Bob Messini

We are in the mid-60s, when a very young Mariele Ventre gave birth to the very first formation of the Piccolo Coro, originally composed of only eight children. In a few years the Piccolo Coro becomes a real school of choral singing. In its 56 years of history, there have been hundreds of small voices that have brought the music of Zecchino d’Oro and its repertoire around Italy and the world.

Él es un padre torpe y obsesivo, ella, una mujer coherente y que no quiere tener hijos. La pequeña Sofia, hija de él, cambiará su prespectiva y los obligará a ir más allá de sus límites.

Se asigna a un chef de 40 años de edad, mundialmente famoso y con problemas de manejo de la ira , para dirigir una clase de cocina en un centro para jóvenes con autismo.

Beatrice es una condesa charlatana y millonaria que está convencida de encontrarse entre los círculos íntimos de los líderes políticos mundiales. Por su parte Donatella es una joven tatuada, vulnerable e introvertida, envuelta en su propio halo de misterio. Ambas son pacientes de Villabiondi, una delirante institución psiquiátrica.

With humor and wit, Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom. Honing in on this seldom fully explored theme of adulthood, director Alessandro Colizzi brings us on a sincere and funny journey into life encumbered by children and the fainting sexual imagination that seems to go with it. - Vivian Yuen

A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".

Tres historias de amor tienen lugar simultáneamente en tres ciudades: Nueva York, París y Roma. Un escritor neoyorquino (Liam Neeson), que acaba de separarse de su esposa y se encuentra en París, mantiene una relación más bien problemática con su amante (Olivia Wilde). Una madre neoyorquina (Mila Kunis) niega tajantemente ser la responsable de un accidente que casi le cuesta la vida a su hijo. El padre del niño (James Franco) intenta que culpen a su mujer de negligencia para conseguir la custodia. En Roma, un empresario estadounidense (Adrien Brody), se enamora hasta tal punto de una gitana (Moran Atias) que participa en la liberación de la hija de su amante, a la que ha secuestrado un mafioso.

After spending most of his life being defeated by his rival Ottone, meek Biagio tries to commit suicide – but in the hereafter he's offered a chance to come back to life for a week as Dennis, Ottone's trusted business partner.

Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop

Angelo, un joven que con gran esfuerzo ha logrado salir de la pobreza, y Alberto, un guionista de éxito, se hacen amigos en la sala de urgencias de un hospital después de sufrir un infarto y llegan a compenetrarse de un modo absolutamente inexplicable dadas sus diferencias. Cuando por fin les dan el alta, descubren que necesitan estar juntos. Alberto, solitario por naturaleza e incapaz de darle a su novia lo que necesita, decide mudarse a casa de Angelo.

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.

Now 25, brilliant Marta seems to have her whole life ahead after majoring in philosophy, but she has to face the ugly truth for young graduates in Italy: a complete lack of work opportunities outside of temp jobs. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work at the call center of a company selling junk to housewives, quickly rising through its ranks and experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative competition culture pushed on young employees. Around her revolve other people, like delusional supervisor Daniela, her boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio, and well-meaning but inconsistent union official Giorgio.

Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.

Después de caer gravemente enfermo, un conocido actor se cuestiona su vida y sus relaciones.

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.

Nello Balocchi, un profesor de latín y griego de treinta y cinco años, es invitado a Bolonia por su padre, propietario de la sastrería papal en Roma. Su padre espera que Nello encuentre a su alma gemela en Bolonia, para que de este modo le dé un heredero para su negocio. Nello se hospeda en una pensión regentada por Arabella, una sabia mujer que conoce ya su situación, y comparte habitación con Domenico, un diestro barbero de Nápoles. Tras varios intentos infructuosos, Nello conoce a Ángela, una guapa y exuberante joven ciega de la que se enamora perdidamente. El padre de la chica y los padres de Nello no aprueban la relación, aunque el verdadero problema es el temperamento de Ángela.

Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.