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- In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
- A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- A neglected homemaker has an affair behind her boring husband's back, triggering a passionate transformation. Now, a dash of infidelity awakens his dormant enthusiasm for her. But is his newfound interest a case of too little, too late?
- Set in the 1950s Italian countryside, the film tells the story of Lola and Masetto, a young couple whose views on premarital sex differ drastically.
- The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
- Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever.
- Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
- The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
- A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.
- A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
- Ulderico Quario hires a very beautiful young woman as a servant: Teresa AKAS Tirisin. He decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion. He teaches her the art of seductions. But she together with Cecchina starts using the new skills to oblige him to marry her and later to get all his inheritance. But none can seduce the destiny.
- A young pope who feels he has lost touch with the people accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican and believes it is part of God's plan for him.
- Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.
- The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.
- Twenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair's lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.
- A young and beautiful woman is stalked by two young men through stunning Italian landscapes.
- A child suspected of killing his father is imprisoned in a mental hospital. A doctor finds him mentally healthy and begins to suspect another explanation.
- Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (Silvio Orlando). Sandulli is a very good and polite person, he is positive and full of hopes, but unluckily his economic position is disastrous. So he immediately accepts the new job. He has to write all the speeches of the minister, and soon became a sort of mentor. In fact his first impact with Rome and his politician world is positive, Sandulli is really convinced the young minister want really change the situation working for the common interest. But step by step, nevertheless his economic and familiar situation gets a lot of benefits by his new job, he enters in a world in which intrigues and corruption are the only laws. The honest Sandulli will react trying to resist to the cynic world of Botero. He will come back to his students.
- A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager.
- Lea's only son Michele has to endure his mother's zealous affection . She is convinced she rescued him by making a deal with Death. When his son gets engaged to a woman, Lea is ready to make a new deal with Death.
- Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
- In this touching real-life drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II. Adapted from Aharon Megged's book "The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land."
- Vittorio Borghi, a middle-aged journalist torn between young mistress and wife he no longer loves, returns to his hometown Mantua. There he remembers childhood in the era of fascism, war and ghost of another woman he never forgot.
- After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.
- In this adaptation of a classic Italian novel, young peasant couple whose relationship no one approves of elopes. On their journeys they face the horrors of plague and war and hypocrisy of the ruling class in 17th century's Lombardy.
- In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
- Berta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni.
- Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
- Mantova, Italy. Martine is trapped in crossfire between bank robbers and police. While trying to escape, Martine (Elsa Mollien) is shot and dead by a bullet triggered by a policeman, Leonardo (Adriano Giannini). After the accident, Leonardo meets a beautiful woman walking in the rain, Sandrine (Sara Forestier) who brings drastic changes to Leonardo's life, and who harbors a dark secret.
- An Italian professor seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of an old building.
- Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans to seduce her. When Count Monterone confronts the Duke for seducing his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them.
- Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (16 November 1892 - 11 August 1953) was an Italian racing driver. First he raced motorcycles and then he concentrated on sports cars and single-seaters. Resident in Mantua, he was known as 'Il Mantovano Volante' (The Flying Mantuan) and nicknamed 'Nivola'. Ferdinand Porsche called him "the greatest driver of the past, the present, and the future."
- The feature doc takes a look behind the scenes at top-class restaurants and offers exclusive interviews with celebrity chefs from France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, the USA and Japan.
- The story of Tyrolean folk hero Andreas Hofer, who led his people in their resistance against the occupation of their country by Bavarian troops in the year 1809.
- Twenty-four hours before his wedding, two unexpected romances threaten Arturo's wedlock.
- How were Renzo and Lucia before becoming the protagonists of the events told in Manzoni's "The Betrothed"? Second part of the miniseries based on the famous italian tale: the misadventures of the extremely unlucky lovers and their obstacles to get married. Will Renzo and Lucia succeed in crowning their love, despite the difficulties and their tragic historical period?
- Summer of 2012. In a small country town recently struck by a huge earthquake, young Clara tries to preserve a place that has been important during her growth.
- Giulia is driving in her car in the dark, silent night. She's hiding a corpse in the trunk. What happened? How did we get to this?
- Two very different projectionists from Vienna go on a road trip, in order to find ones childhood dream.
- The vocal ensemble Profeti della Quinta travel to Mantua, Italy to perform the music of Jewish composer Salomone Rossi Hebreo. They shed light on this mysterious figure who revolutionized Jewish music in the 17th century.
- Pietro shoots for a penalty. After his shot he collapses. He is taken to the hospital to recover. The doctors can't find anything wrong with him. He then meets Thomas, a wildlife photographer, who happens to be an ex-soccer-pro. Thomas agrees to train Pietro. Pietro dislikes the methods Thomas uses.
- Edmund White in 2010 during a lecture at the Mantua Literary Festival in Italy. He's talking about his books, gay life and politics aspects.
- John Eliot Gardiner explains the background to the composition of the 'Vespers of the Blessed Virgin' by Claudio Monteverdi before conducting a performance by the Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists.