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- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsMarcello MastroianniSandrine BonnaireZoe IncrocciProfessor Ludovico Bruschi is an elderly Communist whose desire is that of living in an orderly and socially just State. But disorder is just about to break into his life, first of all in the shape of his granddaughter Papere and then in that of Papere's mother Stella, his son's companion. The relationship between Oliviero, Bruschi's son, and Stella has come to an end perhaps because of the extreme youth of the two lovers. Now Professor Bruschi is obliged to come to terms with the gloomy, ignorant, offended Stella whose head is full of false and destructive ideals and who disturbs his way of living out daily life. The professor loses his patience and Stella leaves. He looks for her and finds her in hospital with a broken leg. The two of them begin to grow close and then, without realizing it, they come to love each other immensely. Stella's leg gets better and she goes off to look for new relationships, new experiences, while the Professor goes on waiting for her: and all this in the presence of Papere, too young to understand.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoValentina ScaliciGiuseppe IeracitanoAntonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsSergio CastellittoAnna GalienaAlessia FugardiAn epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsDiego AbatantuonoPenélope CruzStefania SandrelliThe Nativity of Jesus, from Joseph's point of view. When his fiancee Mary confesses she is pregnant he is enraged, believing she has been raped. Only gradually he comes to comprehend her story of the angel's visit.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsSilvio OrlandoAnna GalienaFabrizio BentivoglioIt is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs: the pupils are not really diligent and the teachers give their worst both from a working and personal point of view.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsAnna BonaiutoAngela LucePiero TassitanoWhen an elderly woman dies--apparently happy but in curious circumstances--her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent life. In doing so she starts to confront childhood memories that shaped the family history.
- DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsSilvio OrlandoSabrina FerilliEnnio FantastichiniThe political and cultural controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in the Tirrenian sea.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGiancarlo GianniniMassimo GhiniAnna FalchiThe difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just-ended WWII.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJeremy IronsLiv TylerCarlo CecchiAfter her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsSergio CastellittoTiziana LodatoFranco ScaldatiA photographer and the types of people he encounters.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsJohn TurturroRade SerbedzijaMassimo GhiniBased on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsEmmanuelle LaboritRoberto HerlitzkaLaura MoranteSicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, but at 16 years she already gives him three daughters. During her 20s she is instructed by a French tutor, which teaches her philosophy and all the new ideas that tour around Europe. She also has to manage, after Pietro's death, a relationship with her servant's brother (and following scandal). In her mature age she finally discovers and understands the terrible secret behind his handicap.
- DirectorWilma LabateStarsClaudio AmendolaSilvio OrlandoFrancesca NeriA terrorist is taken from South to North of Italy to meet his woman. What is happening in his mind? Could he betray and speak? It's what the Army official who's taking him to the woman is thinking. And will the woman meet him? She's not sure of her own will.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGiancarlo GianniniMassimo GhiniAnna FalchiThe difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just-ended WWII.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsChristopher LambertDiego AbatantuonoSergio RubiniThe main character Solo in Nirvana, a computer game developed by Jimi for release in 3 days, has gained self-awareness after a virus attack. Solo wants to be deleted. Jimi wants to find his ex.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiSilvio OrlandoSilvia NonoNanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuySilvio OrlandoCarolina FreschiThe rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsTim RothPruitt Taylor VinceMélanie ThierryA baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsThandiwe NewtonDavid ThewlisClaudio SantamariaWhile in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMargi ClarkeKenneth ColleyHenri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?
- DirectorWayne WangStarsJeremy IronsGong LiMaggie CheungThe story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiSilvio OrlandoMariella ValentiniBecause of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsGiancarlo GianniniEmmanuelle SeignerStefania SandrelliAfter his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLucrezia Lante della RovereDavide BechiniFelice AndreasiAt 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.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsLeo GullottaFrancesco AlloccaGaetano AmatoOut-of-work actor Fortunato Assante agrees to take a job teaching drama at a reform school.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsRoberto BenigniPaolo VillaggioNadia OttavianiThe amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, who discover conspiracies to participate in while looking for love.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRenato CarpentieriA principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsKeith CarradineMiranda RichardsonKristin Scott ThomasA Pre-World War I physician in Austria struggles with his decision about which woman he will marry. Miranda Richardson plays the roles of two different women in his life.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoLaura MoranteFabrizio BentivoglioTwo actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMassimo TroisiAnne ParillaudThe visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMichel SerraultMattia SbragiaWhat shall we do with our folks when we, young ones,want to have fun and to make the best of our life ?
- DirectorFrancesco NutiStarsFrancesco NutiIsabella FerrariAnna GalienaWilly gets involved in a car accident. The girlfriend of the man killed in the accident, who is waiting for a baby, blames Willy. So he decides to care for her and for the baby.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsJim BelushiMimi RogersJoss AcklandA candidate for the Mayor of New York City promises to legalize drugs. The mafia, making insane money on illegal drug trade, is about to dissuade him - at all cost.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsMiou-MiouMichel PiccoliMichel DuchaussoyDuring the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
- DirectorDanny DeVitoStarsMichael DouglasKathleen TurnerDanny DeVitoA married couple tries everything to drive each other out of the house in a vicious divorce battle.
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsSergio RubiniMargherita BuyEnnio FantastichiniIt starts as a studio theatre: a good-natured, bit pedantic stationmaster performs his job at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. Eventually a beautiful, obviously very rich young woman enters the station and wants to buy a ticket. She has to wait, they start talking, get closer - high-society meets petty bourgeois. Then suddenly the mood turns around: the woman's fiance appears and tries to prevent the girl from leaving with increasing violence. The stationmaster interferes and the film becomes a thriller about a fight to the death.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsBurt YoungFabrizio BentivoglioValeria MililloItaly 1935: Vittorio works in a matrimonial agency, and although the agency is closed for summer vacations, he tries to find an Italian wife for an American man. At last he finds a suitable girl, but a surprise is awaiting for him.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsClaudio AmendolaRicky MemphisGianmarco TognazziThe "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before.
- DirectorGuido ManuliMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiAngela FinocchiaroMariella ValentiniMartina is a professional lady whose clients are harmless if eccentric; she sees herself as a social worker. Shy Maurizio dubs sound for cartoons while his outgoing brother dubs more saucy material and gets the girls. After Maurizio accidentally helps Martina on some of her assignations she decides to find out if he wants to help regularly. Whether or not it's the possibility of romance, Maurizio is horrified to find on their first date that his hands have been replaced by cartoon ones with minds of their own.
- DirectorAndrea BarziniStarsMassimo GhiniGiuseppe CedernaFabrizio BentivoglioIt's everyone's dream to travel through the time and...what's happened! Three friends are going to meet to watch (or to re-live) on TV the important football match Italia-Germania, played in 1970's World Cup. But the football game is a pretext to recall twenty years before...
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsPaolo VillaggioMilena VukoticGigi RederNew misadventures of Accountant Fantozzi, including managing his nephew Ughina's film career and being juror in a Mafia trial.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsVittorio MezzogiornoAndrzej SewerynClaire NeboutA girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVincent PerezEmmanuelle BéartMassimo TroisiEn route to Paris, a group gets lost during a storm and seeks refuge in a castle owned by a ruined nobleman, who wants to join the group's trek to Paris.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneOrnella MutiSergio CastellittoSaverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds out that he cheated on her with a comely girl named Alice.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsLuca BarbareschiNino ManfrediJacques Perrin1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsTom HulceLolita DavidovichAleksandr ZbruevThe true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
- DirectorMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiFrancesca NeriMarco MesseriTommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsTommaso BiancoRenato CecchettoMarina ConfaloneDuring the Christmas celebrations, a surprising announcement takes a family by surprise and threatens to break the delicate balance that regulates the familial relationships.
