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A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

Two bumbling southern soldiers are still trying to fight the Civil War unaware of its conclusion and encouraged by two southern belles who are trying to hope those who wish to continue the conflict.

Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life.

Bartoloni from Milan exchanges apartments with his colleague from Rome and moves toa new place. And everything could be good, if not unexpected trouble with which he will have to face ..

Colonel Buttiglione is always busy and full of commitments, above all he is clumsy, hates disorder and insubordinate soldiers and "long-haired hippies." One day, after a series of adventures and confusion of all kinds, he makes a mistake that leads to his death. He immediately arrives in Heaven where he meets Jesus, whom he orders to visit the barber immediately.

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.

Susan, an American researcher, is writing an article for an important scientific journal on the history of the American biologist and physiologist Ancel Keys. Since Keys lived in Cilento for his studies, Susan carries out her research in Campania where she has to interview the Italian nutritionist Vanni Proietti, who will provide her with valuable material for her article. The two meet in a restaurant where a casting of young aspiring you-tubers is taking place. Among them, there is Ciro, an overweight child, accompanied by his uncle Sasà. And the eating habits of the two are the exact opposite of what Keys preached.

Hoping to secure a better future for their thirteen-year-old sister Chiara, Massimo and Fabrizio, two penniless brothers with no prospects, invent an unusual business. Armed with masks and microcameras, they publicly demolish the identities of various neighborhood crooks, thus transforming themselves into two unlikely paid heroes.

Daisy and Viola are siamese twin sisters on the verge of turning 18 living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and thanks to their performances at weddings, communions and baptisms, they get the livelihood for the whole family. Kept isolated from the rest of the world by their own father who just exploits them in order to make money, their life turns upside-down when one of them falls in love for the first time and they discover that they can be separated.

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.

After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.

Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma does not work in a peaceful atmosphere due to her particularly demanding employer and the harassment she suffers from her own clients. Equally unhappy is her love life, which is why her only friend, as well as her trusted hairdresser, dyes her hair pink. It is from that moment that her life changes radically.

A young mother tries to hide her son from the man who is in love with her.

Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.

Making of "Caro Diario"

Laura, 13, is a girl with a strong personality: she does everything to seem older. At school she falls in love with the art teacher, Stefano Malavasi. He, realizing the situation, tries to remedy it by staying as much as possible on the tracks of a correct student/teacher relationship. Laura, feeling rejected, takes revenge.

A two-reel adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Helios Film. It is less well-known than the five-reel feature produced the same year by Milano Films, but it was released earlier in 1911.

A terrible pirate terrorizes the Antilles plundering ships, slaughtering their crews and selling women as slaves. One of the women asks Sansone for help.

In 1918 Cesare Magnozzi, a roman photographer, is drafted and together with Don Silvano they escort a soldier to the trench.

When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.

In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and his team-mates Mastic and Froment, try to prevent them from entering the concession where the island's governor and his daughter have taken refuge. They manage to repair the radio so as to follow and guide Mermoz as he attempts to cross the South Atlantic for the 53rd time. The aviator is forced to ditch and is picked up by a boat. Their mission accomplished, Coulibaud and his team boarded a British ship that had come to their rescue.

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.

Drama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the 1852 novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani. A young woman named Beatrice loses her sight after witnessing the death of her mother. Unable to see Beatrice is unable to identify her mothers’ killer. The police arrest a man who they believe is the murderer. Did they get the right man or is the killer still lurking in the shadows? Years later a family friend introduces Beatrice to a renowned Doctor who specializes in restoring sight. Will Beatrice regain her sight and identify her mothers’ killer or will someone make sure that she never sees again?

Dora and Beth, as well as being a couple, are hackers and robbers. After their last heist they need to find a hiding spot. The only safe place is a house hidden deep in the wood, far away from digital connections. What happens there turns out to be something more disturbing and dangerous than the reality they are facing. They find themselves in a fight for their survival against the clock and where their fate is in the hands of the dark web.

In a Latin American country, a rebel frees the prisoners of the local tyrant. Some traitors cause the death of many of his companions and he births the upcoming revolution.

