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- The documentary relates the decisive moments, the turning points and the rollercoaster ride of a brilliant, eventful international career and the extraordinary life of a great Italian artist. From his origins as an illegitimate child with no name to the attainment of great international fame as a film director, art director, painter and stager of theatrical and operatic productions. Through original and archive interviews with some of the most acclaimed stars who have known, admired and loved him and with his closest relatives, friends and collaborators, this gripping account paints a picture of the person and the artist-and not just "the master"-Franco Zeffirelli in all his many and even conflicting facets.
- Carlo Lizzani and his family and associates reflect on his films.
- Pius XIII and John Paul III are forced to confront one another, as terrorists take a priest and six students hostage in Ventotene.
- Having uncovered John Paul III's secrets, Voiello begins his plan to regain power. Meanwhile, Lenny Belardo secretly returns to the Vatican.
- Two Popes. Only one Vatican. A holy war to come.
- While the coveted ticket holders and ship's principals prepare for Titanic's maiden voyage, a little girl named Sarah boards the ill-fated beauty with her mother, in search of a better life.
- Mark abandons London and stays where his heart is - with the ship - and learns the steel is inherently weak. Sofia nurses her injured father, Emily gets six months and Conor is shot during a raid.
- Mark learns his daughter's name, only to follow a trail of hope and disappointment. A calamitous decision means too few lifeboats onboard, and illness forces Pirrie to forsake his place on the ship.
- 201256mTV-147.8 (67)TV EpisodeMark's situation seems to improve when J.P. Morgan arrives in town to witness the progress of the RMS Titanic. When Sofia attempts to make their relationship public and Mark declines, she decides to study abroad.
- His faith in Pirrie once again damaged, Mark faces a new crisis - abandonment. Under pressure from her father, Sofia is forced to choose either Mark or Andrea. In a breathtaking ceremony, the Titanic is launched.
- Voiello, Guiterrez, Assente, Aguirre and Sofia make a trip to the UK to appeal to the alluring but fragile Sir John Brannox.
- As violence escalates amongst malcontent workers, Pirrie begins negotiating with union leaders. Mark blows the whistle on Titanic's steel, quits his love affair with Kitty to pursue Sofia and takes an unexpected hit from Bernard Doyle.
- After Doyle exposes Mark's past, Mark sets out on a secret quest. When a collision sends the RMS Olympic back to the shipyard, Mark must study the implications of the wreck from the view of the Titanic's metallurgy.
- John Paul III travels to Venice to visit Pius XIII. Meanwhile, a tragedy in Lourdes calls for the presence of the new Pope.
- John Paul III meets Sharon Stone, who gives him new ideas. Meanwhile, the connection between the Pope and Sofia deepens.
- Priest Leopold Essence tips off Sofia Dubois to her husband's dark secrets which leads her to a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Pope John Paul III speaks with Cardinal Spalletta about a financial scandal that could crush the Vatican.
- Mark's discovery puts him in conflict with Chief Designer Thomas Andrews, as social tensions rise in the city and shipyard. Sofia rejects her father's apprentice, Andrea Valle, while Mark encounters his own father in the cemetery.
- The evolution of a family from the last days of the Frankist dictatorship to the early 1980s.
- The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A documentary on one of Italy's greatest actors, who made a name for himself on stage and screen and even had a career in Hollywood.,the film features clips from his work and interviews with family members.
- One of the most prolific and eclectic filmmakers in Italian cinema: in the course of his forty-year career, Sergio Corbucci made over seventy films with forays into every possible genre, from "sword-and-sandals" to horror, from comedy to detective stories, from musicals to westerns. Borrowing from the director's unpublished autobiography, the documentary uses repertory materials from the Istituto Luce and private amateur photographs and videos, relying on the accounts of friends and collaborators and in particular of his wife Nori.
- While Mark's work brings him closer to Sofia, her father encourages Andrea to fight for her love. The army disrupts a march, and soldiers kill an unarmed Walter Hill. Mark rescues Sofia from the chaos.
- Whilst Mark and Sofia frolic by the sea, Henry Carlton learns of Mark's true identity and love affair with daughter Kitty. Upon Mark's return, Henry has Mark summoned by the Old Chairman to pay the price.
- Dirty politics surround the election, and Emily's the scapegoat. Even safety issues turn political when Ismay, Chairman of White Star Lines, crushes Mark's solution. Conor crosses the line, and Mark chooses Belfast over leaving with Sofia.
- As Sir John leaves for the Vatican, everything appears to be going to plan. But the secretary of state could never have predicted Cardinal Spalletta's next move.
- The epic struggle between the State and the Mafia from a new point of view: that of the Catturandi of Palermo, the elite police team responsible for the arrest of major fugitives.
