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- During Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, some loyalists hire a look-alike to swap places with the deposed Emperor. While the impostor lives in luxury on the island, the real Napoleon returns to Paris in order to retake the throne.
- An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
- Six love stories made of expectations, passion, contrasts, that intertwine with one another.
- Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this true story begins with the Spielrein's healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia ? where she became a psychoanalyst herself founding the famous White School ? and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers, Marie, a young French scholar, and Fraser, a historian from Glasgow, who follow Sabina's life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the original correspondence. And since any exploration of others' lives inevitably leads to delving into one's own self, the two stories then finally interweave and are swept away in the passionate journey.
- The story tells about a man Guido, that begins a relationship with a single mom, Anton, and starts having money trouble, decides to rob a store and gets sent to prison where he meets two inmates planning to escape. For some reason he ends up tagging along during the escape. The story then develops around the run and the search for Anton.
- An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- Memory Lane is the story of an elderly Italian film director commissioned by a French producer to make a film about the life of Proust. During the preliminary preparations, which take him back and forth between France and Italy, Proust's great description of involuntary memory becomes real for him as he starts to relive key moments from his own past. In a series of free associations (visual, tactile, acoustic) he experiences breaking with a group of partisans fighting the German occupation, falling repeatedly in love with the same woman whom he fails to recognize after a long separation, taking her to Switzerland for an abortion, and his relationship with his 20-year-old son who mirrors back to him his own youth.
- The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.
- Lombardy, 17th century, the nun Virginia de Leyva leaves prison after a decade of imprisonment. Her first desire is to find her daughter, born from a forbidden relationship, that she had to abandon.
- In southern Italy, Rollo, a nearly mute, large, muscular young man, is part of a crime gang. He wants to go on "an escort," to smuggle a ten-year-old Moroccan boy into Switzerland where adoptive parents supposedly await him. The third person on this road trip is Mauro, a middle-aged nurse brought into the deal by his boss, a hospital physician, to make a quick buck. They head for Cannobio on what should be a one-day trip, but complications soon arise. Car trouble, a Bulgarian prostitute and her daughter, the boy's constant desire to play soccer, and Rollo's flashbacks to a troubled and violent childhood combine to challenge them in a world without conscience.
- Set in the relatively near future. The house is entirely managed by a centralized informatics system: everything is connected to everything else, and everything can also be controlled through everything else. It is a perfect world. However, in a system which is so extensively interconnected, what would be the result of just one of these elements breaking down?
- Explores the career of the Italian actor Gian Maria Volonte who starred in four films by director Elio Petri.
- A college film student, obsessed with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, investigates a murder committed in the apartment building across from his and suspects that his seductive neighbor hired a girlfriend to commit the deed.
- The story is about two Italian contractors in AbuGhraib prison. Their task is to guard a very important prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison: Saddam Hussein.
- An American art student in Rome accidentally triggers the return of Mater Lachrymarum - the Third Mother - and must use her latent magical powers to end the witch's reign of terror.
- Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
- A psychologically damaged youth decides to kill his parents.
- The protagonist is a university law professor, an attractive, intelligent, ironic forty-year-old who has achieved a prominent position socially and professionally. Not surprisingly he is sought after by women. And to a degree he succumbs. But he comes across as a character closed up in himself, locked into his privileged situation, which he uses as a defensive screen between himself and the "vulgarity and absurdity of reality". Towards everyday reality he assumes an attitude of total, superior disdain. Our protagonist lives in an ivory tower he has constructed for himself, and it seems that nothing can break down his defenses. In order to preserve this obstinate individualism, he does not hesitate in repressing his feelings and sacrificing those of others. Thus, without any plausible reason, he breaks off the relationship he has with Silvia, a young woman who is desperately in love with him. But fate intervenes to break down the perfect system of rules he has constructed to protect himself. In the pocket of a young suicide victim - who turns out to be one of his best students - the police find a piece of paper with the his name and telephone on it. From this moment on, nothing will be the same as before. The story turns into a murder mystery, so it is appropriate to stop telling the story here. The point is that the real world, carefully kept at arm's length by our protagonist, accidentally infiltrates his life and then invades it completely, turning it upside down.
- Maurice is a young boy who can connect with the dead -his twin brother, Jacques, who was killed at birth. But Jacques does not want to return to the living: he wants his parents to join him in the afterlife.
