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A love story between a husband and wife who got lost, and not just because of a betrayal.
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In a world saturated with music, a girl who is born without the means to hear it. The disease is called Amusia. It exists but nobody knows about it and it tortures her but nobody believes it. She had a lonely childhood which she spent defending herself from accusations and prejudice. The disease, and lack of acceptance, push her to run away, finding herself in a forgotten suburban neighbourhood. There she befriends a boy who is fighting his own solitude through music as he tries to prevent his own dreams from rotting away.
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Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Tragedy and fate seem to haunt him, yet he somehow manages never to get ensnared in the chaos—like his namesake, “the hummingbird”, he focuses all his energy at standing still.
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In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
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Una antigua prisión del siglo XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccesible e indeterminada del territorio italiano, está siendo abandonada. Por problemas burocráticos, los traslados están bloqueados, y quedan alrededor de una docena de presos, con pocos agentes, esperando nuevos destinos. En esa atmósfera extraña, poco a poco, las reglas parecen tener cada vez menos sentido, los protocolos se relajan y se vislumbran nuevas formas de relación entre los hombres que allí quedan.
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Two immigrants living on the fringes of American society hit the road in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
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A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Toni Servillo) se encuentra en el momento más complicado de su carrera política, recién salido del gobierno y con las acusaciones de corrupción y de sus conexiones con la mafia a punto de llegar a los juzgados. Sergio Morra (Riccardo Scamarcio) es un atractivo hombre hecho a sí mismo que sueña con dar el salto de sus cuestionables negocios de provincia a escala internacional. El camino más rápido para conseguirlo es acercarse a Silvio, el hombre más poderoso de Italia. Para Sergio solo hay una manera de llamar la atención de Il Cavaliere: las fiestas, las velinas, las extravagancias y el exceso.
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"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
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Biopic sobre el ex Primer ministro italiano y empresario Silvio Berlusconi, centrada en la figura de «Il Cavaliere» a partir del año 2000 y que narra una historia de ficción, a partir tanto de diversos eventos personales y políticos como de hechos "probables o inventados". El 24 de abril se estrenó en Italia la primera parte de esta biografía, que se dividió en dos partes por su larga duración. La segunda se espera que se estrene en Italia el 10 de mayo de 2018.
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To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
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John es despistado pero tenaz. Ella es frágil pero ingeniosa. Juntos inician un viaje por Estados Unidos huyendo del asfixiante cuidado de sus médicos e hijos. Desde Boston hasta Key West, la pareja recorre una América que no reconocen a bordo de su vieja autocaravana. El viaje les hará compartir buenos y malos momentos a la vez que les devolverá su amor y pasión por la vida.
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En un pequeño pueblo siciliano, Giuseppe, un chico de 13 años, desaparece. Luna, una compañera de clase que le quiere, se niega a aceptar su desaparición. Se rebelará contra el silencio y la complicidad que la rodean y descenderá al mundo oscuro que se lo llevó y cuya entrada es un misterioso lago.
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The Cinema Mexico is one of the last single-screen cinemas left in Milan. Its story is inextricably tied to the figure of Antonio Sancassani who ran it independently for the past thirty years taking care of every single aspect. At the cinema Mexico he presents independent films, debuts, films in original version, documentaries, forgotten films or films that have been "burned" by large-scale distribution offering them a second chance. The thirty-six years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and two extraordinary years of The Wind Blows Round are only some of the successes that have made of the cinema a reference point for insiders from all over Italy. A passionate portrait that reflects on the fate of small cinemas and on the difficulties for independent cinema that is suffocated by the laws of the market, by online streaming and by the television.
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Lorenzo, de unos 70 años, vive en un antiguo edificio del centro de Nápoles, es una persona indiferente y egoísta que hace tiempo que dejó de querer a sus dos hijos. Algo cambia al llegar una pareja con niños al piso que se encuentra enfrente del del viejo Lorenzo. Michela es hermosa y vivaracha; Fabio es un ingeniero naval de Trieste inquieto, inestable y con dejes de infantilismo. Lorenzo no tardará en encariñarse de esta familia aparentemente perfecta que representa algo que nunca fue capaz de encontrar en sus hijos. Sin embargo, una enorme tragedia acontecerá entonces, un delito característico de la peor crónica de sucesos, que provocará que el padre, anciano, y la hija, quien busca testarudamente una reconciliación, revisen de algún modo su relación afectiva.
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Una película sobre la adolescencia, sobre la primera vez, sobre la búsqueda de la felicidad. Pero también sobre el "bullying" o la homofobia.
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Go inside the building that has been the source of some of the greatest moments in music, ballet and opera.
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In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a netherworld he may never escape.
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A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog
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Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine), un gran director de orquesta, pasa unas vacaciones en un hotel de los Alpes con su hija Lena y su amigo Mick, un director de cine al que le cuesta acabar su última película. Fred hace tiempo que ha renunciado a su carrera musical, pero hay alguien que quiere que vuelva a trabajar; desde Londres llega un emisario de la reina Isabel, que debe convencerlo para dirigir un concierto en el Palacio de Buckingham, con motivo del cumpleaños del príncipe Felipe.
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This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director’s artistic defeat in an Italy that recognised itself in this “Berlusconian culture” for a long time, and probably still does.
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Lo curioso de esta película es el hecho de que hasta trece cineastas van a aportar su pequeño granito de arena con la intención de mostrar varias perspectivas acerca de Sarajevo, exhibiendo con ello una serie de lecciones sobre los aspectos más ilusionantes pero también más crueles de dicho territorio en el viejo continente. La trama arranca en el desarrollo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, siguiendo a continuación con muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en uno de los puntos más destacados en lo que se refiere a la evolución histórica de Europa en el siglo XX.
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Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
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A meek middle-aged man takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to feel useful and keep his dignity—until something shakes his inexhaustible optimism.
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Una historia ambientada en la ciudad de Roma. Se trata de un retrato desde la mirada de Jap Gambardella, un periodista de 65 años, que regresa a la ciudad en la que nació para recuperar sus recuerdos y esencia juveniles, y con ello reflejar la brillantez, hermosura y variedad de la capital italiana.
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A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore fi nd a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon.
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Documentary about Medici con l'Africa CUAMM, one of Italy's foremost humanitarian NGOs to operate in Africa.
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What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in search of this feeling exploring the city of Venice and its lagoon, prying into its less-known corners and listening to the stories of six citizens: a hotel waitress, an old archaeologist, a pensioner from Mestre, a painter/fisherman, an apartment burglar and a young boy.
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Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
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Shun Li ha viajado desde china hasta Roma para ganarse la vida de cualquier forma. La inmigrante ha conseguido un empleo en una fábrica textil situada a las afueras de la capital y ve más cerca su sueño: legalizar su situación y ahorrar para poder traerse a su hijo, de apenas ocho años, a Italia. Pronto, Shun Li es trasladada a Chioggia, un pueblo de Venecia, para trabajar como camarera en un club donde conocerá a Bepi, uno de los clientes más fieles del sitio. Bepi, apodado el poeta, se gana la vida como pescador, aunque lo que verdaderamente le apasiona son los caminos de la poesía –justificación a su sobrenombre- y la filosofía. Entre la camarera y el poeta surge pronto la amistad y ambos mantienen conversaciones bastante trascendentales que se convierten en una vía de escape a la soledad y la rutina diarias. Sin embargo, no todos los habitantes de esta comunidad pesquera verán esta amistad intercultural con buenos ojos.
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Cheyenne es una antigua estrella de rock. A pesar de sus cincuenta, conserva una imagen gótica y vive en Dublín de los derechos de autor. La muerte de su padre, con quien no tenía relación alguna, le lleva a Nueva York, donde descubre que su progenitor vivía con una obsesión: vengarse de una humillación de la que había sido víctima. Cheyenne decide hacer realidad ese deseo de venganza, pero, para ello tendrá que emprender un viaje a través de América.
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Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.
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A un fracasado director de cine se le ofrece la oportunidad de montar la pasión de Cristo en un pueblo, con divertidas consecuencias.
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James, escritor inglés, llega a Italia para dar un conferencia sobre la publicación de su nuevo libro que trata el tema de las estrechas relaciones que hay en el arte entre un original y una copia. Allí se encuentra con una jóven mujer de origen francés, galerista. Parten juntos por algunas horas a San Gimignano, pequeño pueblo cercano a Florencia. ¿Cómo distinguir el original de la copia, la realidad de la ficción?
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An unexpected pregnancy and premature birth become a burden that Maria is unprepared for. Lacking control over events for the first time in her life, she retreats into an emotional space where she is alone, until the day arrives when she must learn to live again for the sake of her vulnerable child.
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Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.
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Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
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Film sobre una de las figuras más controvertidas de la política italiana, el que fuera jefe del gobierno en siete ocasiones, Giulio Andreotti. Narra las presuntas relaciones de Andreotti con la mafia siciliana, delitos por los que fue procesado en los años 90 y absuelto por falta de pruebas.
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En el idílico escenario de un pueblecito a orillas del Po, surge el amor entre Hassan y Mara. Él es un mecánico tunecino que, tras años de duro trabajo, se ha ganado el respeto de sus vecinos. Ella es una joven a punto de partir a Brasil con una ONG. Giovanni, un chico que aspira a ser periodista, es testigo de esta historia de amor. La vida de los tres dará un giro tras una serie de inesperados y dolorosos sucesos.
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Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
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Historia de la división de culturas y puntos de vista entre Oriente y Occidente a través de la historia de Vincenzo, un ingeniero italiano que se ve de repente en un viaje que le cambia la vida... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Roma, años 80. Tres jóvenes delincuentes, Libanés, Frío y Dandy, con la ayuda de una improvisada banda de malhechores, entre ellos El Negro, un extremista que se cree el último samurai, secuestran y asesinan brutalmente a un rico propietario. El dinero del rescate deciden invertirlo en el negocio de la heroína. Así nace una organización criminal despiadada que elimina a todos sus rivales, controla completamente el tráfico de drogas y se alía con la Mafia. Al mismo tiempo se beneficia de la protección de los hombres sin rostro a los que el gobierno asigna el trabajo sucio. Mientras tanto, las autoridades están enfrascadas en la lucha contra el terrorismo de las Brigadas Rojas y subestiman la avalancha de violencia y dinero sucio que inunda y domina Roma.
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Lugano, Suiza. Titta Di Girolamo es un hombre discreto y huraño que vive desde hace casi una década en una modesta habitación de hotel, prisionero de una rutina atroz, aparentemente sin propósito. Su pasado es un misterio, nadie sabe a qué se dedica, responde con evasivas a preguntas indiscretas. ¿Qué secretos esconde este hombre enigmático?
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Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
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A woman comes across the difficulties of modern work: to force her to resign from her job, her firm tries all the humiliation techniques known as "mobbing". The film is based upon real cases reported by Italian unions.
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The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).
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The film recounts Carlo Giuliani’s day of July 20 and, parallel to it, the July 20 of the march of the ‘disobedients’, or the ‘white overalls’, among whose ranks Carlo died. An individual’s story is told in all its absolute concreteness, the friends he meets, the snack bar he goes to for a bite, the roll of scotch tape he picks up on the street; whereas a multitude’s story is told in all its epic tragedy, the night under the rain, the colossal preparation against the march, the advance behind shields, the attack of which the multitude was victim, the defense that gets organized.
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For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.
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This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and foreigners alike—deal with various issues as they try to resume normal lives in a homeless situation.
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Lupo Mannaro, based upon the novel by Carlo Lucarelli, is a psycho-thriller revolving around the police commissioner Romeo who is obsessively convinced that the unsuspected Engineer Velasco, well known and respected in his milieu, is a dangerous serial killer. Romeo together with his determined assistant Grazia Negro and police superintendent Rago starts investigating with the help of the famous criminologist Del Gatto. The commissioner will often find himself in difficulty but won't give up the investigation due to his obstinacy and his strong vocation. The case slowly turns itself into a personal challenge between Romeo and Velasco, with unpredictable moves as well as strategies of defence and attack.
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Rosalba se há quedado olvidada por parte de su marido y sus hijos en la cafetería de la autopista.
Ella tratará de volver a casa por su cuenta, pero el destino hace que se detenga en Venecia...
y decide quedarse unos días para ver la ciudad.
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A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene from a movie.
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A Donatello award nominated short feature about two six year old children in a world of their own.
