Italy

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary’s elderly mother’s house, separated by a grim garden.Read More »

The film, based on the personal memories of Scola, specifically focuses on the early years of Fellini’s career: his arrival in Rome, the beginnings as a cartoonist in the editorial staff of the satirical magazine Marc’Aurelio (where he met among others precisely Scola), up to his first landfall in the cinema as a screenwriter.Read More »

Set against the backdrop of World War II, Blood Feud tells of the struggle against the Sicilian Mafia, from the streets of Sicily to the tenements of New York. Titina (Sophia Loren) is a happily married Sicilian housewife but, like so many others, is widowed early in life when her husband is brutally murdered by the Mafia. After spending ten years away, Spallone (Marcello Mastroianni), returns home and falls in love with Titina. Also returning to avenge his cousin’s death is Nick (Giancarlo Giannini), a small-time crook, who also falls for his cousin’s widow. In the deadly game of love as in war there is always a winner and a loser…Read More »

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Spazio: 1999 was originally distributed by Variety Film, and debuted in Italian cinemas on January 14, 1975. This was seven months prior to the premiere broadcasts of the TV series Space: 1999 in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States.

The Movie is a compilation of three episode: “Breakaway”, “Ring Around the Moon” and “Another time, Another Place”. These three episodes were edited down, amounting to around an hour of footage ending on the cutting room floor.Read More »

From Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.Read More »

Francesca Comencini tells the story of her special relationship with her father Luigi, master of Italian cinema, at the most difficult moment of her life. “First life, then cinema” are the words that Luigi speaks to Francesca on the set of Pinocchio, a sentence that is a little like the soul of the film and an omen of the dramatic moments to come that they will have to face together, as father and daughter, sealing a very strong relationship.Read More »

“Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.”Read More »

A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.Read More »

Mariano De Santis, (fictitious) President of the Italian Republic, is a veteran democrat, humanist and Christian politician, but he suddenly begins to have doubts about several important decisions he has to make, especially about whether or not to approve a law on euthanasia, posing a great moral dilemma.Read More »