentiates them are their character and the choices that life has led them to make. Their story intersects with crimes and attempted murders, threats and attacks, misfortunes and apparitions, premonitions and nightmares.
Paola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.
Two Italians, Sandro and Lorenzo, are traveling through the Soviet Union. Lorenzo has been to Russia before and now, accompanying his friend, gives him the necessary explanations. This peculiar technique allows us to see the USSR through the eyes of a progressively thinking Italian, to familiarize through Western countries with the grandiose transformations that were taking place at that time in the Soviet country, with the most essential features of the socialist reality, with the life of people, with the achievements of science, technology, culture and art.
Bizarre situations from around the world are looked at in this Mondo film.
Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
A married woman is startled by the return of her former fiancé, whom she thought was killed during the war.
A small town in southern Italy is invested by one who will become one of the most important festival of Street Art of the world. Creating a myth through a course of improvisation, chaos and devotion.
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.