- DirectorEmidio GrecoStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRicky TognazziReturning from abroad to Sicily, a former diplomat informs the police about a strange discovery he has just made. The next day, police inspector Lepri comes to the man's place and finds him dead. Has he committed suicide? While conducting his investigation, Lepri happens to suspect his own commissioner - Meanwhile, a train comes to a stop somewhere in the countryside because of a malfunctioning signal. A motorist decides to alert the station master but he too is found dead, as well as another railway agent. For the police, the driver cannot but be linked to those mysterious deaths.
- DirectorFrancesco NutiStarsFrancesco NutiCarole BouquetGastone MoschinThe story of love between Renzo, a naive dentist, and Margherita, a troubling feminist. They go thru difficulties and eventually get old together.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsPhilippe NoiretJacqueline BissetSergio CastellittoAn funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiPaolo BonacelliA kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMia FarrowMichael KirbyWith a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsJean-Hugues AngladeJuliet AubreyJenner Del VecchioAmsterdam, 1942: four-year-old Jonah and his parents are deported to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany where the child learns to cope with an incomprehensible world of war, brutality and persecution.
- DirectorCarlo CarleiStarsManuel ColaoFederico PacificiSal BorgeseThe boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsCarla GravinaJacques PerrinPaolo GraziosiCarla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is surrounded by terror and threats.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLuigi DibertiArnaldo NinchiMassimo BellinzoniDuring the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsDiego AbatantuonoMargherita BuySilvio OrlandoThe Milanese judge Damiano Fortezza, back from a hot and personal crisis, is sent to a small town in Southern Italy.
- DirectorAlessandro Di RobilantStarsGiulio ScarpatiSabrina FerilliLeopoldo TriesteThe true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
- DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsMichele PlacidoAnna BonaiutoMassimo BonettiThe story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. Giovanni Falcone was the most important of them: he discovered the liaisons between mafia and politicians, working along with Rocco Chinnici and Paolo Borsellino. Rocco Chinnici was killed by Mafia in the middle '80s, with a bomb. Giovanni Falcone was killed by mafia in 5/23/1992, with more than 100 kilograms of TNT placed under the highway between Palermo and the Punta Raisi airport, and he died along with his wife and three police officers from the VIP Protection Bureau. Paolo Borsellino was killed by mafia 50 days later, with a bomb-car placed under his mother's house, and he died along with many police officers from the VIP Protection Bureau.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMaria BakòPhilippine Leroy-BeaulieuPietro Di Leo, security officer of a department store in Milan, where the girl he is dating also works as a make-up artist, is separated from his wife and with a son that he only sees on weekends. He is a very dissatisfied man, whose psychosomatic suffering (loss of nose bleeds, outbursts of anger, visions) reveals a situation of profound discomfort. One day, however, he meets Pabe, a young Roma who has to get rid of the warehouse and who will then let go when she is caught stealing a perfume. At first intrigued, but then increasingly fascinated, Pietro decides to help her
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsAngela BettisJohnathon SchaechEva AlexanderIn 1854, a cholera epidemic hits Catania, Sicily. 16-year-old novice Maria leaves her convent and returns home to avoid the plague. Her stepmother and half-sisters prevent her from living the typical life of a young girl. In their minds, she is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life is inappropriate for her. Nevertheless, she falls in love with neighbor Nino. Her freedom ends abruptly when she is forced to return to the convent.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoSean PennPenelope Ann MillerA Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsClaudio BigagliSabrina FerilliMassimo GhiniThe expectations, the desires and the failures of three characters involved in a love triangle, set in Italy's early 90s.
- DirectorSandro BaldoniStarsFlavio BonacciConsuelo StrangaroneIvano MarescottiDuring a train journey, to please his bored daughter, a father tells her three stories. In the first a man discovers that, because he hasn't payed the air-bill, he can't breath any more. The run to the air-office is full of problems. In the second a lonely woman buys in a supermarket a man marked "tender". When she comes to know that the "product" is out of date, she gives it back furiously. In the third story the natural antipathy between two families, who differ by social status, geographical and cultural origin, becomes worse and worse, until a true war. In the end the train stops in the countryside, the passengers get down curiously, and discover the rest of the "Italicus", a train destroyed by a bomb in the 70's. The true responsibles were never discovered: another weird story...
