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Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous private assembly of manuscript scores grew into the greatest music collection of the age.
An enactment of the last days of Alessandro de’ Medici, who was named the first Duke of Florence in 1532. De Medici, born to an African servant in the Medici household, was assassinated by his cousin Lorenzino five years into his rule. Picking up on Everson’s 2012 short film Rhinoceros, the film broadens the scope of the artist’s look at the movement and backstories of people of African descent.
Who was Galileo Galilei — and what remains of his legacy today? The film draws a powerful parallel between the life of the legendary scientist and the passion of today’s young researchers, tracing a timeless journey of discovery and progress. From the trials of the Inquisition to the frontiers of quantum research, the documentary travels through centuries of scientific revolution, showing how Galileo’s spirit lives on in the minds and missions of a new generation of pioneers.
Forty-something Mattia has every woman in town lusting after him. But every time a woman wants to get hitched, he drags out his 'daughter' (actually the girl next door) to pass judgment on this woman.
The beautiful young Berta Trégner, paralyzed by an accident, spends her life tolerating her misfortune and believing that her husband Gerardo still loves her. After six years, however, almost miraculously, she recovers and discovers that Gerardo has started a new family with Elena, her best friend, and that they even have a son. Distraught, she runs away from home. Michele, Berta's godfather, saves the day by discovering that Elena has rekindled relations with her ex-husband Alberto. He informs Gerardo, who, having rejected the unworthy Elena, can return to Berta to find love again.
The boss orders to Bruce, Stefano and Luigi to bring an important and mysterious briefcase to Basile. Place of delivery? A DAMNED RIVER!
Diana is a woman of our days, whose daily routine is slowly distorted by listening to a radio drama that slowly brings her to a seemingly unknown and fantastic dimension to her.
Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors.
Anna, owner of an electro-mechanical factory, has an affair with her best friend Lisa's husband, hunky Maurizio; realizing she got pregnant, Anna tries to end the affair and, during an argument, Maurizio dies in a car crash—swearing that he'll come back. His promise seems to be fulfilled five years later when, during a wedding, Anna recognizes her lost lover in groom-to-be Tom.
The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.
Mickey is sick with the worst disease. He chooses Flo, an old friend, for a trip in his hippie van to forget about everything just for one night.
Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
A retired professor in his seventies enjoys a quiet, carefree life – until his daughter, amid a marital crisis, arrives with her two unruly children. As his peaceful routine unravels, he’s drawn into the chaos of family and unexpected emotions. Through this upheaval, he rediscovers the beauty and pain of love, and the deep human need to connect—despite the cost.
A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
Ian and Hector, two young men who grew up in the suburbs, want to spend the evening at Milan's most exclusive club. Turned away at the door, the boys end up getting lost in an urban odyssey.
A young woman becomes the victim of extortion.
Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his career ruined. He starts working on a fair; there he meets Hurricane Rosy the first time. When he sees her the next time, she's star of Mike Fernando's women wrestling show. They passionately fall in love, but their their love must survive her rising fame and his violent jealousy
Pai Ching-jui traveled to Italy in 1960 and enrolled in the prestigious Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 1962, becoming the first Chinese student ever admitted to the institution. He graduated in 1963 with an experimental short film, Un Amore (鐘情者痴), which he wrote and directed himself — a playful work staging a "love scene" between an actor and a camera. He remains the first Taiwanese filmmaker to have studied cinema in Italy.
Once finished her studies and the stage in the U.S.A., Jane Dimao returned to her town in Asia, to start her profession as psychologist with the specialization in woman's sexual pathologies. In carrying out her activity , Jane will have the opportunity to face with different patients, anyone of them with different sexual problems. Her involvement towards her patients background and the reading of the book she wrote with her good friend and teacher Nicole Wilson, will bring her to experience the same stories being told by her patients. That's why Jane will find herself committed in different sexual situations with no limits to her transgression. This will make her aware of an unknown deep part of herself. She will be abused… she will prostitute herself in a brothel in the outskirts of her town… she will give herself to strangers in a partners swingers club... she will experience sex in all its aspects.
