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- Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
- An amnesiac man and his estranged wife restart their romance, only to find themselves hounded by unscrupulous figures from his past life.
- Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.
- An Italian policeman goes undercover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring, and butts heads with a hot-tempered Interpol agent assigned to the same task.
- This is a buddy film with a small-time thug (Victor Lobianco) meeting a high-profile gangster (Lee Van Cleef) while in prison. The pair team up to attempt a prison breakout.
- The band of musketeers; D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis and Athos, portrayed in a purely self-ironic and disenchanted key, in a series of adventures in order to save King Louis XIV.
- Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the unknown and other-worldly, equally wonderful and terrifying. Visit the GALAXY OF HORRORS, if you dare! Curated from Rue Morgue & Unstable Ground's Little Terrors Festival.
- Harald and Rolf lure young women with newspaper adds promising a lucrative future as dancers. Once the girls get hooked they are drugged to submission.
- Genoa 2001: As the G8 Summit drew to a close and the press and politicians departed, 300 riot police stormed the Diaz School looking for members of the infamous Black Block.
- The story of Luigi "Gigi" Meroni, Torino Football Club winger and representative of Italy who died on October 15, 1967 at the age of 24, hit by a car while crossing a street in Torino.
- Margherita, a regular girl just about to turn thirty, has got a life and a normal job, a boyfriend whom she loves and a she did not get any strange ideas. Her existence is disrupted by the death of her beloved grandmother who had raised her. The old woman was hiding a secret that had torn her soul for years: discovering what happened to her mother, a young actress in twenties, disappeared during the shooting of a film directed by a madman named Agenore Venturi. After the grandmother's funeral, Margherita begins to have terrifying visions and fears to going crazy. Even her boyfriend begins to doubt her sanity. The visions are increasingly disturbing and Margherita decides to seek help from a priest, her confidant. The man reveals to her something terrible about Venturi's past. After overcoming many misfortunes, Margherita succeeded in finding copy of the film that was supposed to be lost. The vision of those images reveals a truth that had to remain buried in the oblivion of time.
- A US Secret Service agent must go to Hong Kong because of the disappearance of some important documents her former partner carried. These documents, if they fell into enemy hands, could be very dangerous and cause many more deaths.
- Christian is a dreamer who cannot find his place in this world; for the past 10 years he's been living in London, a city of a million opportunities, and training to become a professional in martial arts. At 35 years old, nothing he aspired to has become a reality. When he finds himself unemployed, his girlfriend (tired of his endless excuses) kicks him to the curb. Now he will be forced back to his birthplace, Genoa, where he will have to rediscover himself, reinvent himself, and above all else adapt himself to a new reality of friends and family, a reality far different from that which he imagined.
- What are the NO TAV activists after? The struggle, the trials, the jail, all the individual choices are there as a standing chance to give dignity to their life.
- "80 voglia di te" (I want you so much) is the story of a psychologist in a marital crisis who, except for his work and phobias of various patients, is dedicated to his family, two sons (struggling with first loves and school problems) and his father, grandpa Frederick. One day a new patient comes in to his office. Little does he know that this new patient is actually his wife's lover.
- Ten classmates have disappeared on the evening of 3rd March 2011. The boys were in the family home of one of them, Fabio, for a party. But the next morning, none of them was still there. Gone, vanished into thin air. A few months later their parents receive an anonymous DVD, which contains the shooting of what happened the night of the party. They are not just shootings, but something similar to a real movie about that night. Edited, set to music, post-produced. But who shot that video? And why? The truth seems not to be hidden in the content of that video only. LA FESTA is THE FIRST MOVIE 2.0 A film event conceived and designed to be previewed in web distribution and free of charge, as well as to be shared on social media.
- ... It all started with a sudden feeling that something has permanently changed around us and in our life in the past 15 or 20 years. We have never noticed how the changes were taking place within our presence. As if we never have existed and there have never been all those years. The time of exposure is the life span of an object in frame. In this regard, any photo is not just two-dimensional graphic composition - it always has the third, temporal dimension, the temporal depth. A photo is a time carrier, a time vessel. It means - a vessel of memory... But whose memory?.. Of the Face or the Thing or the Landscape which are still on the photo?.. Of the Photographer?.. Having chosen photos as material of the film and memory as the theme, we inevitably find ourselves in a labyrinth of our own and the others' memories, of our own and the others' time being. And seeking for the escape we are becoming a part of this labyrinth and the material of the own film. This is a film about relationships that have developed between the Author and the Raw Material at the heart of his Creative Work to a point when the Material itself becomes the main character and the Author is compelled to become a part of the Material to keep a possibility of interacting with It on an equal footing.
