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- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMassimiliano BenvenutoLeandro AmatoEmiliano RagnoSeveral actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.
- DirectorChandrashekhar VaidyaStarsChandrashekhar VaidyaHelenOm PrakashA woman first insults a blind singer, then gets him cured, falls in love with him but ends up rejecting him.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsLibero De RienzoValentina LodoviniMichele RiondinoThe story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMichele PlacidoDaniele PecciMicaela RamazzottiA TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsClaudio AmendolaMassimo DapportoIvo GarraniClaudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsFrancesco BenignoAlessandra Di SanzoRoberto MarianoYoung men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
- 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.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsGiampiero LisarelliRicky MemphisGiorgio TirabassiA pack of bored youths kidnaps two young German tourists with the help of an older criminal. They decide to rape them. Sylvia, the older of the two girls, decides to sacrifice herself to spare her friend Marion. Nevertheless, violence keeps increasing.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMichele PlacidoClaudio AmendolaFrancesco BenignoA teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsCorso SalaniAngela FinocchiaroAntonello FassariJune 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is ''structure failure'' of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns. A true story.