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- From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
- Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York.
- 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.
- American sailor Dean Barry, 23 years old, lands in Naples in 1944. Dean develops feelings for native Lucia, with whom he has a son. Dean is compelled to leave them but finally returns to see his family again, in an changed city.
- Gloria Guida stars in this Italian sex-comedy in which she plays a private nurse who is involved in a family struggle for the estate of the ailing old man she cares for.
- A mysterious stranger travels to a remote village where, 15 years earlier, his wife and daughter were kidnapped.
- Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire for the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only 1 student gets the opportunity.
- Taranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs are competing for territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
- A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family, who is forced to steal when he loses the milk money. These two come together in the same hiding place.
- A teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and his students' family problems.
- Massimo has a young mistress and, for seeing her even when the family moves to their beach house, she will come at the house dressed as a nun and with the purpose of tutoring Massimo's daughter, who failed at school.
- 1860, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. While Garibaldi's troops are invading this lawless territory, four female bandits nicknamed the "Drudes" are looking for their own personal revenge.
- A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
- In the lead of the family comedy, we are watching award-winning actor Diego Abatantuono. Rich businessman Vincenzo realizes that he is not very interested in his children. But they are children who can not afford themselves economically. Vincenzo wants to prevent this, aims to give his children a chance to make their lives by making bankrupt number.
- In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. The children know who the suspect is but knowing that the adults will never believe them, they decide to keep quiet. When one of their friends sister disappear, they know they have to take the matter into their own hands.
- A young man struggles to escape from the ties of his Mafia family upbringing.
- A successful novelist rents a house to write his new book only to discover that the house has a violent history, as it belonged to a powerful warlock and his sensual witches. Memories from the house will start haunting his nightmares.
- Non professional actors, filmed in a semi documentary style, show the lives of sailors and their officers ,some of whom are transferred to a hospital ship ,during WWII in Italy .
- A study of the friendship between two contemporary Italian women. One is a pharmacist from the affluent North East, while the other is an impoverished shop assistant living in the South East.
- During a robbery, Tonino double crosses his two accomplices and runs off with the loot. While trying to hide he is helped by an eccentric man with a feather behind his ear, who looks at the world from another perspective.
- A bungling bank robber, an uncooperative hostage with a secret, a gay policeman and a situation which rapidly goes from bad to worse are the ingredients to this very funny and unpredictable caper flick. Sad sack Domenico is an unemployed man who decides to rob a Turin bank and then to travel north to Switzerland with his loot. But things don't work out that way: For the heist is messy and he ends up with the tall, patrician Tommaso as his hostage. Tommaso, a businessman who is on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly takes over and convinces convincing Domenico to, instead, head south, get help from a friend of Tommaso and sail off to Egypt. But the plan soon unravels, as Domenico discovers that the friend, Orfeo, is actually Tommaso's lover and a policeman to boot. The odd couple is now the odd triangle and when Tommaso's grown-up daughter decides to come along as well, the likelihood of poor Domenico getting out of the country becomes more and more complicated.
- Tonio is a 12 year old boy who one day gets run over by a car. Before he loses his senses, Tonio sees something which will change his life. When he wakes from the coma in the hospital, he casually comes into contact with a man who is dying.
- The weirdo and sadomasochist Condom is sent to a little village in southern Italy to kill a professional killer.
- It's the story of Tano's redemption. He is the right-hand man of Don Carmelo, a powerful Padrino of the United Sacred Crown, the criminal organization of Puglia, a South Italy region. Tano falls in love with Vittoria, a charming woman, and wants to change his life for her: but it is not permitted to quit the United Sacred Crown.
- Francesco's life always flows the same, he is 26 years old, lives in Taranto, does not have a steady job and always attends the same friends. During his 27th birthday he makes an incredible discovery: the candle of his cake, only if broken, is able to fulfill any of his wishes once a year.
- Based on the novel Jolanda, the daughter of the Black Corsar by Emilio Salgari.
- Davide, a southern Italian problematic boy, moves to Berlin to start his new life. There he has to make it on his own, facing troubles, city temptations and his trauma; but he will experience friendship.
- This is the version of I Capuleti e i Montecchi made for La Scala, where it was first staged on 26th December 1830, featuring two female voices in the roles of Romeo and Juliet. This opera is usually performed with a tenor as Romeo, but at La Scala Bellini found a different singing troupe which obliged him to cast not the en travesti warrior of Rossinian manner (like Tancredi, Arsace, Malcolm) but a wholly female Romeo, ardent and authoritative yet at the same time languid, sensual and soft. The choice of this Capuleti at the 2005 Martina Franca Festival was also dictated by the availability of Patrizia Ciofi. This great specialist of romantic belcanto had never been offered the role of Giulietta in Capuleti, a role which is absolutely ideal for her vocal talents.
- The Immortal tells in fact the journey of six people and a family to The Big Day. The motive and the meaning that it has for each one of the protagonists when they collectively attend an event like the concert at San Siro in Milan.
- A family in South Italy, occupation and family problems.
- A journey through Apulia sections of the new Democratic Party, the Managers, the old and the new people, new goals and guidelines.
- Una bambina smarrita cerca aiuto in una deserta strada di periferia. In soccorso della piccola accorre un uomo di mezza età, di cui non sono ben chiare le reali intenzioni.
- Summer 2012. Two Italian women directors on a journey want to tell through a film on the road the changes that have occurred in their region, their homeland, and the main issues of the films shot by one of them, Cecilia, about fifty years ago. The film goes through places and ages and the archival footage interacts with the images of the present. The journey becomes the chance to face with the questions that were the core of Cecilia's search: how to approach the industrialization that drags up Italy and its people from an obsolete dimension, meantime throwing it in a cruel and contradictory dimension. Answers will be found meeting the people, through personal perspectives on a public interest theme.
- The night of the 31 December, in the middle of the fireworks, a group of international ecologists blows up the biggest steelworks of Europe.
- Almost everyone of us stood once at the port watching the ships. You see cruise liners, bulk freighters, oil tankers and container vessels. They all stay short in the port before they sail again and disappear as a small dot on the horizon. But what happens thereafter? Ships are designed to spend more time on sea than in port. But how does life on a modern container vessel looks like, when your workplace become your home for several weeks? Within the documentary film "Steel Solitude" Gabriel Pielke joins the crew of one of the largest container vessels on a journey from Europe to China and back. During this 56 days at sea he experience the solitude of modern seafaring and the gradualness of traveling. This film takes you on a never ending journey between east and west and abducts you in a foreign world beyond the horizon.
- The head of Luigi Pirandello junior high school in Tarante, the hub of the European steel industry, has a motto "I am first my conscience, then the State".