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Una joven monja de Milán, Caterina, se encuentra en un parque a un recién nacido abandonado. En su intento por encontrar a la madre del bebé conocerá a personas y situaciones que le harán plantearse su vocación. Su única pista sobre el bebé le conduce a Ernesto, propietario de una tintorería, un hombre siempre solitario que sólo piensa en el trabajo. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Historia de dos hermanos sicilianos emigrados a Turín. Giovanni, el mayor, acaricia un ambicioso proyecto, que aparentemente está muy lejos de sus posibilidades, pero está dispuesto a hacer lo que sea con tal de hacerlo realidad: desea que Pietro, su hermano pequeño, obtenga el título de maestro. El problema es que Pietro no quiere estudiar. (FILMAFFINITY)
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14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.
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El italiano Stefano llega a la isla Dolphin frente a la costa de Georgia y consigue un trabajo como personal de mantenimiento en un motel. Él entabla un romance con una joven con problemas emocionales, que trabaja como mucama / lavandera de motel y stripper en un pequeño pueblo costero en Georgia.
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En un Palermo degradado, poético y grotesco, suceden tres episodios surrealistas que tienen a un pobre jugador, un anciano homosexual y un improbable Mesías. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.
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A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.
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Luna is an endearingly prudish teacher in Milan, who lives with her grumpy father. Often teased by students and co-workers alike, her only ally is the janitor, Angelo, who harbors a secret crush on Luna. When a carnival comes to town, Luna meets a man who possesses a magic lamp, which he uses to free her "shadow self." This doppelganger is Luna's polar opposite, whose presence poses both a problem and an opportunity for Luna.
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Cuando una madre muere en extrañas circunstancias, su hija trata de averiguar cómo sucedieron los hechos y qué hizo su madre en las últimas horas de su vida. Todo ello conduce al análisis de la traumática relación que hubo siempre entre ellas, cuyo origen fue una una mentira infantil que marcó sus vidas.
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An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
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Tras la caída del comunismo, los albaneses sueñan con un futuro mejor y confían en la generosidad de la vecina Italia, pero la realidad dista mucho de sus sueños. Algunos de ellos son contratados por Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) y Fiore (Michele Placido), dos empresarios italianos que acaban de comprar una antigua fábrica de zapatos con la única intención de hacer dinero rápido a costa de los inmigrantes. Sin embargo, una serie de circunstancias hacen que uno de ellos conozca en carne propia el drama de la inmigración. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?
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Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
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Right after she moves in with him, Frederico's new girlfriend Francesca sends him back to her former boyfriend's apartment to fetch her something she forgot - but he's surprised to find him lying there - dead. Assuming that Francesca killed him and sent him for cleaning up, he cuts him up in pieces, puts him in a suitcase and tries to get rid of it... but he has a hard time finding a suitably quiet place. Unfortunately there's a witness, who comes back on him. One thing leads to another, and the normally shy and overly fearful Frederico has to rid himself of more and more corpses until this black comedy ends.
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Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles.
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Set in Milan in the summer of 1989 against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film follows four frustrated individuals whose lives intertwine because of the loss of a planner.
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A criminal saves a cop's daughter from drowning, then forces the cop to shelter him from the police after a bank robbery.
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Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.
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Blue-collar workers, executives, and other people at the Pirelli Bicocca plant talk about the upcoming shutdown of the factory. It's the end for a piece of history of Italian industry and also for a place of memory of workers' struggle: the movie documents the different reactions and scales of awareness determined by class belonging to the functions held in the factory by the interviewees.
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A look at the daily lives of the patients of a psychiatric day-hospital near Milan, nearly ten years after the closure of insane asylums in Italy.
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A look at the daily lives of the patients of a psychiatric day-hospital near Milan, nearly ten years after the closure of insane asylums in Italy.
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Giulia has a one-night stand with a stranger to forget a heartbreak. Aimlessly walking through October city streets to let off steam, she meets a woman who came from Turin seeking an explanation from her partner, who doesn't even want to see her. The two join forces and settle accounts with him. Neither of them feels like going home and being alone, so they spend the whole night wandering around Milan.
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A man leaves suddenly. Two men chase him. A woman in black and white. The landscape – the one outside and the one inside of the characters – takes over. Landscape of images and words.
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A man leaves suddenly. Two men chase him. A woman in black and white. The landscape – the one outside and the one inside of the characters – takes over. Landscape of images and words.
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When a British businessman's daughter is kidnapped in the Italian Alps, a cat and mouse game begins between the abductors and the hired gun sent to bring the girl back home.