Olimpia Carlisi

Aria, una niña de 9 años, tiene que enfrentar la separación de sus padres. Siente que nadie la quiere, en medio de las peleas y dejada de lado por sus hermanastras… Deambula por las calles con su bolso y su gato negro. E intenta preservar su inocencia a pesar de la desesperación.

Giovanna y Filippo llevan nueve años casados. Ella trabaja en una granja de pollos, cocina pasteles para un café local y cuida niños. Todo va bien hasta que deciden llevar a casa a Davide, un anciano desmemoriado que han encontrado en la calle. Giovanna, que le ayuda a reconstruir su pasado, siente pòr él una gran admiración. Por otra parte, cada vez más irritada con la pasividad de su marido, empieza a fijarse en el vecino de la casa de enfrente.

Después de un ensayo del Otelo, pasado por agua (la precaria sala está inundada), Sofía descubre que su apasionado romance con el director Bruno Maier no prosperará, ya que él es gay. Desesperada, se sube a un tren para tropezarse con una extraña que, despues de parir en el baño, huye, abandonando al recién nacido. Años después reaparecerá el director, al que Sofía le hace creer que el niño es hijo de ambos... (FILMAFFINITY)

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Christian martyr Artema. This historical drama is intertwined with a modern-day story of a poverty-stricken family, forced by earthquakes during the '70s to move to the country, a devastating blow to the close-knit family. After a 1997 Venice Film Festival screening at 125 minutes, the filmmakers announced their plans to re-edit to a shorter running time. Also known as Moonspins Between Land and Sea.

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.

In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of the wealthy. This movie takes that notion and transfers it to 18th century France. In the story, an English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.

Una joven bailarina americana llega a Hungría para inscribirse en una escuela de ballet y pronto se dará cuenta que las cosas no son lo que parecen.

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.

Nina, joven de provincias que descubre la capital, conoce gente por casualidad y realiza su aprendizaje del teatro y el amor. Paulot en primer lugar, la tranquilizadora figura de un hombre corriente, sólida como una roca. Luego Quentin, un actor caído atormentado por un drama pasado, violento como un rayo. Finalmente, Scrutzler, un director inflexible y exhausto que elige a Nina, la arroja al escenario. Una revelación nace a través de estos tres encuentros. Pero es consigo misma que Nina tiene una cita.

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates.

The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's satirical views on man, religion and society.

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

El hijo del dueño de una gran fábrica italiana de quesos es secuestrado, pero como la empresa está al borde de la quiebra, el propietario idea un plan para invertir el dinero del rescate en mejorar las instalaciones. (FILMAFFINITY)

Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.

En una terraza de Roma se reúne un grupo de personas. Algunos son amigos, otros conocidos y otros se acaban de conocer. Todos son intelectuales y pertenecen a la clase media. En una de esas reuniones se encuentran Enrico, un guionista en crisis, Amedeo, un productor, Luigi, editor y periodista, Sergio, un ejecutivo de TV, Galeazzo, que acaba de regresar de Venezuela, Bruno, productor de anuncios de TV, y Mario, un diputado del Partido Comunista. (FILMAFFINITY)

Dividida en dos segmentos. El primero adapta seis historias de los "Diálogos con Leucò" de Cesare Pavese, basados en la mitología clásica. El segundo adapta un fragmento de la novela de Pavese "La luna y la hoguera"

Giacomo Casanova, viejo bibliotecario del castillo del Dux, en Bohemia, recuerda su vida, repleta de historias de amor y de aventuras. Anciano, solo y desesperado, rememora los apasionantes viajes de su juventud por todas las capitales de Europa.

An Italian film

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Directed by José Varela

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

Pisa, 1942. Marcella, Olimpia’s daughter, is suffering from meningioma. Her husband Pierluigi and her brother Daniel attempt to relieve Olympia’s grief from the imminent loss of the child.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En una base aérea estadounidense del Mediterráneo, los pilotos caen como moscas. Uno de ellos, para librarse de una disparatada misión, finge estar loco y consigue huir a Suecia.