- Into the Hartland & Wolff shipyard of Belfast - a city split along class and religious lines - steps metallurgist Dr. Mark Muir, to work on the biggest ship the world has ever seen: RMS Titanic.
- The construction of the R.M.S. Titanic at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast against the background of union riots, political and religious conflicts, and a romance between a young ambitious engineer and an Italian immigrant.
- Former high-school friends meet for a party after 15 years, but discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.
- Returning from abroad to Sicily, a former diplomat informs the police about a strange discovery he has just made. The next day, police inspector Lepri comes to the man's place and finds him dead. Has he committed suicide? While conducting his investigation, Lepri happens to suspect his own commissioner - Meanwhile, a train comes to a stop somewhere in the countryside because of a malfunctioning signal. A motorist decides to alert the station master but he too is found dead, as well as another railway agent. For the police, the driver cannot but be linked to those mysterious deaths.
- The film follows the lives of three policemen of the escort of Judge Falcone (Vito Schifani, Antonio Montinaro and Rocco Dicillo) and their families, to the Capaci massacre with their dramatic end with Falcone and his wife.
- Presents a rare selection of innovative stories in literature from gothic to science fiction.
- An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to his childhood and the time he believed his mother had a relationship with the teacher.
- A psychiatrist tries to make his dream come true by organizing the first worldwide football cup for patients who suffer from mental illness.
- An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
- 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.
- A brilliant recent graduate struggles to find work. After falling into a babysitting job, she is introduced by the child's mother to the world of the international call center, its employees, and the fast pace that drives them.
- Rosario, a roman high school teacher, has been left by his wife Elena who is now living with her sister Eugenia. He's very depressed and he's often visited by a very earthly Madonna. He wants his wife back but in the meantime he has to put up with his colleague Amalia and her friend Salvatore, a petty criminal recently out of jail, who falls in love with him. Rosario is thinking of becoming a criminal too. Elena is then kicked out by Eugenia, because a suitor of hers, Bussotti, has fallen in love with Elena. Rosario hopes for a reconciliation but his flat gradually becomes an open house as Salvatore and Bussotti spend most of their time there. One day a disagreement between Rosario and his headmaster ends up in a homicide. After a torrid night of love spent with Elena, Rosario leaves with Salvatore on a little airplane.
- Two-part miniseries Enrico Mattei - The man who looked to the future, the fiction directed by Giorgio Capitani, which tells the story of Enrico Mattei, one of the most important entrepreneurs of postwar Italy, that instead of dismantling the Agip, as by assignment, the reorganized founding ENI and pushed Italy to modernize.
- 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
- At the height of World War II, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, finds herself in a troubled marriage, facing the turmoil of a country headed toward tragedy
- The life of a happily married couple is turned upside down when the wife unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man.
- The difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just-ended WWII.
- Almost America's story begins in 1951. When the Po River in northern Italy floods her village, Antonia Di Vito (Ferilli) takes her children and sister Paola to Canada, where her husband Vincenzo has been working to establish a new home for the family. Upon their arrival in Alberta, Antonia is devastated to learn that Vincenzo has a new Canadian wife and child. Unable to return to Italy, she decides to stay in Edmonton. But life in the new country is difficult. Antonia finds that she can't practise as a midwife; Paola discovers that she became pregnant before leaving Italy; and Antonia's son, deprived of a strong father figure and unable to speak English, runs afoul of the law. Despite all the obstacles the family faces, Antonia remains determined to build a better life.
- Childless city folks, Francesca and Pierpaulo, buy a farmhouse near Sienna and settle in for the country life. He writes thrillers, she seems unfulfilled. When she learns that neighbors haven't seen their son, a doctor in Africa, for several years, she offers to care for their aged parents. Paulo is not pleased, but the old couple moves in with them, and a series of skirmishes break out between Paulo and the old man. Soon Francesca and Paulo as sniping at each other as well, then word comes that their neighbors have been kidnaped by rebels in the African bush. What to do with the aged couple and what to do with each other become the big questions for Francesca and Paulo.
- Young terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek.
- Antonio Hutter (Haber's alter ego) is on a stage and recalls his life dominated by his only great wish:to be an actor. So he tells about his childhood in Israel, his youth in Verona, his first roles in Franco Rossi's Eneide Taviani's Sotto il segno dello scorpione, his encounter with Orson Welles (never happened in reality), a role in Bertolucci's Il Conformista, later cut in the editing room his love story with Giuliana DeSio and a phone call (a fake one) for a role in Scorsese's Raging Bull. Now Antonio is on the brink of suicide:he's alone on the stage, there is no audience....but suddenly he gets a phone call from Hollywood.
