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- James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
- Carol Danvers gets her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
- Sandokan is a Malaysian pirate who, along with his friend Yanez and their crew, attacks the British forces from his island of Mompracem. During his adventures, he falls in love with Lady Marianna Guillonk, an English-Italian aristocrat.
- Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone starts looking for the four freaks with a plan that could change the fate of the whole world.
- Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church.
- The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
- Three women who were born into the deadliest and wealthiest of the Italian mafia clans work with a courageous female prosecutor to bring it down from the inside.
- Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.
- A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
- Laura is a victim of blackmail by her boyfriend, who has threatened to release their intimate photos. Desperate, she decides to take her own life but is saved by a boy who is on vacation with his friends. The boy offers emotional support to Laura and helps her through the difficult time, but nothing is as it seems, and Laura will have to come to terms with this shocking truth.
- Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing people in public places about sex, marriage and gender roles.
- An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
- Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
- Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy after having spent some years in another country. He decides to run for mayor in his little city.
- A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
- In 1951 in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time as no route connects Africo with the other villages. The inhabitants get together to build it up.
- Tells the story of how a pious doctor in 19th Century Italy changes the way patients are treated in the city of Napoli.
- Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.
- Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
- Alex, a sound engineer, accidentally records mysterious voices: disturbing messages from the afterlife who warn him against an imminent and terrifying danger. Amanda, with whom he shares a terrible secret, re-emerges from his past. The appearance of the young woman triggers chilling paranormal phenomena that leave behind a trail of corpses. Is she the danger the voices of the dead speak about?
- Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.
- GLASSBOY Pino Gambassi is a child suffering from haemophilia and is animated by an unbridled desire for freedom and boundless courage: he decides to start his adventure in the world and to show everyone that he can live his life like a normal kid.
- Brother and sister argue for the same girl's love. Sea and vineyards on the background
- Regina, a 15-year-old girl who lost her mother years earlier, dreams of becoming a singer. Her father, Luigi, her only family at that point, firmly believes in his daughter's talent and supports her unceasingly. After all, Luigi had given up his own musical career to be near his daughter. Their relationship seems rock-solid, indissoluble, until one day an unexpected event changes their lives..
- Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
- Andrea Viscomi is a late career footballer, from Rome, captain of the local football team, U.S.Collidoro, in southern Italy. During the imminent period of the 1990s World Cup, he meets Marcello, a boy who dreams of becoming a footballer and lives with his mother of Arbëreshë origin, in the popular neighborhood called "Aranceto". Their lives are intertwined. The friendship with the footballer rekindles in the boy the desire for a father figure that he has never had and in the footballer a forgotten carefree time, which has been lost above all due to his involvement in match-fixing. The coming-of-age novel of Marcello crosses the descending parable of Andrea's career, in the sign of a friendship necessary for both.
- Father and son try to rebuild their relationship after they have a paragliding accident and end up being stuck in an opening.
- Italian magistrate Paolo Pizzi (Franco Nero) has devoted his life to justice. With an inflexible sense of honour and duty, he has stood up to the crime bosses, the corrupt judges and the politicians. One day, Paolo's public zeal leads to a private loss; his wife is killed and his son disappears. As he follows a potential Mafia connection to Australia, his search for his son turns into an obsessive pursuit but in an ominous landscape of political and police corruption, business fraud, media intrigue, drugs smuggling and illegal arms dealing, the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
- Four young girls (Claudia, Monica, Michèle and Marina) and two boys (Peter and Marco) during an excursion by motorboat are running out of gasoline.
- Cariati, a remote village in Calabria overlooking the Ionian Sea. Public health care has been reduced to a trickle by decades of budget cuts and privatisation. With the Deficit Recovery Plan, the last hospital in the area has also been closed: one of 18 hospitals cancelled overnight in the whole of Calabria. A handful of rebels of all ages decide to protest as no one has ever dared to do, occupying the hospital with the aim of obtaining its reopening. Meanwhile, some of the most important Italian and international intellectuals, doctors, experts and activists are revealing the true local and global responsibilities for the attack on public health, and support Cariati's struggle.
