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- When 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.
- Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
- An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.
- Follows a single mother of two sons, who hides her Jewish heritage and fights against poverty and persecution during the end of World War II and post-war Rome.
- In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
- The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
- The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples and their "Mixed by Erry"-trademarked cassettes that brought pop music to 1980s Italian youth.
- Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.
- Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
- Aurora and Alessandro are lovers whose families have a history of enmity. Aurora gets wrongly accused for the murder of Alessandro's father, which creates a rift between the lovers.
- A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
- The story of Italy, from the 80s to nowadays, told through the life of four friends, Giulio, Gemma, Paolo e Riccardo; during 40 years of loves, aspirations, success and failures.
- Recently-widowed homemaker Lisa must find a job. Eventually she finds one at the law firm of Enrico Vinci, a fascinating man with a temper. She doesn't tell him about her two kids, fearing it might cost her the job.
- In 1850 Rome, two imprisoned young murderers--Bernardino and Mammone--await their execution, passing their last hours telling each other stories of lust and castration. The first involves a duke and a clergyman castrating themselves while the lusty duchess and a lusty country girl are left alone. The second is about a Calabrese shepherd who leads his unfaithful wife to eat her lover's testicles, thinking they're from cattle. The third deals with the castration of a priest by the young man after whom he was lusting. The last story is about a different sort of menage-a-trois.
- TV SeriesIt follows Oriana Fallaci, a correspondent who is intelligent, controversial and intolerant of the dynamics of an editorial team composed only of men who get to focus on politics while she's relegated to the role of "film girl".
- Based on Carlo Collodi's classic novel, this mini-series is about an animated puppet named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.
- A country girl becomes involved with a partisan, follows him, and stands by him even when sentenced for crimes.
- A discontented New York family woman called unexpectedly to Tuscany to execute her estranged mother's Will. There, she deciphers visions of her forgotten childhood and confronts a spectral "Lady in Red," whose dark secret unlocks a terrifying destiny.
- When a woman is beaten into a coma and saved from being raped by her handyman (Donald O'Brien), the local security force does a cover-up to save the town's reputation and frames the saviour. After he hangs himself, the woman's strange comatose psi-powers revive him from the dead to exact revenge.
- A crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.
- A psychiatrist named Tony sees two identical twin sisters, Norma and Mary. Norma and Mary are apparently very different from each other, to the point of conflict.
- The funny misadventures of a group of guys serving at a military barrack in the north-east of Italy.
- The life and scandalous loves of early 20th century poet Sibilla Aleramo.
- The drama about a woman that gets fired because of his pregnancy and deals with a difficult financial and familiar situation.
- Marino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.
- When Caterina accepts a job offer in a Hotel in Belgrade, her three friends decide to follow her despite their problems, starting an on the road adventure which will mark a turning point in their lives.
- The Italian armistice and the beginning of resistance to the Germans in Italy during World War II.
- A whole school year in the life of Henri, a young boy from the the Italian bourgeoisie. He meets his new teacher, Mister Perboni, a very devoted man; and children of working-class families such as Garonne, a boy with a heart of gold; De Rossi, top student in the class; and Franti, the young rebel. But will the morals they are taught still be so noble when they become soldiers in WWI?
- Depicts various periods in the life of Saint Francesco (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz): youth and the first conversion in 1206, the process that inflicts his father, the birth of the historical nucleus of Fraternitas and the departure for the Holy Land up to the writing of rules and death, addressing the problem of the legacy of his message in the different interpretation that Chiara (Sara Serraiocco) and Elia (Vinicio Marchioni) will give it.
- Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he will be unexpectedly forced to help an hot witness named Antavleva, protecting her and bringing them safely to the trial.
- The lives of a group of highly-gifted young physicists known as the Via Panisperna Boys, led by Enrico Fermi. One of them, Ettore Majorana, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.
- 7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will. Soon their train breaks and the have to find a way to carry on towards Venice. While they are ponderously traveling through Italy the new Italian government sign the armistice with the Allies: everything will change in Italy, also for our three travelers.
- Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time. The King's Guard captures her, and she finds herself in the same cell with Peter Goodwin, a nobleman - who pretends to be a robber like her, to flirt with her. After her evasion, Mary goes up the ladder in her criminal life - becoming a good pirate under captain Poof. When the captain dies, the only 'man' aboard who is respected by every faction among the pirates is... Mary. She represents a menace to the Florida Governor, who invites a nobleman to lead the King's naval forces against the pirates: Peter Goodwin.
- 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.
- Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
- The film is divided into three episodes, completely distinct from each other.
- The friends Renato and Paolo are on a television set and have the task of carrying a piano in a staircase.
- This film relates several disparate storylines, each representing a different type of lifestyle within Italian society at the time, through their common impersonal relationship to a social event of global importance to Italian society at the time: the death and impending funeral of the long-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.
- In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children alike, Two brothers, who were wild kids, escaped because they were absent to play away from their parents; on their return home, they saw the end of the carnage, and vowed revenge. As adults, they made their name feared by the Maracaïbo Spanish colonists. Yet, jealousy made them fall apart of each other, and eventually one brother died - so the other would survive and be happy with the woman they loved.
- Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute , approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
- Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Uno: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Due: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Tre: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.
- Italian western set in the southern Italy before the unity. Antonio Franco's sister is been murdered by a gang of bandits. He swear vengeance and manage to infiltrate the gang to find the murders.
- A graduate in psychology who accepts a teaching position at a university campus in her hometown: a town she hasn't step foot in for 20 years, after her mother abandoned her as a child in the forest and then disappeared.
- Two men and a woman are approached by this hypnotist and they have a vision from looking into the crystal attribute he's carrying with him.
- The film Gino Bartali is about a famous Italian bicyclist who saved Jews during world war 2.
- A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl. The lives of four people get closer in nowadays Rome.