- DirectorAlberto SimoneStarsTchéky KaryoNino ManfrediIsabelle PascoLorenzo, a milanese astrophysicist, has recently inherited a country house in Sicily and has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts his job with the help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be very slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them and finds out that Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first he's very angry but then his good heart prevails.
- DirectorGiacomo CampiottiStarsFabrizio BentivoglioGiancarlo GianniniIgnazio OlivaGabriele is a successful antiques dealer in Paris, but he's dogged by dreams of his childhood in Italy, where he was raised by a loving mother, the kept mistress of Gabriele's father, a wealthy patriarch. When she dies, Gabriele is "adopted" into his father's affluent family, but his bastard status elicits resentment and cruelty from his step-brothers. Still hurting and haunted years later, Gabriele hatches a plan for revenge.
- DirectorAlessandro BenvenutiStarsAlessandro BenvenutiEva RobinsAndrea BrambillaLeo has a marriage crisis. Fortunately he has to go to another town for work. In the new town he's followed by a mysterious person. One day he has collapses and gets first aid from the mysterious person. He awakes at home and realizes that the mysterious person is his cousin Giulio, who he has never met for many years, and has become... ...Giulia, a very charming girl.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMichele PlacidoOmero AntonuttiAn intriguing look at a sinister web of power, linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsMarcello MastroianniJoaquim de AlmeidaDaniel AuteuilPortugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. There is civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power in Portugal, but he concerns himself only with his work (writing biographies of famous writers and translating French novels) and ignores what is going on around him. He hires Monteiro Rossi, an idealistic young man in love with a beautiful communist, as an assistant. He reluctantly helps them when they begin to get into trouble due to subversive activities. Eventually events force him to take a stand.
- DirectorGérard CorbiauStarsStefano DionisiEnrico Lo VersoElsa ZylbersteinThe story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsGiancarlo GianniniRaoul BovaRicky MemphisTuri Leofonte (Giannini) is a former mafioso who accepts to be a witness at a process involving very important people in the organization. For the Mafia, Leofonte is dangerous, that's why he has to be killed. A police group led by Nino Di Venanzio(Bova) accepts to protect him and to escort him till Milan where the process has to take place.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMargherita BuyGalatea RanziA grandmother writes a diary for her nephew, her grandson finds the diary after her death and finds out the true family story.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsStefania SandrelliRaoul BovaLucia CaraDuring World War II, in a small Italian village, Nunziata is an easy woman married to cuckold tailor Gioacchino. Her teenage daughter Miluzza teases men with her clothes and gets them to lust after her. One day Nunziata dies having sex with an Italian corporal at home and Miluzza finds a job in the factory of the wealthy Don Peppe, who rapes her. When she returns home she learns that Gioacchino died that afternoon. Soon there are rumors that Miluzza had an affair with Don Peppe, but her grandfather protects her. Then Miluzza's village is bombed, her grandpa dies, and she moves to another town to live with a friend. When she finds Italian soldier Pietro wounded in the leg in her house, Miluzza saves his life and helps him return to his family. Pietro proposes to marry her, but her mother wants to prove that Miluzza is virgin before blessing the marriage.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsWilliam HurtCharlotte GainsbourgAnna PaquinJane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside of the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsHarvey KeitelWilliam HurtGiancarlo EspositoA Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsVincent LindonSabrina FerilliLuca ZingarettiFrancesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniWim WendersStarsFanny ArdantChiara CaselliIrène JacobFour stories about short or long relationships between men and women in Italy and France.
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsEmmanuelle BéartMichel SerraultJean-Hugues AngladeWhen Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.
- DirectorFulvio OttavianoStarsDaniele LiottiFrancesca SchiavoValerio MastandreaSergio has a degree in botanics but he cannot find a job. While he tries to get one, following the techniques written in a 'mistake-free' book, his life gets shaken by his noisy room-mate Enzo and the announcement that his former girlfriend Rita is getting married.
- DirectorEnzo D'AlòStarsDario FoMary Tyler MooreLella CostaA group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.
- DirectorPasquale PozzessereStarsFabrizio BentivoglioClaudio AmendolaArnaldo NinchiWhen Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic experiences he suffers leaves him wondering if he should have remained silent.
