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- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValerio MastandreaMicaela RamazzottiStefania SandrelliA misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.Una cosa bella to spend an early sunday evening in a cinema. Not only to find out why swimming in the sea is the best piece of advice you could get in your life ...
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsRiccardo ScamarcioNicole GrimaudoAlessandro PreziosiTommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.I mine vaganti you find in every family for sure. But rarely a movie showed the navigation of the family members though them more amusing ...
- 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.Yes, life is beautiful with movies like this. Maybe because of movies like this one ...
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
- DirectorTonino CerviStarsOrnella MutiSenta BergerCapucineA background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
- DirectorAlessandro IngargiolaStarsAnna ValleAnna Maria MalipieroOne night, a killer is seemingly stalking two lesbian lovers in their flat. Is it all a bad dream, simple paranoia or a real threat that's closer than they think?
- DirectorAntonello De LeoStarsClaudia GeriniPere PonceLuigi PetrucciRenato is a very effeminate gay man who is nicknamed "Marlene" in honor of Marlene Dietrich. Because of a promise he made to his sick grandmother, he must try the opposite sex at least once. He thinks he has a chance with Ginevra, the lesbian leader of the rock band "The Fucking Sisters". She has just found out that her girlfriend cheated on her with a man, so she decides to find out how it feels to have sex with a man.
- DirectorGiorgio TrevesStarsStefania RoccaChiara MutiAthina CenciA Venetian countess, pregnant with illegitimate child, befriends her also pregnant servant girl and they almost become more than friends, but her family, infuriated over her scandalous pregnancy, has a plan for her and the baby.
- DirectorMonica StambriniStarsMaya SansaRegina OrioliMariella ValentiniMechanic Stella owns a gas station with introvert Lenni. When Stella accidentally kills Lenni's abusive mother, they try to dump the body. They run into trouble, thugs and cops but stick together as they fall in love with each other.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsAlice TeghilSergio CastellittoMargherita BuyCaterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniSabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. But nightmares start disturbing her, at almost the same time she discovers that she's pregnant. Little by little she remembers her childhood in a severe middle-class family, but a big secret is still hidden in her heart. Determined to bring clarity and serenity to her life, she considers contacting her brother, a University teacher in the U.S.A., to try to understand what happened in their past. What is the secret? Will Sabina finally manage to free herself from the "beast inside her heart"?
- DirectorRenato De MariaStarsIsabella FerrariPierfrancesco FavinoDonatella FinocchiaroMarried for 20 years since the age of 15, Nina's husband suddenly decides to leave her.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsJacqueline BissetHannah Taylor GordonNatalia Tena"Laughing Water - Mine Ha-Ha" is based on "Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls" by German author Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening, Lulu, Pandora's Vase). Thuringia, Germany, in the early 20th century. A group of young girls are brought up in a college withinh dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie. Will the inspector from the nearby city discover the real purpose of the college? Will Hidalla be successful in her revolt against the destiny assigned to her by the Headmistress?
- DirectorMarco Simon PuccioniStarsMaria de MedeirosAntonia LiskovaMounir OuadiThe story's protagonists are three people: Anna, a wealthy middle-class 35-year old woman who owns, together with her mother and her brother, a factory in the northeast of Italy; she has a love affair with 25-year-old Mara, who works in the factory; then there's Anis, a young man from Maghreb who suddenly storms into their lives.
- DirectorLodovico GaspariniStarsLino BanfiRosanna BanfiMapi Galán
- DirectorDonatella MaiorcaStarsValeria SolarinoIsabella RagoneseEnnio FantastichiniNothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend and great love, Sara in a 19th century Italian village.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTilda SwintonFlavio ParentiEdoardo GabbrielliniEmma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
- DirectorStefano PasettoStarsSandra CeccarelliFrancesca InaudiCésar BordónTwo women, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity to meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind they find that escape carries with it a different set of responsibilities.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsGiuseppe BattistonAnna FogliettaMarco GialliniSeven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.