Discoveries from Italy World Cinema

An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and indulges in a sadistic game with them.

An unlikely gang of new criminals decides to kidnap Jerry Calà with the aim of asking for a large ransom and turning their lives around. They will soon discover that things aren't exactly as they imagined. Friends Mara Venier and Umberto Smaila and their son Johnny intervene, playing themselves, but the turning point comes when Massimo Boldi himself declares himself willing to pay the ransom.

Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a privilege neither is willing to concede.

Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters.

Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a beautiful woman named Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting with a cardinal. He pursues her through the streets of Venice and a romance develops. Upon returning from an overseas business trip, he is informed that Lidia has been killed in an accident. Soon afterwards, he thinks he recognizes her at a building site, but the woman claims to be a reporter who is obviously involved with gangsters. Furthermore, all evidence of Lidia's death has now been obliterated. Stefano continues to investigate the mystery, uncovering family intrigues

When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.

15-year-old Giuliana doesn't want to spend the summer with her rich mother, so—without a word—she leaves with Romeo, the son of the janitor of her building, embarking on a backpacking trip through Italy. Her divorced father is worried and decides to go in search of his daughter.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Nicola works on a field along an old mountain road. He sells potatoes grown by his family to passing motorists, while work on the "new road" is about to end. An unexpected encounter will give him the courage to take risks and ... change gears.

A woman searches for her blind sister in this feature-length English-language cut of the TV miniseries Seagull Island (1981).

The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins.

A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.

In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone production of Puccini’s masterpiece at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Filmed in that legendary opera house in 1965, with Zeffireli himself directing for the cameras, this “Bohème” has been acclaimed universally for its unique theatrical impact and visual splendour. Starring the young Mirella Freni in her carreer-making performance. – For the first time the full dimension of opera on film.

The children leave for the school trip and dad and mom board a nice girl who turns out to be the lover of their best friend. Which is then the husband of their best friend ...

Argentina, 1978. On the occasion of the World Cup, two Italian journalists travel to the South American country to provide a report on the event: instead, they will learn about the tragedy of Plaza de Mayo.

Riccardo, Amir, Pietro and Massimo, four security guards, not particularly brilliant or courageous, are bound by an indissoluble friendship. When Amir, who has a large family to support, loses his job, the other three feel called to help him at any cost. Going from a bad idea to an impromptu criminal plan, the four friends will find themselves in a whirlwind of encounters, adventures and pitfalls, but also some surprises. Because our heroes still have more than one trick up their sleeve…

Viviana and Giovanni Renzelli are a married couple living in Turin. He works as a switchboard operator for a large plumbing supplies company. Suddenly, the couple’s life changes when Giovanni hits the jackpot on the Totocalcio, winning 850 million lire.

1918, shortly before the end of the Great War, an Austrian soldier passes the barrier of the Italian lines and escapes. He is very young, alone, scared. During his journey in that enemy land, so similar to his own, the thoughts of the terrible experience on the front alternate with childhood memories. Along the way, death takes him and puts him back into the flow of nature, to which he has always felt he belonged.

Camilla wants to be a ballerina and the upcoming auditions for a dance college will be a great opportunity for her to showcase her talent. But, pushy like a tenacious summer wind, Sara swirls into her life and introduces her to an unfamiliar world made of sex, shopping sprees, soft drugs, parties, and wild friends.

A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best friend's girl. As the Resistance struggle continues, some of the "little teachers" are killed, and the brutal reality of war leaves its mark on their youthful idealism.

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film, for the first time we get close to the unique vision of the controversial Welsh director Peter Greenaway. The intense rehearsals with the actors, his meticulous method of shooting and his thirst for the new audiovisual and technologies are revealed in this documentary.

Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to find his father. Driven by this desire and his imagination, Martin bonds with one of his best clients: Mr. Novoa, a lonely tailor whose only emotional bond is his dog, Astor, a fine German shepherd whom he cares for like a son.

During a trip to the USA Carla falls in love with Charles, an ex-punk rocker now working as a security guard. She returns to Torino, Italy, and breaks the bad news to Francesco, her fiancee; they have a fight, she leaves him and apparently disappears.

Elio, son of fisherman, dreams of living lightly, carefree. But his father would like to see him become a man who takes over the fisherman's trade. So, considering it incapable of doing anything else, he takes Elio with him on cold trawling nights. When the circus arrives in town, Elio discovers a secret world, where it is possible to stay light forever, away from adult life. Does happiness really exist in a world other than the one Elio knows?

Giulia lives with her mother in a house near the forest. On her 14th birthday, she discovers that the forest is in danger and decides to protect it by going to live in a tree.

You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymore. Even though you have everything something keeps on eating you up.