- Based on Primo Levi's autobiographical "The Reawakening".
- Laura and Renato have been married for 30 years and have 3 children. Their life is turned upside down when Renato dies under suspicious circumstances in Tenerife, Spain.
- 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.
- An Italian football sports agent looking for young talents finds an Uruguay child prodigy and helps him starting a career into Italian football to fulfill a lifelong dream of success and fame.
- Mancini has to place a bomb inside a large bank to destroy some important documents inconvenient for a shady client.
- After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.
- During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to be hospitalized urgently.
- To Salvatore, a Calabrian emigrated to the North, came news of the death of his son Carlo, who was assassinated in turkish district of Berlin. The man can not make sense of the fact and takes a parallel investigation to that of the Commissioner Claudia Dahl, convincing herself that Charles is finished in a little ride clean. Salvatore part so for Berlin to shed light on the last days of life of the child.
- When the marriage between AMOS and MARY MAGDALENE turns out to be childless, he casts her out and gets a divorce. Mary has to leave Magdala. She befriends SILVANO, a Roman prefect, who promises her a new life at his side. A few days after her departure Mary meets the prophet JOHN THE BAPTIST, whom Silvano suspects of being a revolutionary. The prefect tells her to cultivate John more intensively. In this way Mary becomes acquainted with the teaching of the coming Messiah, and it begins to interest her. To protect John from the Romans she pretends to Silvano that he is harmless # but when the prefect finds out that how dangerous John is in the eyes of the tetrarch HEROD ANTIPAS, he feels he was wronged and purposely tricked by Mary. He casts her out as well. After a suicide attempt, Mary lowers herself to prostitution. HEROIDAS, the wife of Herod Antipas, invites Mary to come to her because of her knowledge of the healing arts. In this way she gets to know SALOME, who later asks for the Baptist's head. Mary is also drawn into the war for Galilee, in the course of which her home town of Magdala goes up in flames. She tries in vain to save the life of SAMUEL, the son of her friend JOANNA. He dies in her arms. She then takes him to JESUS # who brings him back to life. Mary recognizes Jesus as the Messiah, and becomes one of his disciples.
- The expectations, the desires and the failures of three characters involved in a love triangle, set in Italy's early 90s.
- Various battles including that of Lepanto.
- A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that of his chief. It is Fossati enlisted in the same Secret Service. Judge Francesca Savona who has to investigate the case and is already investigating the Secret Service slush funds is not convinced by Ravida. She asks for the help of detective Carlo Tommasi who has the reputation of being an honest policeman and is able to get it from the Minister. In the meantime Fossati fled, warned by a call. The inquiry begins but the atmosphere is corrupt and it is difficult to tell friend from foe.
- A look at Jesus Christ's life, from his childhood to the meeting with the Apostles, focusing on his compassionate human side.
- A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and realizing that he's infatuated with the sci-fi film's starlet.
- Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
- Italy 1935: Vittorio works in a matrimonial agency, and although the agency is closed for summer vacations, he tries to find an Italian wife for an American man. At last he finds a suitable girl, but a surprise is awaiting for him.
- It's everyone's dream to travel through the time and...what's happened! Three friends are going to meet to watch (or to re-live) on TV the important football match Italia-Germania, played in 1970's World Cup. But the football game is a pretext to recall twenty years before...
- A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain stranded on the island and the idyll between them seems to be over.
- Mail author for translation. Maria nemcsak menyasszony koraban volt gyonyoru, most is az. Ferje vendegmunkaskent dolgozik Nemetorszagban, talan mar egy masik csaladot is alapitott, mert haza nem latogat, Mariat es kamaszfiat csak igeretekkel hitegeti. A kisvaros orvosa, Sergio megszereti Mariat, aki eloszor visszautasitja kozeledeset.
- The life of Lucille Teasdale, who devoted her life to being a surgeon in Uganda from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- A widow finds choosing a new husband might not be her choice at all, as the actions of her various prospects confine her freedom.
- Rafael 'Raf' Sorvino is a young and talented motorbike racer trying to get on in a highly competitive sport and make his friends and Italian father proud.
- Supernatural thriller in which a detective investigating the strange disappearance of a businessman uncovers evidence that the living aren't alone. And the terrible hidden secrets of those who also vanished before. Suspense with unpredictable end.
- A professor saves the life of an injured hit man who, in return, promises to find and kill an enemy of his. Although the professor says not to have any enemy the killer goes for his mission and turns the professor's square life into chaos.
- The story of trade unionist Guido Rossa, killed in 1979 by Riccardo Dura, a member of the Red Brigades.
- Little Lucilla suffers from asthma and it is immediately evident that it is a psychosomatic affection. Her mother Susi, a dance teacher, is always in a hurry.