- Much has been written and broadcast since a commando of the ndrangheta shot down six men in Duisburg in August 2007. Shedding true light on the issue, Men of Honour is the first documentary film to put the Calabrian Mafia bosses themselves in front of the camera. They not only explain why the Duisburg murders took place (as part of a vendetta between two feuding clans) but also reveal that the mafia is doing business in the midst of Germany with large-scale operations. We powder your noses and build your roads says the German adjutant of the ndrangheta, as the Mafia is known in Calabria. He blows the whistle on construction projects and financial transactions that the Calabrian Mafia has used to wash drug money. Today we are respected in higher political circles around the globe, he explains, particularly here in Germany. Film director Francesco Sbano, himself Calabrian, conducted years of research and was ultimately successful in penetrating to the very centre of the Onorata Società, or the honourable society. The Mafia godfathers show us their rituals, their traditions and their code of honour. Never before has a film been so successful in reporting directly and authentically from within this clandestine world. Men of Honour takes us to the Aspromonte Mountains, to the origins of the ndrangheta a journey that throws our picture of Italy out of focus. Filmed in quiet, wintery 16mm images by cameraman Marcus Jaeger, the film recounts the history of the Italian South as it has never been told before. In Men of Honour, the voices of day labourers and farming families are heard. Musicians sing about the deeds of the ndrangheta. And the residents of San Luca di Aspromonte stubbornly defend their villages name, fending off its reputation as a hub of organised crime. The film leads us deep into the hinterlands of Palermo and Naples, areas ridden with poverty and hopelessness. It tells of a culture alive between pride and desperation; a culture that wants social progress but needs the Mafia. The command is sacred, says a masked latitante, a man of honour who, having committed a bloody deed, is forced to live in the solitude of the mountains for several years. As a child, I had nothing. The honourable society raised me; it is the mother of all Calabrians. Men of Honour also recounts how the mafia has been continually used and endorsed by the powerful: how the Allied forces hired the Mafia to prepare the landing of US troops during World War II. How politicians profited from vote buying carried out by the local Mafiosi. How Mafia millions were fed into the nations financial system and how the Mafiosi advanced to become construction magnates, while their homeland was left behind as a social no man's land. Italys unity is a great deception, says the elderly historian Nicola Zitara, relegating the schoolbook version to the realm of legend. Under no circumstances had the rich North always maintained the upkeep of the impoverished South. During the 1860s, Piedmont was practically bankrupt. In the War of 1861, the Piedmonts secured the deposits of the Bank of Naples and then brutally crushed the subsequent insurgencies of the so-called brigands of rural Southern Italy. The streets of Calabria are still named after the Piedmont generals who introduced martial law. And the presence of the briganti, the rural guerrillas of the 19th century, is still ubiquitous. They live on in the traditions of the Mafia present in the tattoos of the old pastry baker, for instance, who is proud to be a man of honour. Were like snakes poisonous, he says, and shows the filmmaker a snakehead tattoo on his biceps. Above it, a wind rose is emblazoned, symbolizing Omertà, the conspiracy of silence. As long as I live, I will never fall into the filth is inscribed on his other arm.
- 17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players for a new challange. Who can trust who?
- Two estranged brothers, traveling in a classically restored Morgan convertible, are obliged to deliver their father's ashes to his hometown in Calabria. Genziano (co-writer Marco Bonini) and Mirko (co-writer/director Edoardo Leo) haven't spoken for 18 years, ever since a mysterious accident involving their mother. After the incident, Genziano immigrates to England, where he is a successful businessman, while Mirko stays in Italy working in their father's auto shop. As the brothers travel across Italy, sometimes accompanied by the beautiful and mysterious hitchhiker Cate, they learn to communicate again and fight about various family secrets. Meanwhile, in Rome, Mirko's wife develops a tender relationship with the grandfather who came from London with Genziano. A touching and funny work about sibling relations, "Eighteen Years Later" showcases the collaborative teamwork of Leo and Bonini, the picturesque Calabrian countryside, and a diverse and bouncy soundtrack.
