Giovanni Guidelli

Farinata is tried in Florence and convicted of heresy 19 years after his death; his remains are missing, his sons barbarously killed. Solomon of Lucca is the inquisitor. A story too murky and dark not to bring it back to light.

Farinata is tried in Florence and convicted of heresy 19 years after his death; his remains are missing, his sons barbarously killed. Solomon of Lucca is the inquisitor. A story too murky and dark not to bring it back to light.

When six pals escape the chaos of the city for a brief getaway, the manor home they rent in the countryside may not be so idyllic after all… The party mood soon sours as strange phenomenon begins. The group initially attempts to rationalize the occurrences, but they soon escalate into horrifying paranormal events and, ultimately, the apparent possession of Giorgio. Desperate, the terrorized group pleads with the local priest to exorcise the unholy force. But its demonic powers may be more than he can handle… and a bigger menace than any of them could have imagined.

ヨーロッパを傷心旅行中のアメリカ人旅行者フランクは、ヴェネチアへ向かう列車の中で、ミステリアスな美女エリーズと知り合う。たちまち彼女の魅力のとりことなるフランクだったが、その出会いは偶然とはいえなかった。国際的に追われる大物犯罪者を恋人に持つエリーズは、捜査班を攪乱するため、背格好の似たフランクに目を付けたのだ。そんな事情を知らないフランクは、エリーズに誘われるまま行動をともにする。

Paola began an affair with a surgeon who is irresistibly drawn. But her husband is police and is investigating the death of this man's last lover.

The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.

An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.

What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.

With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.

In this loose remake of Black Sunday (1960), a group of skiers in Northern Italy land in a huge crevasse where they find the body of a long dead girl covered by a mask. Out of curiosity and nothing better to do they remove the mask and start playing games with it. Turns out this dead girl is the witch Anibas who had been condemned to die by burning and the mask put on her face to prevent her return.

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.

Girolamo, a teenager from a good family suffering from bone tuberculosis, is hospitalized in a sanatorium where he is forced to suffer the harassment of his rough roommate, sadistically backed by an Austrian nurse. To alleviate his suffering a little will be the tender friendship with Polly, a sweet English girl.

第二次大戦末期、ドイツ軍から逃げ出した人々がパルチザンと出会う。しかし彼らを追ってファシストたちが銃を向けてきた……。第二次大戦末期のトスカーナ地方を舞台に繰り広げられた戦争の悲劇。村を破壊し撤退を試みるドイツ軍から逃げ出した数名の村民たちが、北上するアメリカ軍の保護を求め旅する姿を描く。

In 1943, a group of Italian and Allied soldiers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned villa. When they discover that they are in fact dead and that the villa is the starting point of their journey into afterlife, each character tells his life story, united in the belief that they have died unjustly in a senseless war. The youngest, whose wife is expecting a child, wants to return to the world.