In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. While trying to raise the money he needs to strike a deal with a prince for the hand of his daughter, he'll find himself caught in a magical journey between past, present and future. Assisted by some rather illustrious companions, he'll have to come to terms with whom he really is and give his life a new meaning.
Five hundred years after his birth, the life and career of the Italian Renaissance's last great painter is explored.
Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.
At the end of the winter, Flaminio, a resistant shepherd, prepares materially and spiritually for the arrival of the spring through daily rituals, using the tools he built for himself: he moves and sows the ground, shears the sheep and makes a woolen suit for the new season. The communities of the valley chase the winter away with cowbells and bonfires through the ritual of Scasada dol Zenerù, which is inserted into the story of the shepherd’s life as a dreamlike element that draws on an ancestral memory. Flaminio’s sensitivity, strongly connected to Nature, allows him to perceive when it is time to call the community to act, starting the ritual.
A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder.
Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.
Psychological Horror short film directed by Elena Coletta.
The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
A sniper is hiding in a bush. He’s waiting to do what he has to do. A man made a choice and he tries to convince a woman to accept it. Some boys organize a football match. A child plays with a water gun. It’s a late summer afternoon. For someone, it will be the last summer.
Imagine to be suddenly able to control your car, your bank account and all the electronics in your life just by thinking about it. What would you do with this power? What would you compromise for it?
A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.
Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!
Letizia, a young 16-year-old boxer, lives with her mother in a small town just outside Milan. After losing her job, her mum decides to move to Rome where she can be supported by her parents and of course decides to take Letizia with her. The film concentrates on the last few days before Letizia moves away, paying particular attention to the relationship she has with Clara: an older girl who trains in the same gym as her. Just when she has to leave, Letizia is forced to reflect on how important this relationship with Clara is for her.
Zorro aids an American gun-runner in his effort to supply arms to Mexican revolutionaries in their effort to overthrow Emperor Maximillian.
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.
Set in the fictional Sendai City, the film portrays an oppressive regime forcing its citizens to watch "The Truth on Sendai City," a TV series that celebrates violence as a model and ideal for living. Reality is distorted by propaganda, while the black flag symbolizes absolute control and the loss of individual freedom.
In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play’s rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented also by the Living Theatre). Bene's artistry is encapsulated in one sentence: “One cannot continue to prostitute the idea of theatre, which stands only for a magical, brutal link with reality."
Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total pleasure in exchange for the life of his fiancée Margaret. Faust accepts but is soon forced to realise the impossibility of crossing the boundaries of knowledge and the limits imposed by God.
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a timeless magical adventure in Wonderwell.
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
From Orvieto Cathedral, the traditional Easter Concert conducted by Maestro Daniele Gatti with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The programme features Haydn’s famous Symphony No. 4, Hindemith’s *Nobilissima Visione* Suite, and Wagner’s *Parsifal*: *The Enchantment of Good Friday*.
An elderly widower visits his wife at the cemetery. In his mind, a dialogue begins between the two, in which their son, who died prematurely, also becomes involved. The man realizes that he is living without a purpose and that perhaps death would be a liberation for him.
Greene plays an up and coming boxer with a powerful right hand and a heart of gold. He works night shifts in a bar and has a girlfriend whose father played by Ernest Borgnine disapproves of the relationship thinking Greene is a no good for nothing loser. To prove himself Greene catches the attention of a local boxing promoter played by Giuliano Gemma who decides to make a champion out of his newfound protégé.
Franco Riva, a geologist who works in Ivory Coast, suddenly returns to Italy, to Genoa, to see his girlfriend, Claudia Fiori, of whom he has not heard for some time. Riva gathers various information about his fate. The concierge of her apartment, which she left two months ago, claims that Claudia has rented a house on the Riviera and got married. Instead, Claudia's sister, Laura, excludes that she might have gotten married without telling her anything and shows the man a postcard that Claudia sent her from Stockholm, where she told her that she was moving for the company where she worked. But the owner of the company, Piero Ricci, denies even the existence of a branch in Stockholm. So Franco turns to the police...