- A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
- How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselves. Hotel Meina, named after the town of Meina at Lake Maggiore, run by the Benars, a family of Turkish Jews. The grown-ups' questions are toned down by the light-heartiness of the two youngsters, Noa and Julien who are in love and full of hope in their future. The uncertainty is broken by the arrival of an SS detachment conducted by Krassler. The sixteen Jews are kept in isolation in the hotel and the never ending wait begins full of uncertainties, despair, fear and hope. Noa and Julien's love is countered by the attraction that pushes the enigmatic Krassler, uncontrollable in his Nazi faith, towards Cora, a fascinating German who is passing through, and seemingly naive and superficial. Krassler, a man both weak and inhumane, tries to pursue her relentlessly ignoring that she is in Italy to secretly help a victim of political persecution to flee the country unharmed and to find refuge in Switzerland, where the woman lives with a double-dealing man who works for the German Embassy and is also in contact with the underground anti- Nazi movement. While Noa and Julien live their very last days of love, Krassler and Cora stage a very dangerous act. Cora, having successfully carried out her mission in Switzerland, decides to go back to The Meina Hotel to help the Jews, but her escape plan is thwarted by a telegram coming from Milan: Krassler has to immediately eliminate the prisoners. Cora is able to get Noa to escape while Julien will follow the same destiny as the other Jews imprisoned: to be shot and thrown in the lake. This is the first Italian Nazi massacre of Jews. Noa's scream of pain, while she is sailing towards the Swiss shore, as she comes across the bodies of her friends that are floating on the surface, alternates with Cora's outburst against Krassler. The woman has trapped him in a greenhouse and shouts the truth at him: Germany will become a better country rising from the ashes of Nazism.
- This is a journey into De Santis' cinema from the viewpoint of the author, a film historian, friend and co-worker of Giuseppe De Santis. The story is a journey, run through with an intimate air never before seen in the works of Lizzani. Using material from the archives and film sequences, it takes us through the testimony of artists, friends, critics, as well as the locations of De Santis' films, guiding us through different passages in his artistic, private and political life.
- Turin(Italy),1940.Jazz music is banned as 'esothic vehicle' and menace to Italic melody. When the Hitler Alliance gets tightened,what's coming from US is mocked by the Regime's 'culture'; restrictions limite possibilities of playing it in front of an audience.GIO CERVI,MOLAIEN and the band,the musicians in this Story who play against those rules,are object of a discrimination;they represent a sad scapegoat of what Intolerance can bring to.MASSIMO,a young boy who follows them,is not guilty the same;but an irrational thirst for revenge flows over them with no matter.They're put in an horrible jail for three years,and at the end they're brought to die because of a judicial mistake;but also because of a Repression,out of Ages or Hystorical content,which should invite everyone to think.
- The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
- A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
- The story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy.
- Biopic of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- During the night between 5th and 6th December 2007 a serious fire invests line 5 of the establishment ThyssenKrupp (Turin, Italy). The families, friends and colleagues of the seven victims recount the tragic circumstances of that night and their lives of survivors. The film gives voice to anger, questions unanswered about how he could have happened, the pain of victims' relatives and the accusations to the managers of the factory. The film begins with a prologue in black and white in which actors act the parts of the victims' relatives: they remember the moments before the tragedy.
- Three different stories in three different European countries, which are intertwined and almost echo each other. A young hostess afraid of flying, a painter working with a young talented Romani girl and a reporter who is in a state of trauma through experiences from war, keeping him from functioning normally and working.
- A wealthy community in the Northeast Italy deals with its immigration fears.
- Count Camillo Cavour was born in August 1810 in Turin to a wealthy aristocratic Piedmontese family. His most passionate interest was studying the problems of agriculture in Piedmont: he ran the family estate in Grinzane Castle.
- The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
- A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
- An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
- From the album of the same name by Claudio Baglioni the film tells the love story of two teenagers during the legendary seventies. A story so overwhelming as to compel the world to retreat, to step aside. Andrea and Giulia come from two different worlds, have different friends, and two different lives who call them strongly in opposite directions. Will they keep their love alive in spite of everything?
- A series of strange murders take place in an European school of cinema and nobody, except the professors, seems to understand what's happening.
- A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion.
- A documentary about the slow food movement.
- A suspected man, two cops, three friends, maybe.
- Vittorio Zemeli is a man of about 60. He lives in an apartment in a grey building in a grey city center in Europe, crossed by a river. At the center of his house he leads a solitary life, with TV on continuously for company. One evening, like many other evenings, Vittorio sees an actor on TV identical to himself, while eating. The TV Victor kills himself. The next day Vittorio is anxious while on the way to work. Three friends surprise him and drag him into a popular restaurant in town for a birthday dinner. But the journey on the way back home will be one he won't forget.