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...

Uma pequena loja na Itália está prestes a fechar as portas. Quando a jovem e bela Camila assume a limpeza do lugar, as coisas ao redor começam a mudar, influenciadas pela sua presença. Ela afeta a vida de todos, até mesmo de seu irmão Gigio, que é portador de síndrome de down.

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.

Titta Di Girolamo é um homem introvertido que vive num Hotel na Suíça há quase 10 anos, com uma rotina rígida, ignorando os que estão à sua volta. Até que um dia decide quebrar uma das suas regras e troca algumas palavras com Sofia, a atraente barmaid do hotel. A partir desse momento o terrível passado de Titta começa a revelar-se.

Matt Benson é um agente do FBI que é enviado para Sicília, na Itália, para investigar o assassinato de uma família vítima de um atentado terrorista, cujo único sobrevivente é o menino Ettore, de 11 anos de idade. Preocupado com a segurança do garoto, ele resolve trazê-lo para sua bela casa, localizada de frente para o vulcão Ginostra, onde vive com sua mulher Jessie e uma filha de cinco anos. Matt só não sabia que, ao abrir a porta de sua casa para a única testemunha daquele crime brutal estava também transformando sua vida num verdadeiro iferno. Um inferno cujas matérias primas são o perigo, o medo e o inesperado despertar do vulcão, cujas chamas ameaçam a vida de todos.

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.

Julia, uma mulher americana, vivendo na Itália, torna-se deprimida e traumatizada depois que seu marido Paolo é morto em um acidente de carro no dia do casamento. Seis anos mais tarde, Julia inexplicavelmente encontra-se deslizando no tempo entre dois mundos diferentes, onde em que ela ainda está lutando com a sua dor pela morte de Paolo, e no outro mundo, ela é casada com Paolo, que está vivo e bem com o seu filho de cinco anos, onde Júlia está tendo um caso com um cavalheiro britânico chamado Daniel, em que o sobrenatural freqüente deslizamento entre esses dois mundos ameaçam a sanidade de Julia, quando ela começa a ter dificuldade em distingui-los e aprender em que mundo está vivendo atualmente dentro.

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...

Nesta continuação de Meus Caros Amigos, os velhos companheiros de escola estão no cemitério visitando o túmulo do falecido amigo Giorgio Perozzi (Philippe Noiret). O falido conde Lello Mascetti (Ugo Tognazzi), o Doutor Sassaroli (Adolfo Celi), o arquiteto Rambaldo Melandri (Gastone Moschin) e o dono do restaurante Necchi (Renzo Montagnani) brincam e recordam as grandes façanhas realizadas pelo divertido grupo de amigos. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

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.

A Travessia de Cassandra é um 'Disaster Movie', com grande elenco de estrelas, sobre a odisseia aterrorizante de 1000 passageiros presos a bordo de um trem contaminado por uma peste. Um terrorista infectado com um vírus mortal ataca o Expresso Estocolmo-Genebra e expõe todos a bordo para a doença. O coronel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) é chamado para lidar com a situação e descobre que o Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) está a bordo do trem. Mackenzie decide direcionar o trem para a Travessia de Cassandra, onde ele vai mergulhar no esquecimento. Mas os passageiros milagrosamente começam a se recuperar e Chamberlain deve correr contra o tempo para desconectar os vagões da locomotiva e salvar todos.

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.

Conhecido como "o rei da comédia italiana", o diretor Mario Monicelli dirigiu nos anos 70 esta irreverente e engraçadíssima história sobre velhos amigos de escola. Através do jornalista e narrador Giorgio Perozzi (Philippe Noiret) conhecemos o cotidiano de cinco cinquentões que adoram pregar peças e passar trotes em quem se atreve a passar na frente deles. Pequenas histórias do grupo que contadas por Perozzi nos apresenta Lello Mascetti (Ugo Tognazzi), o conde falido; o Doutor Sassaroli (Adolfo Celi), o arquiteto Rambaldo Melandri (Gastone Moschin) e Necchi (Duílio Del Prete). Para morrer de rir! (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

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.

Dois episódios sobre o tema amor e morte. No primeiro, ambientado na Rússia do século XIX, temos uma paixão veemente de que uma rivalidade familiar se transforme em tragédia. O segundo é uma comédia de Boccaccio na Sicília contemporânea.

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.

Paronzini aos 50 anos, decide se casar e ele acha as três irmãs Tettamanzi. Emerenziano (Ugo Tognazzi) é o inspetor de impostos de meia idade que está em busca de uma esposa rica. Ele viaja para o norte da Itália, onde conhece três irmãs, que, apesar de ricas, não são tão jovens ou lindas. Ele decide casar com uma delas e então leva as outras duas como amantes. As irmãs virgens são lentamente transformadas em pessoas vorazes, cada uma possuindo seus próprios talentos sexuais individuais. Tudo parece estar bem para ele até encontrar uma jovem garçonete com quem ele se enreda e, como resultado, se torna um prisioneiro indefeso submetido aos caprichos das fêmeas famintas do amor. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)