Angela Goodwin

In a curious-looking old hospital, an elderly couple, Carlo and Clara, is waiting for their turn tenderly holding hands. There is a choice to be made, and the woman begins to hesitate. Only the words of the loving Carlo will be able to transform fear into courage. At one point the setting makes way for animation, suggested and overlapped by the words of Clara. It leads the listener to a deep reflection on life. The brief evocation of the magic of existence is imprinted in the deeply moved smile of the woman, certain that life on Earth is nothing but a stage of eternity.

Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a terrible car accident on the way home, leaving her disfigured. Yet what might well seem to be the coup de grace for Bella’s career turns out to be the perfect occasion to relaunch her own image...

A group of Roman misfits spend the fall minding a vintage shop called Twinkled, a business that is failing in every way but in spirit. The owner strives to keep the store afloat, even as his wife insists that he sell the place and get a real job. One day a beautiful young woman named Camilla takes a job cleaning the store, and her presence has a profound effect on the lives of everyone, including Stefano, the well-meaning but unorganized shopkeeper, and Gigio, Camilla's loving younger brother who has Down's syndrome.

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

질로라모는 판에 박힌 일상을 지루하게 살아가고 있다. 뭔가 알 수 없는 그 무엇을 기다리며 거의 10년전부터 스위스의 루가노 호텔에서 그저 무미한 일상을 보내고 있는 것이다. 그의 생활은 일정한 궤도 내에서 한 치의 흐트러짐 없이 반복되는 일상이 기다리고 있을 뿐이며 그는 그것을 벗어나는 삶을 용납하지 않는다. 주변의 인위적인 인간관계나 개인 감정 따윈 안중에도 없고 그 또한 스스로 아무 감정이 없다. 아무 얘깃거리도 없는 것이다. 그러던 어느 날 그가 그의 모든 삶의 규칙을 깨고 호텔 바텐더인 소피아와 몇 마디의 대화를 나누기로 결심을 한다. 그러자 삽시간에 엄청난 변화가 밀려들어 오면서 그의 삶은 송두리째 일대 변혁을 맞게 된다.

An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.

The story of two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, who are on the decline and lead strangely parallel lives. One is a pop singer whose success ends after a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.

Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.

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

Ti presento un'amica (internationally released as Private Affairs and Quite by Chance) is a 1988 comedy drama film directed by Francesco Massaro.

Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Giulia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other world she is married to Paolo who's alive and well with their five year old son, where Giulia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel, in which the frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Giulia crazy when she begins having difficulty in telling them apart and learning which world she is currently living in. (First movie filmed with Sony HDVS camera, in High Definition.)

In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.

Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikely romance follows.

Italian tearjerker about an up and coming swimming star struggling with a serious illness.

A horror film director, now forgotten, invites a young author who wrote the screenplay for a film, “Effetti speciali”. As long as he is remembered, the director is willing to do anything.

As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side. Before he can confront the traitor, the man seemingly goes crazy, sniping several people before taking an adulterous couple hostage in a hotel room.

A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.

세 명의 테러리스트가 제네바의 국제 건강 기구에 침입한다. 그러나 출입 금지 구역에서 벌어진 총격전으로 한명은 사살되고, 나머지 두 사람은 전염성이 강한 치명적인 병균에 노출된다. 그리고 그들 중 한 명이 1,000여명의 승객을 태운 대륙 종단 초특급 열차에 무단 승차한다. 이 사실을 알게 된 미 국방부 정보국은 비상이 걸리고, 맥켄지 대령(Mackenzie: 버트 랭카스터 분)이 사건을 담당하게 된다. 그의 임무는 세균이 퍼지는 것을 막는 동시에 어떤 일이 있어도 이 일이 알려지지 않도록 하는 것이다. 한편 맥켄지와의 무선 연락으로 이 사실을 알게 된 챔버레인 박사(Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: 리차드 해리스 분)는 그 기차에 탄 수많은 인명을 구하기 위해 맥켄지에게 협조한다. 그러는 중에도 열차 안에는 세균에 감염된 환자들이 점점 늘어가고 있었다. 하지만 챔버레인 박사는 격리 시설로 향하는 도중 지나게 되는 '카산드라 크로싱' 이라는 다리의 안정성에 의문을 제기하고, 열차 전체를 생매장하려는 맥켄지의 음모를 깨닫게 된다.

Two members of the fascist legion GOD WANTS IT, Michele and Luigi, both from Sicily, met in Malaga and became friends in the course of the 1936-39 counter revolution. Based upon the short story by Leonardo Sciascia.

Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.

Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.

A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.

Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.

A story about ten year old Enrico who spends the summer in the village mostly playing Indians with his friends.

Two episodes on the theme of love and death. In the first, set in nineteenth-century Russia, we have a vehement passion that a family feud turns into tragedy. The second is a Boccaccio comedy in contemporary Sicily.

Directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ennio De Concini, Daniele e Maria (1973) is the tale of a forbidden romance between a rich and reclusive boy and the poor girl whose kindness opens up his formerly sheltered life. As the familiar setup from Romeo and Juliet suggests, the romance can only have a tragic ending as Maria is whisked away from her love and is forced into a loveless marriage organized by the rich family sheltering Daniele…

A young provincial elementary school teacher, falls in love with a Venetian girl, daughter of a rich industrialist.

At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.