- On December 12th, 1969, a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held and interrogated for three days, longer than Italian law specified that people could be held without seeing a judge. Just before midnight on December 15, 1969, Pinelli was seen falling to his death from a fourth-floor window of the Milan police station. Although officially deemed a suicide, the reporter who watched the fall from the street maintained that he was pushed. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli were put under investigation in 1971 for murder, but charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
- An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
- After her father's death, Aida returns to her Arbëreshë village and grapples with complicated feelings about her origin.
- A road trip across the Calabrian region to discover traditions, legends, artistic masterpieces and natural landscapes linked by the red thread of spiciness. Along an ideal route that leads from the burning chili peppers to the pungent 'nduja, passing from the hints of the bergamot to the flavors of the typical sardella, Esmeralda Spadea, a journalist in search for inspiration, leads us in an on-the-road documentary drama that explores the spicy culture of Calabrian living: a manifesto of the most authentic Italian way of life in the world.
- Giacomo and Samuele are two young boys born and raised in a small province of southern Italy, in a closed-minded environment. The strong friendship that is born between the two does not take too long to be transformed into something more. Two young people guilty only of their love that they manage to keep alive their secret relationship, with the promise of running away and being able to scream to the world their strong sentiment. But one day something goes wrong. Because of a bad accident, happened on the fishing boat of Giacomo, the two become doubly guilty and find themselves, at any moment, to take a hard decision that will force them to escape from their land.
- Geneva, a man wakes up in a hotel room. He has a wound in the head and a gun under the pillow, but no recollection of his identity or past life. Soon he realizes he is in danger, chased by someone who wants to kill him. Yuki is a young illustrator of children's books who lives in Kyoto. Since the death of her Italian boyfriend, she has lost the power of speech, but has developed extrasensory abilities that allow her to see the dead and communicate with their spirits. After her boyfriend appears to her in a dream, she decides to go out to Italy and look for a legendary island where people can find the things they have lost. In Geneva, Yuki meets the man with no memory. She tells him that there is the ghost of a young Japanese woman constantly by his side. The man and Yuki establish a relationship of tenderness and care. The man finds out he was a former police chief who had resigned after the murder of his wife by some criminals acting out of retaliation. After disappearing without leaving a trace and committing murder in revenge, he is now not only in danger, but on the run from the police. The man decides to drive away with Yuko and start a journey that leads them to the legendary island. There they will eventually find what they have lost and rejoin, each in their own way, their loved ones. The project deals with the thriller genre combining a "ghost story", a "gangster story" and a "fantasy story" which should be set in Japan, Kyoto, and in Italy. White Flowers is an amazing fairy tale able to make meet Italian and Japanese cinema, an ideal movie on which to build a solid financing project and an innovative marketing strategy.
- Pietro is a 14-year-old dragged by his parents to a small town in Calabria for summer vacation, where he develops a crush on Luce. She is his opposite, a young environmental activist who loves the planet and hates tourists.
- De Reditu takes place in 415 AD- five years after the devestating sack of Rome by the Visigoths- and tells the true story of Claudio Rutilio Namaziano, the last great pagan poet of a declining Roman Empire. A nobleman frustrated by the dominance of Christianity (which he blames for Rome's troubles) and a failed love affair, Claudio embarks on a sea journey to his native Gaul in order to raise an army and bring glory back to the Empire.
- This documentary short film shows how 300 immigrants, who had debarked on the Ionic side of Italy, were welcomed by the local Calabrian communities of the so-called ghost towns or shrinking cities in the Locride.
- When a former Calabrian marathon runner is struck by the determination and vitality of a Muslim teenager, he decides to take her to the most important victory of all , the race of life.