Rita Polidori

A ceia de Natal está pronta. A família Colapietro irradia paz e tranquilidade. A casa paterna se enche de risos, gritinhos de crianças, muitas lembranças em comum, muitos segredinhos, histórias picantes e fofocas para trocar. Antecipando as delícias da mesa, todos esperam o momento de começar a mais esperada comemoração do ano. Então, a matriarca da família anuncia que ela e o marido estão muito velhos para continuarem vivendo sozinhos e decidiram ir morar com um de seus filhos ou filhas. É claro que ninguém quer ficar com os velhos, e a festa ameaça virar uma autêntica batalha entre irmãos, todos ansiosos para se livrarem da incômoda responsabilidade.

An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.

Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper.

Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. Here he starts immediately a new relationship with "Cosa Nostra" (Italian American Mafia). He is going to seat on the peak of the most powerful criminal organization, and the Italian authorities are almost impotent.