A short documentary exploring the life and work of writer Giorgio Scerbanenco.
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A short documentary exploring the life and work of writer Giorgio Scerbanenco.
The employees of a supermarket are experiencing the night shift. They perform their duties with great boredom, until they find a new way to get the attention of the consumer.
One million Euro. The ransom that a masked man asks to free Lucia, Senator Silvestri’s young daughter. The case is followed by Captain Brunetti of the Special Operating Unit of the Carabinieri. However, once the ransom is paid, the kidnapper raises the stake and asks for ten million Euro for the other ten people he is detaining in an abandoned farmhouse: one million for every human life.
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez . This son, Fidel, teams up with an outlaw band lead by a former military man going by the name The Major. When Stark finds Fidel he is reintroduced to an old acquaintance which makes his job of returning the son a lot more difficult.
After a Robbery at a jewelry story, a group of robbers takes refuge with a host in a shabby apartment building in the suburbs. But they don't know that in the basement hides an obscure alien creature with telepathic powers.
The Wizard Cabalone and the rooster Coccante, in an attempt to create the perfect assistant, pour a potion down from the tower, which passes through herbs, bushes and rocks, collecting their colors, the same ones from which the Magotti are born.
16-year-old Christian longs for a scooter. One day he meets Schizzo; together they carry out a robbery to make Christian's dream come true.
An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives.
Part of Tutto Verdi series - Ernani (2005) Parma. 'Ernani' is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play 'Hernani' by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed on 9 March 1844 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
"Contronatura" could be described a bit too simply as a romance between a rural woodsman and a suburban pharmacist's wife playing out the struggle between civilization and nature.
Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a year early for good behavior, but it certainly wasn't good behavior that got him in the big house in the first place. Two years prior, Ricco took it upon himself to go after Don Avito, the man who killed his pappy and took his girlfriend. Yet Ricco came out of prison a changed man. He had a lot of time to think, and the anger and thirst for revenge is no longer there, much to his mother's chagrin. She is quite upset that her son is not interested in paying back Don Avito for his deeds, and she needles Ricco relentlessly until he reluctantly gives in to her demands.
When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...
Chickenpox is a harmless disease when caught as a child, but as an adult it can be very dangerous. When Mom finds out, she starts to worry about Charles, her little son, who has never caught it yet. He grows up fast and action must be taken now. She must find a way to make him sick. But does dad agree?
In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.
15th-century physician Robert Briand runs a leper colony that accepts new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Briand finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her.
1979. Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli is appointed liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana, the empire of mighty financier Michele Sindona. Teaming up with unassuming cop Silvio Novembre, Ambrosoli uncovers the real scope of Sindona's malpractice, exposing him as the middleman in a global network linking the Sicilian Mafia, Italy's ruling Christian Democrats, and CIA-backed covert operations across Western Europe. Isolated by his own government and pressured by mob hitmen, Ambrosoli refuses to back down, insisting he is simply 'doing his duty'.
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
From primordial chaos and human negligence emerges Cronus, son of Gaia, determined to avenge the oppressed Earth. From poisoned waters and plastic waste, Aphrodite is born, disfigured but a symbol of beauty and the fragility of nature. Her presence transforms pain into consciousness, teaching that respect for every creature and for the planet is essential for the rebirth of the world.
Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.
“A fragile journey into childhood, suspended between dream and harsh reality.”
In 1981, Federico Spivak, a declining show producer, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to bring Frank Sinatra to Argentina. He hopes not only to save the production company founded by his father, Coco Spivak – now in a vegetative state after a stroke – but also to finally earn his respect.
A vibrant crime story set among the streets and buildings of a glittering and restless Liguria. The clear late summer light illuminates Chiavari, a well-ordered and clean Ligurian town overlooking the sea.
A love story about destiny. A destiny story about love.