- The Italian comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, who is the founder of the country's Five Star Movement, reveals interesting truths about his country's government and his dual career so far.
- The Crossing takes us along on one of the most dangerous journeys of our time with a group of Syrians fleeing war and persecution, crossing a sea, two continents and five countries, searching for a home to rekindle the greatest thing they have lost - Hope. They make it to Europe, only to find out that the hardest part of their journey still lies ahead.
- Huge plains of waste cover every corner of the Planet. Toxic gases make the air unbreathable. Acid rain poisons the water. Global warming make the surface uninhabitable and hostile. The Earth is dead. And the process is not reversible. But Mankind, thanks to its intelligence, gave life to its greatest invention, and is now free again to choose a "perfect" life inside the infinite world of Pathos.
- Every choice has consequences. So: are you sure that you want to watch this tape?
- The life and career of one of Italian greatest directors Giuliano Montaldo told by himself. A Filmaker and a gentleman who reflected in his movies his personal disdain for intolerance and violence.
- A three voices monologue weaves the story of the first Italian's armed revolutionary group of the seventies.
- REX, the most famous and legendary liner of the Italian merchant navy. A symbol of Italy in the fascist era, Blue Riband winner for the fastest Atlantic crossing, Rex revolutionized the way to travel by sea, opening the way to the modern concept of cruising. We tell its story by direct testimonies, experts' and enthusiasts' contributions, to reconstruct the history and the legend regard the short life of the ship, from the first trip in 1932 to the sinking in 1944, after an allied bombing, until the echoes of its myth, that still emerge in Italian industry and society.
- Maria is a little girl. She lives with her elder sister Martina and her father Demostene in an old and small caravan provided by Achille, a traficker, friend of Demostene. They have recently lost their house, Demostene has lost his job as professor at university and Elena, mother of the girls and Demostene's wife, has just left them. The caravan is messy and cosy and the three love themselves deeply. Unbelievably is Maria, at her young age, the only member of the family taking care of savings and expenses. Mr Bianchetti, an ex colleague of Demostene in troubles with his wife because she doesn't want to be touched by him, is in visit at the caravan looking for an advice from Demostene. The answer of Demostene is wise but distorted by Mr Bianchetti who, later, comes back, very happy, transvestite in his wife clothes, to please Demostene for his advice. Maria realises that the wisdom of her father can be used to make money. Her father is a Guru.
- A traveler is dicovering italian atmospheare, but something happens.
- A documentary about four international artists who individually survived the Rwandan Genocide. The film interweaves personal memories of these artists with a historical interview - the first appearance on film of His Majesty Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who has been in exile in the USA since 1959.
- Italeñas combines the stories of Melina and Domenica. Melina is a 19 years old girl born in Italy, to whom citizenship was denied because she spent less than a year in Ecuador (her parents' country of origin) when she was four. Melina and her father Omero contacted Domenica, a Peruvian journalist who has been living in Italy for the last 22 years and who deals with the issues of immigration. In a radio show, Domenica tells Melina's story and the iniquity of the Italian legislation on citizenship. A parallel injustice is the one affecting Domenica as well, being a journalist in Italy for several years, she cannot be the editor of a newspaper because of her foreign nationality.
- The spectator is taken for a visit to Algiers. A splendid view is shown of the Place du Government, the principal square of the city. We next visit the picturesque mosque for women. Passing on down the street we view the meeting of Young America and Young Algiers. Our next stop is at the historic harbor of Genoa, Italy. Going ashore, we visit the most beautiful cemetery in the world, the Campo Canto. As we walk through one of the galleries of this celebrated burial ground, we are impressed by the wonderful carvings in stone that meet us on every hand. Our next visit is to a little side street where we find the original home of Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, and read an inscription on the stone beneath his room window. The next stop along the Mediterranean is the beautiful Bay of Naples. Skirting the harbor is the magnificent Santa Lucia Boulevard and in the background to the right we have a splendid view of the famous volcano, Mount Vesuvius.
- What does it happen when media invades your emotional life?
- Leonardo and Alice are two successful Memory Agents: they log into people's memories to change them and make their last moments peaceful. This time a difficult case is going to question their friendship.
- The americanist Fernanda Pivano and her struggle in Italy for "The Time Theatre" inspired by Allen Ginsberg, the Beats and the Hippies. By the author of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991). In 2020 Istituto Luce Cinecittà produces a new version.
- A Mediterranean island is rocked by a lack of fish and a series of suspicious deaths, which coincides with the arrival of a beautiful and mysterious stranger.