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- In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
- A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions.
- Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
- Fin has to go back in time to rejoin his shark-battling friends to stop the first Sharknado and save humanity.
- American seminary student Michael Kovak travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.
- With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, and Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.
- When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
- The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
- A group of patients coming from many mental health departments throughout Italy, a psychiatrist (Dr. Santo Rullo) as sports director, a former five-a-side football player (Enrico Zanchini) as coach and a world boxing champion (Vincenzo Cantatore) as athletic trainer. These are the protagonists of Crazy for Football, a documentary by Volfango De Biasi on the first Italian national five-a-side team participating the world cup for psychiatric patients in Osaka, a trip from Italy to Japan. The film begins with the selection of the group of 12 who will join the retreat and eventually will reach the most coveted tournament, the World Championship. However, to act as a leitmotif there is another, deeper trip, through the rapids of conscience of those who knew the loss of psychiatric illness. A balanced path between health and insanity that belongs to all of us. A movie where players and not their illness are the protagonists, with the scope of fighting the prejudice that surrounds those suffering from mental illness. Motion as an antidote to the static, therefore football as a saving therapy, a condition that makes everyone feel equal, as said correctly by Dr. Santo Rullo in a scene of the film: "this experience brings to their mind the emotional memory of the time when they were not sick".
- Intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.
- A love story told through the memories of two nameless lovers in different stages of their lives.
- Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
- Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
- In order to avoid the death of the husband (the criminal boss Don Vincenzo, "King of the Fish"), Donna Maria sends her henchmen to kill a lookalike (a shoe-seller) and then she sets up a fake funeral, while the husband is hiding in a secret place. But a nurse saw Don Vincenzo alive in the hospital while he was supposed to be dead, as the TV says. To hush the witness up, Don Vincenzo orders to his best trained bodyguards, Ciro and Rosario, to find the nurse and kill her. Ciro finds the nurse: surprisingly she is Fatima, the only girl he ever loved, which he had abandoned when he began his criminal career. To save her, Ciro hides Fatima by his uncle Mimmo, and starts a bloody fight with all his clan, including his best friend Rosario.
- The son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
- A story that sees love and pay sex mix, crime and hope, tragic and comic, forming a variegated mosaic in which the periphery is a monstrous giant stranded on the edge of a large city.
- For nearly two years of exploring the "Great Ring Road's" almost 70km of looping highway, Gianfranco Rosi brings to the foreground the daily routine of ordinary people, composing the profile of a microcosm on the outskirts of Great Rome.
- At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
- The owners of an Italian textile factory sell majority of property to a multinational company.
- Autobiographical story about an assistant director who receives an offer to shoot a film in Iraq.
- The Pantani Affair explores the last five years of the life of the italian champion among the events in Madonna di Campiglio and his death in Rimini.
- Sandro and Luciano come to know each other by working together, Sandro dreams of becoming a writer while Luciano dreams of opening a restaurant with WiFi in Cuba.
- Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer.
- At 39 years of age Mirko has just left prison. In the outskirts of Rome, a new future waits for him. When he is elected president of the homeowners' committee, he realizes he can dream of a different kind of existence.
- "The 1942 World Cup does not appear in any history book, but was played in Argentine Patagonia." Osvaldo Soriano. Futbol, 1995. The film reconstructs the mysterious story of the 1942 Patagonia World Soccer championship, never acknowledged by the official sports organizations, and which for decades have remained shrouded in legend without the winner ever being known.
- Grazia is 17 and lives in a small town in the South of Italy. Her brother Pietro disappeared years ago; she was told he was dead and her father never wanted to talk about it. One night, after a fight, Grazia enters into the sea and sees a human figure, in which she recognises her brother. That night she decides to search for him, breaking the rule of silence to which her father has always obeyed.
- A man aboard a red 500, similar to a time machine, takes us back to the 80s, between dream and reality, to introduce us to Candida. She is a young, beautiful woman, full of life and loving towards her three children: she goes to pick them up from school, takes them to play in the park, buys them an ice cream. Candida smiles. The same smile that, after a time jump of thirty years, we rediscover today on his aged face. It is always beautiful, but the gaze is absent, far away. Because Candida now has Alzheimer's. His children are adults and each has taken its own path. Now they are the ones who go to visit their mother in the nursing home that hosts her, walk with her in the park and offer her an ice cream. Moments of sweetness and suffering during which the children wonder about the best way to ensure a peaceful existence for the elderly and fragile mother. Candida remembers their names but barely recognizes them. Who knows if he is still able to grasp and share their emotions?
- Three different stories in three different European countries, which are intertwined and almost echo each other. A young hostess afraid of flying, a painter working with a young talented Romani girl and a reporter who is in a state of trauma through experiences from war, keeping him from functioning normally and working.
