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- The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
- Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
- A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty.
- The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
- While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
- Immersive and innovative exploration of planet Earth through eyes of two human beings.
- A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
- A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
- Annabella marries Soranzo, when she is pregnant by her brother Giovanni. Destiny, and jealousies will expose her past, and Soranzo broods revenge. But he is not alone in that - and death will unite all.
- Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.
- Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half. Cesare and Lucrezia are furious with her demands, since they're incapable of meeting them. Marcello, on the other hand, marries a dangerous killer called Marina. Marina gets pregnant right away but unfortunately has a miscarriage. She discovers that there's a clinic in Germany that specializes in embryo transplants for sterile women. She convinces her twin sister Angela to take her place while she flies to Germany to have the operation. But Cesare finds out about her plan and causes an explosion on the airplane Marina is travelling on. So Angela goes to Germany to have the transplant that Marina was scheduled for.
- Four female convicts escape from prison and take a bus full of young female athletes hostage, and take refuge in a judge's house. Soon enough, the police surrounds the place, but the escapees are not giving up without a fight.
- Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner's father.
- A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
- A young female biochemist travels to a castle seeking employment as a researcher by a wealthy baron, only to be sucked into a web of violence and intrigue.
- Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the death of his mother. Years later, he is forced to relive his traumatic past and compassionate doctor Elisa could help him open up and confront his childhood wounds.
- A frustrated musician makes a career out of his wife's beautiful body.
- It narrates the cases that have to face the scientific police team captained by Riccardo Venturi.
- Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.
- A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
- An Italian businessman decides whether to pay a ransom for his abducted son or not.
- As strikes upset Italy, the Califfa's husband is killed and she becomes a passionate militant of the strikers. She opposes the factory manager Doverdo who used to be himself a worker.
- The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
- Virna Lisi is at her peak using her womanly wiles to seduce Terry-Thomas (in multiple roles) to aid her debt-ridden grandmother, Dame Margaret Rutherford.
- 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.
- A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.
- Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
- The knight Orlando falls for the fickle princess Angelica. She spurns him. He goes mad, pursues her, visits the moon to recaptures his lost wits, and loses her to a sexy servant boy.
- In 2017 Anna continues to be persecuted by her look-a-like dead two hundred years before. In 1818 investigations into the death of Luigi Bacchi and the infanticide Emma Rigoni are assigned to a new detective.
- Four different stories about italian football team's supporter.
- A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
- Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.
- Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
- Federico is married to Giovanna, a rich and attractive woman who has guaranteed him an excellent social position. His father Giuseppe, on the other hand, was an anti-fascist and works as a craftsman.
- The director interviews five people with different backgrounds about love and sex.
- A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
- Margot is back in Parma, her hometown. She's coming back to seek revenge. Indeed, she was raped by several notables of the city when she was younger.
- Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.
- The true story of seven Italian brothers, farmers and Catholic, who became Communist and fought for justice and freedom against Fascism. Shot in December 1943 in Reggio Emilia, they are the first and most famous heroes in the Italian "Resistenza" (resistance against German Fascism).
- Celebrity chef, Keith Floyd, once again travels across a country exploring its food and indeed, drink.
- "The Pandas Syndrome" is the first narrative film dedicated to PANS/ PANDAS, an autoimmune pediatric disease characterized by the sudden onset of neuro-psychiatric issues. It aims to raise awareness among the general public of the Syndrome and 'make noise' so that the institutions, health professionals, parents and the teachers are made aware of the illness.
- With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Verdi Festival in Parma, demonstrating what magic those two can do together with an all new approach to Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, staged and edited by himself and his wife, Saskia Boddeke. The opera's libretto is based on Friedrich Schiller's 'The Maid of Orleans'. It tells the story of the French national hero Jeanne d'Arc, who defends her country against the English troops during the Hundred Years' War. Constantly torn between her humble roots, her love for King Charles VII and her heavenly task to fight for France, she gains eternal glory by giving her life in the final, victorious battle against England.
- Anna, modern woman living in 2017, is pulled deep into a world of the occult, one in which the past and present collide and Anna discovers a supernatural link between herself and a seemingly identical girl who died in 1817.
- The last day of a young girl in her hometown before leaving to follow her freedom suddenly becomes a stream of consciousness made of images in which no love story or family ties could stop her from discovering what the world could offer.