The story of a certain Alberto Califano who has not visited his friend Bartolomeo Ciaccia for several years. When he meets him, he learns that the man is now at the end of his life. Bartolomeo has a sister, Carolina, who takes care of him and tries to fulfill all his wishes. The sick man makes himself hateful with his behavior, and his friend finds himself having to play different roles to meet the needs of the sick man. In the end, it is Alberto himself who is struck by a confidence that Bartolomeo reveals to him, deceived by his friend's disguise. In fact, he learns that his eldest son was born from his wife's relationship with Bartolomeo.
Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks COSI FAN TUTTE as one of the great works of art from the Age of Enlightenment. Nicholas Hytner's beautiful new production, with its sure touch and theatrical know-how, lives up to its promise to be "shockingly traditional" as Iván Fischer teases artful performances from an outstanding international cast of convincing young lovers.
The documentary film "Ȋuventa" relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young Europeans all involved in different ways in the Jugend Rettet humanitarian project, starting from the first voyage of the "Ȋuventa" ship in the Mediterranean Sea to the heavy accusations that led to the seizure of the vessel more than a year later.
Celeste is sixteen years old, a body like many others and a secret of her own. Every now and then, driven by no one knows what need, she goes down the seafront and waits. When a car stops, she gets in. Davide Heller is a successful criminal lawyer. He lives alone in a large apartment, he is a young, handsome, taciturn man. He too has always had a secret. Their meeting is like a faulty bomb that never goes off. One morning Davide Heller leaves home in a jogging outfit, with a big backpack on his shoulders: inside, the corpse of a little girl. Celeste follows him and from then on, she’ll never let go of him… In a crescendo of tension, their two ordinary and sick existences mirror each other noiselessly. Until the end.
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
A brief look into the disruption of expectations and also jackets.
A young woman becomes the victim of extortion.
When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
An illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England. Disgraced, but dedicated Nazi officer Colonel Werner von Uhland is assigned by his superiors to ferret out these deceitful dissidents and stop them before it's too late. von Uhland recruits a bunch of beautiful women to seduce these traitors and undermine their conspiracy
Nicole is a woman who carefully controls every aspect of her life, down to the smallest detail. Her little girl Lucy is an eight-year-old who is lonely and troubled.
Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.
Alberto Angela retraces the stages of the largest military landing in history, recounting the preparation and consequences, up to the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, which ideally marks the end of the great operation that began with D-Day.
Don Michele, boss of a smuggling ring and partner of Maria’s father known as the little Madonna, tries to rape the girl when he discovers that her father has stolen a large sum of money to use as her dowry. The girl saves her father from suicide and proves him innocent of the murder of Don Michele.
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune.
While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
After a model is brutally murdered on a Caribbean island, her sister's investigation uncovers a horrifying rat-like creature.
Pimpa receives a letter from Rabbit and rushes to the beach, where they play with his siblings. After they leave, she floats on a raft until the little fish Flip wakes her up—he needs a candle for Grandpa Fish’s birthday! Pimpa gives him one and joins the underwater party, where a fish band (Trombone, Trumpet, Drum, and Clarinet) and Boby the dogfish sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Grandpa Fish shares his childhood dreams with Pimpa, especially his love for stargazing. She takes him to the surface on her raft to see the stars again. Meanwhile, Armando returns home but there isn't anybody, so Mirror Pimpa replaces Pimpa. Colombo arrives in Uncle Gastone’s rocket and whisks Pimpa and Grandpa Fish on a space adventure. Back home, Pimpa tells Armando everything before falling asleep, happy.
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
A gang of Mexican bandits make trouble for the owner of a gold mine, so he hires on a gunfighter.
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.
Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome.
Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their end of the deal.
Clearly inspired by the then-mayor of Naples Antonio Bassolino, with references to the problems of the city and its hopes of a renaissance, the works of Francesca Spada, the crow of Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows. Segment of "I vesuviani" (1997).
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra journey across Italy in preparation for "Nostalghia." Their location scouting unfolds into a wide-ranging conversation about filmmaking, artistic simplicity, and cultural identity, with Tarkovsky articulating his creative philosophy while confronting the emotional weight of working far from his homeland.