Alberto Verso

O ano é 1939, a Europa passa pela Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apesar da tensão social, o produtor Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina), decide rodar um filme épico nos estúdios da Cinecittà. Nesta efervescente atmosfera, começam as filmagens, mas fora dos sets os protagonistas se apaixonam e procuram formas de escapar da realidade da guerra através do álcool e das drogas. Porém, com a guerra batendo à porta, Rieti começa a sofrer pressão psicológica de todos os lados - pelo governo, pelos bancos, e principalmente pela imprensa, que descobre que Rieti se relaciona com um homem. Rodeado pelo escândalo sexual e político, o grande épico é ameaçado pela polícia secreta, mas determinado a continuar e enfrentar a ameaça da polícia, Rieti e seu elenco decidem fazer um final extraordinário para a realização do filme, em apenas uma noite.

Tom Ripley (John Malkovich) possui um dom incomum: é capaz de imitar, com perfeição, a assinatura, a voz, o modo de se mexer, tudo numa pessoa. Para sobreviver Ripley utiliza este dom das mais diversas formas, até mesmo para cometer crimes. Num de seus golpes ele consegue, indiretamente, convencer Jonathan Trevanny (Dougray Scott) a assassinar um homem por uma grande quantia de dinheiro. Porém o que Ripley não contava era que a situação fugiria de seu total controle.

Set in 1940’s and 50’s Sicily (Paternò), we follow the fortunes of Rosetta from the time she’s twelve (Larissa Volpentesta) and living with her drunken father Leone (Harvey Keitel) – he’d turned to alcohol to forget Rosetta’s mother, Vipera (Elide Melli), after she ran away with a fascist some time ago. Little Rosetta’s fortunes turn for the worse when she’s raped and made pregnant by another former fascist (Giancarlo Giannini), and Leone also dies after falling from his bicycle. She’s sent to live in a convent until the age of twenty one, and her newborn child will cruelly be adopted out by her visiting mother.

Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christian was born. The kind boy had an unremarkable and calm life until, one day, his grandfather Carl Schneibel finds him. Schneibel is a wealthy businessman who had never seen Christian before. Since the old lonely man has no heir, he decides to take Christian in and offer him a good education. Schneibel has never been on good terms with his son and never liked his son’s choice of wife, so he decides that Gioia must not come along. Despite, Gioia does not wish to obstruct her son’s future and allows him to go. Thanks to his good nature and his kind ways, Christian wins the heart of his grandfather and changes his life for the better.

A deaf man rebels against his controlling mother by dating a high-school drop-out who shares his disability.

Tells the story of two young women who accidentally meet three young people of the high society. The two men and their female friend lure the unsuspecting girls into a house by the sea, where they start to play a mean game with hem by first irritating them before terrorizing and attack them. Meanwhile, the boyfriend of one of the girls starts searching for them.

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Everybody has something to hide, everybody seems guilty.

In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of disaster and tragedy, culminating with the inevitable intervention of the Gestapo. Despite the film's galloping sexual passions, The Berlin Affair is an exercise in aloofness, keeping the characters at arm's length-surprising, considering that the director was Liliana Cavani, auteur of the erotic classic The Night Porter (1974). The film was based on The Buddhist Cross, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.

During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.