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsIaia ForteMaurizio NichettiIvano MarescottiSchoolteacher Luna has a darker side. When a traveling carnival comes to town, Luna visits a conjurer who frees her shadow with a magic lantern. Luna's shadow proves to be as mischievous and sexy as Luna is repressed.
- DirectorGabriele LaviaStarsMonica GuerritoreGiancarlo GianniniMichele PlacidoShe was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.
- DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsSilvio OrlandoClaudia PandolfiDuilio Del PreteThe boys of grammar school where teaches Professor Vincenzo Lipari, Italian teacher, are in serious crisis.
- DirectorAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiStarsAldo BaglioGiovanni StortiGiacomo PorettiThree friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMonica BellucciFrancesca d'AlojaMarco GialliniItalians celebrate New Year's Eve different ways - getting high, cheat on a wife, revenge, spy on a cute naked neighbor, suicide attempt, hire a gigolo or call girl, have a party, crash one etc.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsDiego AbatantuonoInés SastreDario CantarelliIncredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her marriage and marry the best man. And although she is able to dissolve her marriage, because she has never consummated it, the best man leaves... only to return to her many months later.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsLicia MagliettaValeria GolinoAngela MarraffaA study of the friendship between two contemporary Italian women. One is a pharmacist from the affluent North East, while the other is an impoverished shop assistant living in the South East.
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsSergio RubiniGiovanna MezzogiornoCarlo MucariOn September 2nd, 1636, Porzia Maria Colonna leaves the Atri Convent. She has to reach her betrothed and she is escorted as the hazards are many. In fact, after a bandit assault, the survivors are only three: Porzia, a Captain and Bortolo, a groom. Later the captain too is killed. Porzia and Bortolo begin then an adventurous journey, a journey not only in a dangerous and unknown territory, but also a journey into their respective ways of thinking and conceiving life. A journey which will take them so close by, that at the end, Porzia will ask Bortolo to go with him. Bortolo will refuse, aware of the impossibility of the thing in the society of the time. The seeds of knowledge, however, spread during the long journey will bear fruits.
- DirectorLuciano LigabueStarsStefano AccorsiLuciano FedericoAlessio ModicaLooking back at stories and myths of an Italian small town in the mid-70s.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsGiorgio PasottiBarbora BobulovaClaudio SantamariaMatteo is a twenty-year-old who is impulsive and hardly committed to his studies. He and Margherita fall in love. She is a young, strong Slavic woman who is older than him and who has already taken her place in the world of work. However, Matteo's insecurity ruins this potentially very beautiful love story. His jealousy transforms itself into a morbid obsession. Things are getting worse and worse at school too. Is everything sliding down towards a tragic epilogue?
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsDiego AbatantuonoFrancesca NeriStefania SandrelliIn 1997 Bologna, Giulia is the perfect wife to Paolo and the accomplished mother of teenagers Luca and Roberta. Compared to her mother Vera, her father Alessio, her sister, and her brother, she is even beyond perfection. Nonetheless, she unexpectedly breaks down right in the middle of the preparation of the traditional family Christmas meal and runs away from home.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsFanny ArdantAntonio CataniaFrancesca d'AlojaA multitude of characters face personal problems while having dinner in a roman restaurant.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoFabrizio BentivoglioRocco PapaleoIn the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching.
- DirectorAntonio AlbaneseStarsAntonio AlbaneseLorenza IndovinaAisha CeramiAlex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. Alex is the only one who has never left home, a no gooder photographer, fat and happy to be tended by his several female relatives. Ivo emigrated to the North of the country a few years back, has become a hard man, an industrialist who breeds ferocious dogs to have his workers bitten. Pacifico is the best of this odd trio : he is a meek high school teacher who still knows how to take pleasure from the little things in life.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsFrancesco PaolantoniMassimo GambaccianiPiero GremigniThree factory workers who lose their jobs when their employer closes shop decide to join forces and open an ostrich ranch, in hopes that ostrich meat will find favor on Italian dinner tables.