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

Italian comedy

Jean Duprey and his wife Danielle are famous journalists with a special interest in unsolved mysteries. They receive a request of help by an old noble friend of Jean, Guillaume de Saint Lambert, who is about to die by an unknown illness. He lives, obviously, in ancient castle with his wife and the servants. Soon Duprey discover that his friend's wife is a witch (originally burnt in the 18th century) and that Guillaume is under her wicked influence. She practices the art of black magic and by making die slowly all members of the Saint Lambert family she gains eternal beauty. When Duprey breaks the marble casket containing the ashes of the witch she shows her real aspect before dying.

Singapore. Following the mysterious disappearance of several Marines on leave, the U.S. Secret Service appoints young Art Smith to lead the investigation. Four volunteers decide to assist him in his dangerous undertaking, and prepare to act as bait for the kidnappers.

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...

A Sicilian janitor gets visited by a Madonna statue in his dreams, telling him that she is buried under an olive tree and asking him to help getting her out of the earth.

Through the rehearsals and the tour of the show based on Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Vinicio Marchioni takes us to the Italian province destroyed by the earthquake and the places of the Russian writer. The Vanja earthquake starts from the Chekhovian masterpiece to investigate Italian post-earthquake immobility through the tragicomic gaze of Chekhov, making the public aware of the extraordinary human strength of the writer. A journey into the Italian theatrical creation; a journey in the earthquake that destroyed central Italy; a journey into the words and soul of Anton Chekhov.

Two thirtysomething friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown can no longer cope with the stress created by their wives, jobs, mobile phones, and struggle for survival.

Franco Adami injures a condescending prostitute to photograph her, but escaped from guilt, causing her death by bleeding.

A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.

Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from the notary he learns that he has an illegitimate brother with whom he will have to share half of his inheritance. His brother is called Felice, he works as a waiter in Bari and goes to Florence with a student friend who is indebted to the usurers. A rivalry without quarter begins between the two brothers.

This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation

During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.

Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie is sentimental about love.

On Andrea's birthday, his boss asks him to babysit his son while he's away for work: while Andrea is babysitting, his friends arrive and throw a big party.

This is the follow up documentray to 1978's Speed Fever.

The story of Atalanta's Curva Nord from 1993 to the present day through the eyes of Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti, one of the most charismatic figures among the Bergamaschi ultras. The movie retraces the past thirty years of his life, closely intertwined with the events of the Curva and the ultras world in general, which has been undergoing a frantic and profound evolution.

Three men have been friends since childhood. To win a prize, they steal something from a girl. The girl is not what she seems. Things go downhill for the friends. On a weekend get-away, secrets are revealed, and people end up dead.

Country bumpkin Maria Rosa becomes the new maid in a second-rate Roman hotel. A hole in the wall behind the mirror in her room turns her and a horny bellboy into voyeurs

Rome, 1990s. Gian Luigi, an unscrupulous financial administrator, finds himself embroiled in a journalistic investigation that aims to unmask shady monetary dealings. The recklessness of the fixer has the hours numbered.

Reporter Marcello has a brief encounter with Irene while waiting for a train. A young woman who has lost her sight finds herself falling for the voice of a ship's captain she hears over a radio broadcast. Egle, a massage therapist who is soon to be married, finds herself pursuing one last fling with Gabriele -- though the odds are not in her favor, since he happens to be gay. Elena is a young woman with a child who wants to abandon her husband. And Carla wonders if she has any future at all with her lover -- who is married to someone else.

Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night.

Five friends who form the "inseparables" group spend an evening having a gargantuan dinner. Returning home, one of them has a heart attack and dies. Soon, however, other friends of the group are also found dead under mysterious circumstances. The journalist Olimpo Lupo of "Resto del Carlino", tasked with following the case, soon becomes passionate about it and turns into a detective.

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.

Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.

Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.

A young woman is lured to Cairo, where a cult of devil worshippers wants to sacrifice her.

A father accompanies his son on a trip to the sea, more precisely in the places of childhood, but a bad disease will recur in a more incisive way.

‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the routine, while the Jaguar imparts lessons in life and conquest...