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- During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
- Ramón Alvia is a professional boxer who, although he has won several international championships, is old and is at the end of his career. He resists. In the gym, Ramon discovers among the young boxers Deborah, a beautiful girl.
- Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church.
- While Suzanna and her husband have just moved into their private property for the summer, it is shocked by a scene of violence they witness on the way races.
- A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
- A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
- As Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
- In the 19th century, a wandering drunkard in Italy is cast out of his village for a crime. He is exiled to Tierra del Fuego, where he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption.
- Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.
- Massimo is a dentist from Latina, happily married with two daughters. One day he goes down to the cellar for housework and finds a girl tied up and gagged, asking for help.
- A twelve-year-old boy from an abusive, dysfunctional family meets a kindred spirit during a summer holiday by the sea.
- A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
- The art of cinema recounted in first person by Bernardo Bertolucci. Through a editing that articulates his declarations and thoughts in a flow of intense feelings, psychological introspection, anecdotes and visions, we are offered an insight into the identity of an authentic and extraordinary practitioner of the art of mise-en-scène. It took the authors two years of work, delving with patience and enthusiasm into over three hundred hours of library footage from archives all over the world, to complete their film essay Bertolucci on Bertolucci.
- An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
- 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".
- Angela, an Italian-American woman, after many years returned to Sicily to attend the funeral of her father. During the ferry trip she meets Salvo, a teenager boy who claims to be hunted by the Mafia, because of a quantity of drugs he stole to some criminals. She decides to give him a ride and the two embark on a journey through Sicily. His amorous attentions are soon obvious, and leads to a fairly obvious ending.
- Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
- Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.
- Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, Luana starts working with him as a maid. Now the time has come for an affair which he has ignored for some years.
- A series of vignettes set in a huge shopping mall.
- An American journalist pretends to be infected with A.I.D.S. to investigate the syndrome and provoke a public reaction.
- Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
- Marco is a 35-year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father.
- Persecuted by his father for being different, androgynous boy Davide, 14, leaves home to live on the streets of Catania.
- The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.
- Three surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.
- Depicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe.
- An homage to Italian director Sergio Corbucci of the 1960s and contemporary director Quentin Tarantino, recounting a memorable period in Italian cinema with the sensibility of today.
- Mimì is an orphaned adolescent with malformed feet who works in a Naples pizzeria. He encounters Carmilla, a young girl who believes she is a descendent of Count Dracula, on a fateful day. They decide to leave their society together.
- Giacomo, 35 years of laziness, is a man who doesn't know and doesn't want to fight. He is a introvert curmudgeon, a little bit nerd but not very social, who walks with the look downward on his device without giving to the people what they would like from him: only a little bit of attention and enthusiasm. He loses his job, he is left by his wife and coincidentally he remains closed in the restroom of the avant garde cinema together with the owner's small pincher. The world has attacked him and his reaction was to clam up, like a child would do, deciding to remain closed in that bathroom, safe from any threats, failure, and away from the others. His action is insane, childish,extreme but it makes concrete a desire that every man has. Giacomo, in that bathroom, feels like a fetus in his mother womb. And so he took the most important and no sense decision of his life: he decided to remain there, closed in that bathroom, at least for a while, a sort of quarantine. This could be the epilogue of a dramatic story, but on the contrary our story starts here. This fool coward and childish action leads to unimaginable consequences. The news become viral, it bounces from newspapers, to television and social network. Giacomo becomes a myth, a kind of oracle, who answers to the question of many visitors who daily crowd the entrance of the bathroom. Thanks to this action he tighten relationship with the owner of the cinema. What about his wedding? His previous life? How Giacomo will manage to extricate himself between his new life and old one?
- The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey's end does not bring what they were hoping for.
- While a trial involving murder, manslaughter and armed robbery is being conducted inside the courtroom, the two daughters of the accused are sentenced to wait outside in the hallway.
- Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Everything is going for her: she has a successful professional career, loves her family, has enough money for a comfortable life, and has plans for the future. After arriving to the country, a strange feeling takes hold of her. She starts feeling the presence of something that moves the treetops at night, makes the dogs howl, and wanders like the breath of a ghost across the infinite countryside. A stinging feeling that kills all her certainties. In the middle of the night Elisa wakes up. The moonlight shines on her face. She looks at her husband, asleep beside her, her look lingers on the body of the man with whom she has spent so many hours, a body that now seems to her that of a stranger. She gets up and runs to her daughter's room. She gently places her hand on the little girl's chest to make sure she is breathing. She looks at the vast field. She will not be able to sleep again.
- On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can't get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?
- Sent to cover a story on the exploitation of tribal people, Upin meets a woman he believes is the epitome of Indian beauty. His pictures of her change both of their lives forever.
- Ugo (Luca Zingaretti) is a crooked banker with a shifty hand for finances. Rita (Valeria Golino) is a by-the-books finance officer determined to bring Ugo to justice.
- The tension is extreme in this area of the planet. Diversities are many, pressure here has a destructive potential. But not always.Yet tension can be creative, it can be both destructive and creative. This is the reason why every writer who travels through this place is fascinated by the power of these lands and these peoples. The Author doesn't want to just get off the train and then on again, he wants to carry a memory and a hope. Not only a memory, and not only a hope. Maybe it is possible to coexist with a past without giving up one's visions. Maybe it is possible to harbor a hope without disconnecting from the past. A train passes slow across the heart of the Balcans. This is a train that has a lot to tell.
- Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
- This documentary recounts the lives of Roberto Rossellini's children from the perspective of Alessandro Rossellini, the first grandson of the director.
- Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.
- Smart, quick-witted Julie is in her mid-20s. She marches to the beat of her own drum and has her own manifesto: do nothing. And she really means NOTHING: no work, no studies, no friends. Agnes is a happy-go-lucky nurse of the same age. With a husband and a child, she fits into society's expectations without giving them any great thought--until, that is, she meets Julie. Together they start a rebellion that brings them to the limits of their respective worlds. Stay Still is the story of a generation with a poetic, witty undercurrent. Dangerous, but very exciting.
- The passage of time in different dimensions illustrated by biological evolution, the changing seasons and the everyday moments of human life.
- On his deathbed in the 1820s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by remembering his younger days when he was allowed to go hunting, have fun, and invent love games. Then he was obliged to marry Maria Carolina of Austria, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, in a political marriage. They unexpectedly became happy lovers, until court power games divided them and a different historical season arrived.
- Alessandro and Pietro, both aged 16, film themselves with a cell phone to tell the story of their friendship, the tragedy of Davide, and their everyday lives if the difficult Traiano district of Naples.
- The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony celebrates the film industry's best and biggest in cinema for the year 2016 with host Jimmy Kimmel, including awards for best actors, directors, songs, original screenplays and motion picture.
- In an old warehouse, on the outskirts of the Sicilian capital, a group of people crushes their arms and legs with a trolley full of gym weights
- A taxi driver who lives in Napoli spend his time on his uncle's car thinking about happiness. His former brother took a road for happiness practicing Buddhism while he is always sad and melancholic. He listens to a radioshow called the art of happiness as a remembering idea of what is the goal of life. Do we have just one life or are we living again and again forever?
- Two cars come face to face in a narrow street in Italy. When neither one of the drivers wants to back down to let the other pass, within no time the whole village is involved.