- Lorenza Mazzetta's "genius" resides in her fantastic and profound outlook which she experiences and uses to tell her extraordinary story and to create the many works that derive from this. Adopted as a little girl by the Einstein family, which was to be exterminated by the SS before her eyes, in the early 1950s she went to London in order to forget. She managed to enter the well-known Slade School of Fine Art, having asked to be accepted "Because I'm a genius!" - she didn't know what else to say. She steals a movie camera, becomes a director, and shoots K, a film about the person she feels closest to: Kafka. She establishes Free Cinema and revolutionizes British film together with Lindsay Anderson, Kael Reisz, and Tony Richardson. For Together, her second film, one about two deaf and dumb laborers in a London being bombed by the Germans, she wins an award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Having returned to Italy, she finds Paola, her twin sister. She remembers a tragedy that she had repressed, and so writes Il cielo cade, the funny yet tragic diary of a little girl who talks about fascism, the war, and what happened to her. In the film we meet this woman, who still exhibits all the freedom of childhood, through her memories, animations of her paintings, life today, her friends, and the witnesses to her story: Bernardo Bertolucci, Malcolm McDowell, and David Grieco.
- Three foreign teenagers, or more accurately second-generation Italians, throw caution to the wind and express their aspirations, affection, humor and rage in front of the video camera. The waiting, the resentment, the dreams, the irony and the isolation used as a defensive mechanism.
- Alberto is a journalist and film critic with a passion for the "geography of cinema". Angelina is a young foreign photographer who moved to Rome a few years ago. Alberto has finally decided to dedicate himself to a new project: writing a book - an essay somewhere between tourist guide and historiographical reconstruction - with the aim of pointing out all, or almost all, of Rome's locations for famous film sequences. He therefore revisits some of those sets, while Angelina records, through her photo camera, all Alberto's investigations and interviews. "It is thanks to the films that have been shot here, thanks to their 'memory', that Rome goes from being ancient to modern and alive. Really thanks to those film makers that let themselves become involved in this journey. They are the guarantors of memory and the custodians of its modernity." (Francesco Matera)
- A documentary on the life and works of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. It features archival interviews with the actor and also reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues.
- Matteo, a 25-year-old student who suffers from panic attacks and is a skilled billiard player, lives in Rome, together with his friends Sandro, a gambler, and Nicola. In the neighborhood there is also Dr. Carlo, a local boss, with his son Pistacchietto, a twenty-year-old drug addict. One day, Sandro challenges Dr. Carlo by losing three rentals and, to fix things, involves Matteo in a game of billiards against the boss. The stakes are Matteo's mother's machine, promptly lost by the boy. However, the situation takes a bad turn when the three friends find Pistacchietto's body in the trunk of the car. With the car towed away by local police on the pedestrian crossing, Matteo, Sandro and Nicola will have three days to recover it, get rid of the corpse and pay off the debt with Dr. Carlo.
- Marco has find his girlfriend in bed with another man. Shocked, he leaves home, but something goes wrong and a terrifying nightmare will definitely change his life.
- A prisoner in a small dark and dusty room, a man awaits his fate and clings to his memories, that last glimmer of light that still keeps him alive. And while life is consumed by the dark, outside those walls, in an even darker prison, there are those who move between furtive glances of the people, relentlessly looking for signs and traces left behind, searching for revenge. Now there is little time to wait. The light is falling. Someone will die tonight.
- Two cleaners are cleaning a basement. It seems like a job like any other, but the two can't tell anyone what they do and their job is shrouded in mystery.
- How does it end? Tragedy or Comedy? Three confused screenwriters engaged in a close dialogue for an uncertain ending between logic and nonsense. The answer may be at hand, camouflaged inside the misleading shoes of an eccentric waiter.
- Salvatrice Elena Greco's journey starts in Tunis in 1933, and does not stop there anymore. Between successes, loves, defeats, encounters, processes, lights, silences and kebabs, the portrait of a woman that everyone believes they know, but that few really understand: Sandra Milo.
- The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1939-1952 looks at film-making during and immediately after World War II. Hollywood films shift away from soft focus and begin to use the techniques of deep staging and deep focus as in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) and Orson Wells's Citizen Kane (1941). It then looks at Italian Neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica before examining the development of Film Noir in the films of Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, and Ida Lupino. American films grow more serious though romantic film remain popular. In the late 40's, American cinema is investigated for communist activities and producers, actors, and directors are blacklisted. Meanwhile in Britain, Carol Reed creates the Noir classic The Third Man (1949)
- The Story of Film examines European cinema in the period of 1957-1964. It first looks at the works of influential directors Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Jacques Tati, and Federico Fellini. It examines the French New Wave Movement including the work of Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard). It then looks at New Wave filmmakers in Italy (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Luchino Visconti, and Michelangelo Antonioni). Finally, it looks at the New Wave directors in Spain (Marco Ferreri, Luis Buñuel) and Sweden (Vilgot Sjöman).