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A writer ends up in prison for a crazy and unexpected act, where she meets with some young inmates. Once out the writer and the other women maintain their friendship, an authentic bond that no one else will be able to understand.

After 20 years of marriage, Carlo lives with a young lover while Silvia stays in their home. Their arrangement shifts when Silvia begins seeing other men, including a young violent neo-fascist.

After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.

The biography of Neapolitan comic theater legend Eduardo Scarpetta.

With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.

When an elderly woman dies--apparently happy but in curious circumstances--her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent life. In doing so she starts to confront childhood memories that shaped the family history.

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.

The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.

A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.

A fisherman who lives in the Rione Terra of Pozzuoli, catches a polyp that at night is transformed into a sensuous woman. An odd black prince who claims to be the brother of the unfortunate woman tells the fisherman about the sad fate to which she has been condemned by a magic spell. But the polyp, which has taken lodging in a tub and at night visits Toritore's bed, in spite of it all will ultimately meet her fate in a frying-pan.

Long-running Australian film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review and rate the latest movie releases, discussing 4-5 films per episode and providing their expert opinions.

A journey through Italy's most beautiful and important UNESCO World Heritage sights.

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.

Naples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having become a stranger to his own party colleagues of the PCI and its employees to the University, he lives his life with disenchanted posting.

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

This particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding within the city.

A collective documentary on the protest movement against the G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy in 2001.

Valentina the creature of Guido Crepax, the elegant and sophisticated, erotic dream for men, a symbol for women of independence, charm, and seduction. An amazing biographical odyssey, between dreams and desires to discover the great artist.

The panorama of human affairs encounters the "man with a movie camera". But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?

A former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.

Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious persona - so uniquely captivating.

A journey to discover the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno, one of the most important actors of the Italian theater and cinema of the last thirty years. A tale lived through the voice of his daughter Joan and the testimonies of those who knew him. Anecdotes, photos, archive footage and original music by Pino Daniele for an intense and emotional portrait dedicated to an artist of our time, but especially the story of a man, a husband, a father and a friend.

A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.