In the First World War, alongside the men fought an army of animals. Mules, oxen, dogs, horses, pigs, pigeons were used for moving units and materials, communications, and for the support of the troops. The forced cohabitation with men closer to each other in a possible fate of death and suffering: officers and enlisted men had the opportunity to give and receive affection, but also to deal with beings weak and completely dependent on their . Animals in the Great War offers an unconventional story of dramatic conflict, through letters, diaries and photographs taken by the fighters, and collected in the book that Lucio Fabi has derived from his research, The good soldier mule (ed. MURSIA). A documentary rebuild memories, stories, episodes of real life relationship, in and out of the trench, between humans and animals, including incredible moments of absolute serenity and tenderness, alternating the background of one of the most tragic periods in modern history.

Marco is married to a gorgeous woman, has a child and a great job. Everything seems perfect, at least until his wife of 25 years announces that she has another man and wants a separation. Marco is forced to leave home.

Nino is a young and poor boy who meets Annamaria, a rich spoiled girl who's on holiday with his father in Capri.

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

With an area three times larger than Pompeii, Baia, about 15 km from Naples and within the volcanic area of the Phlegraean fields, is the largest underwater archaeological site in the world. In 100 BC Pompeii is an ordinary city of small traders crouched on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius, while Baia gains a peculiar reputation: it gradually becomes the ancient Las Vegas or Monte Carlo of the Roman Empire, a real posh center for noble gens and the powerful . Nestled in the center of the Gulf of Pozzuoli, Baia is flanked on one side by the port of Puteoli (ancient Pozzuoli) and on the other by the port of Capo Miseno.

official prequel of American Guinea Pig 4: SACRIFICE directed by Poison Rouge "What have you done, Daniel?" will explain to the audience all the things remained unclear in the first film. Starring cult actress Lynn Lowry, Frank Laloggia and again Roberto Scorza

St. Moritz, Switzerland. On a snowy Christmas Eve in a grand mountain hotel, the lives of five people magically intertwine during a wild night full of extravagant adventures and joyous celebrations.

Mike Gold is trying to nail a terrorist spy ring who he believes killed his partner. His investigation takes him to Beirut where he is ensnared by a faux-damsel in distress called Jane.

A family drama about four siblings, three boys and a girl, who reunite, after several years of distance, after the sudden death of their father.

A sleepless man meets a sleepwalker woman. A nocturnal ballad begins in the quiet city of Novi Ligure. But someone conspires in the darkness of the city…

After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark vengeance, spiritual discipline, and ultimate transcendence, reflecting a journey of inner transformation.

A man tells the story of his three cats.

Siblings Clara and Pietro aren't close, but they share a hatred for the high school that she's recently started attending and that he graduated from years before. Forced to wait in the school with their father, familial tensions arise.

Little Andra and Tati Bucci, Italian Jews from Fiume, were 6 and 4 years old when, on March 29, 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz together with their mother, grandmother, aunt, and little cousin Sergio. They managed to survive the initial selections in the concentration camp because Dr. Mengele mistook them for twins and decided to take them to the Kinderblock, the barracks for children destined for eugenics experiments. The bond they formed with each other and the compassion of a female camp guard allowed the little sisters to survive until the liberation of the camp on January 27, 1945.

The story begins at the stage door after a performance. A cabaret somewhere presenting songs from Dietrich to pop performed by various artists.

Filmed chronicle by mountain filmmaker Mario Fantin, of the 1964-1965 expedition of the Italian mountaineer Guido Monzino to the summits of Hoggar in the Algerian Sahara with the ascents of Garet el Djenoun, Tizouyag Nord, Saouinan and Iharen. The mountain ranges of the Hoggar desert turn out to be more complex and interesting than most mountaineers suspected at the time.

Four sixty-something disgraced comedians - who used to work together - find themselves in a retirement home. They'll join forces again, this time to save the place from bankruptcy.

In an overpopulated and underprivileged suburban neighbourhood, Jacob, a boy immobilised on a wheelchair, fights to protect a girl he spots across the courtyard, doing all he can to warn her of the dark figure entering her room - The Recycling Man.

A gang of bandits takes control of Tucson in preparation for the arrival of a consignment of gold, with only a band of voluntary soldiers trying to outwit them and save the town.

Hamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. He then wages war against his peaceful neighbors, killing their women and enslaving their men. A hero named Ursus appears at a tournament to challenge Hamilan's authority. Though victorious at the tournament, Ursus is arrested and forced to turn a grist-mill under an overseer's lash. Meanwhile, the former king's virtuous daughter, Diana, is tormented by her evil cousin, the new queen. Sentenced to a slow and tortuous execution, Ursus breaks free and a revolt breaks out. Ursus throws Hamilan to his death in a fiery pit and then Ursus and Diana enjoy the cheers of a grateful populace. - Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis