Laura Paolucci

Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Tragedy and fate seem to haunt him, yet he somehow manages never to get ensnared in the chaos—like his namesake, “the hummingbird”, he focuses all his energy at standing still.

A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to join ISIS. Using social media, she became a deadly matchmaker, recruiting a number of high-profile “jihadi brides” for ISIS militants in Syria: she allegedly helped organise the transporting of three British schoolgirls, including Shamima Begum, to Syria.

The story of a famous middle-aged writer and a college graduate who embark on a road trip that becomes a cross-generational counterpoint.

Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his childhood, after his brother Michele was murdered he joined forces with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, and put at his service his fury and his amazing aim, becoming a highly feared assassin. The State and the Church try to stem the wave of terror and only after more than 70 deaths, the peace of Aggius arrives. At first, Bastiano finds peace in his love for a pastor's daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him the devil's son when he was just a boy, someone like him cannot be found innocent. Thus, he chooses to confront his own destiny.

Duas famílias aparentemente incompatíveis: a Pavone e a Vismara. A primeira burguesa e intelectual, a outra proletário e fascista. Facções opostas que compartilham a mesma selva: Roma. Um incidente banal levará os dois polos à colisão. E a loucura de um homem levará a um confronto que revela que todos tem um segredo e ninguém é o que parece. E que somos todos predadores.

In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, high upon the rooftops framed by the Ilva steel factory, we meet Tonino a.k.a. “Barboncino” (poodle). Tonino has just committed a robbery and, in a moment of foolishness, fled from his accomplices, taking the entire loot for himself. He escapes upward, clambering from roof to roof, until he can go no further and must take refuge in an old water tank. Here he finds Renato, a strange and eccentric man who believes he is an American Indian from the Sioux tribe. Trapped with no other choice, Tonino is forced to team up with Renato. A strange and crazy friendship is formed, and Tonino learns to see things from a very different perspective.

A 27-year-old guy from a peripheral Roman suburb leads a normal but repetitive life: his conscience manifests in the form of an armadillo with whom he has conversations bordering on paradoxical during which he updates him on what's happening in the world. Based on the best-selling graphic novel.

Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.

Cláudia e Flavio foram perdidamente apaixonados por muito tempo até este relacionamento feroz finalmente chegar ao fim. Claudia então se descobre uma alma perdida aos 50 anos de idade e começa uma batalha para reconquistar o coração de Flavio, apesar deste já não lhe pertencer. O filme retrata com muito bom humor poderosas histórias de amor com as quais todos nós podemos nos relacionar.

While her best friend Vale can afford to be a full-time performer, aspiring dancer Eli has an unemployed husband and four children to take care of, and works all day long in a cafe on the opposite side of the city, meaning she has to wake up before dawn and comes home late at night. Her kind and effervescent nature still manages to overcome this hardships.

On Christmas Eve, Manuela Paris returns home to a seaside town near Rome. She has been absent for some time, ever since she left - still a girl - to be a soldier. With determination and sacrifice, Manuela laboriously built the life she dreamed of, until she became an army non-commissioned officer and platoon commander in an advanced base in the Afghan desert, responsible for the life and death of thirty men. But the bloody attack in which she was seriously wounded forces her into a very different and no less insidious war: against memories, disillusionment and pain, but also against the stereotypical role of woman and victim that society tries to impose on her. The meeting with the mysterious guest of the Hotel Bellavista, Mattia, a man apparently without a past and, like her, suspended in his own personal limbo of expectation and hope, is an opportunity to come to terms with his story. And to find that life is always worth living - because nobody, not even her, is what they seem.

The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.

Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing.

Pesquisador universitário, um químico é demitido para cortar gastos acadêmicos. Desempregado e sem ter como se sustentar, ele descobre sobre o valor das drogas e cria uma para comercializar. Ele decide reunir um grupo de ex-amigos acadêmicos e usar a habilidade de todos no negócio. As coisas ficam complicadas quando eles pssam a ser conhecidos e precisam lidar com um grande traficante.

The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.

After spending most of his life being defeated by his rival Ottone, meek Biagio tries to commit suicide – but in the hereafter he's offered a chance to come back to life for a week as Dennis, Ottone's trusted business partner.

Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop

Diaz - Política e Violência reconstrói com brutal e chocante realismo os eventos acontecidos durante o último dia do encontro do G8 de 2001, em Gênova, quando mais de 300 policiais atacaram a escola Diaz, buscando ativistas em protesto. O resultado foi uma explosão de cruel e descontrolada violência.

Diaz - Política e Violência reconstrói com brutal e chocante realismo os eventos acontecidos durante o último dia do encontro do G8 de 2001, em Gênova, quando mais de 300 policiais atacaram a escola Diaz, buscando ativistas em protesto. O resultado foi uma explosão de cruel e descontrolada violência.

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover.

An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover.

Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.

Em 2001, em Gênova, os líderes do G8 delegaram à polícia a tarefa de parar um movimento social que estava explodindo em todo o mundo. O Black Block nasceu com a intenção de resistir à repressão policial, ao controle a vida e protestar por meio da destruição de símbolos do capital uma vez que os protestos pacíficos vinham sendo ignorados. A ação direta rebelde causou muito desconforto e gerou reações imediatas daqueles que detinham o poder. O Documentário relata o brutal ataque policial a escola Diaz e as torturas que se seguiram. A narrativa é construída com relatos de algumas das vítimas que experimentaram a ação mais violenta já cometida pela polícia italiana.

Um vazamento no apartamento da Toscana do diretor Gianni arruinou o afresco do século 16 da capela ao lado. Para evitar ser processado, ele precisa aceitar a bizarra proposta do prefeito da cidade de dirigir as celebrações da Sexta-Feira Santa.

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.

Painel brutal e perturbador da máfia napolitana, uma das mais sangrentas e lucrativas da Itália atual.

Frequentemente, Pietro é acometido de uma estranha mistura de caos e calma. Desde a morte da sua mulher que não tem paz. Lara morreu, inesperadamente, num dia de Verão. Pietro não estava em casa, na altura. Estava na costa, a salvar a vida de uma outra mulher, uma desconhecida. A sua filha, Claudia, estuda no 5º ano. Um dia, quando está a levar a filha à escola, Pietro decide esperar por ela no carro. E continua a fazer o mesmo nos dias que se seguem. É como se estivesse a refugiar-se no carro, ali sentado, à espera da dor da solidão. Escondido no seu automóvel, começa a observar o ambiente e descobre os refúgios dos outros. Os seus patrões, colegas e familiares aparecem para reconfortá-lo. Mas a única coisa que conseguem fazer é falar-lhe da sua própria dor sem limites e fugirem da sua incompreensível calma. No entanto, Pietro começa lentamente a recuperar.

Frequentemente, Pietro é acometido de uma estranha mistura de caos e calma. Desde a morte da sua mulher que não tem paz. Lara morreu, inesperadamente, num dia de Verão. Pietro não estava em casa, na altura. Estava na costa, a salvar a vida de uma outra mulher, uma desconhecida. A sua filha, Claudia, estuda no 5º ano. Um dia, quando está a levar a filha à escola, Pietro decide esperar por ela no carro. E continua a fazer o mesmo nos dias que se seguem. É como se estivesse a refugiar-se no carro, ali sentado, à espera da dor da solidão. Escondido no seu automóvel, começa a observar o ambiente e descobre os refúgios dos outros. Os seus patrões, colegas e familiares aparecem para reconfortá-lo. Mas a única coisa que conseguem fazer é falar-lhe da sua própria dor sem limites e fugirem da sua incompreensível calma. No entanto, Pietro começa lentamente a recuperar.

In 1938 a group of fascists led by the general Gaetano Maria Barbagli decides to invade the planet of Mars.

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is obsessed with the desire to shape Sonia's body and mind as does a fire with gold. Almost imperceptibly Sonia becomes a passive participant and the relationship grows into a reciprocal masochistic game. When the two lovers isolate themselves in a country house in the Veneto hills, they dangerously lose touch with reality and the rest of the world.

The story he has been told by his grandfather was about people's dream to go out of their small town to Russia. For them, the greatest pleasure on the earth was taking a prostitute.

In a shabby residence on the coast between Livorno and Pisa, Mario, known as "Il Cormorano", a grumpy and disillusioned young man, works as a plumber to scrape together the sum necessary to realize his dream. He wants to join his uncle Piero in America to become an underground musician. His story is intertwined with that of Nevio, the cynical manager of the residence, of Gabriella, his naive and dreamy lover and of the maid Gaia who behind has a past as a drug addict, with whom Mario has a relationship of hate love. But reality is not as rosy as dreams:

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, all while going out with the latter's former girlfriend.

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, all while going out with the latter's former girlfriend.

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, all while going out with the latter's former girlfriend.

Four middle-aged friends leave for a summer weekend in Rimini, hoping to restart where they left off twenty years before.

Lupo Mannaro, based upon the novel by Carlo Lucarelli, is a psycho-thriller revolving around the police commissioner Romeo who is obsessively convinced that the unsuspected Engineer Velasco, well known and respected in his milieu, is a dangerous serial killer. Romeo together with his determined assistant Grazia Negro and police superintendent Rago starts investigating with the help of the famous criminologist Del Gatto. The commissioner will often find himself in difficulty but won't give up the investigation due to his obstinacy and his strong vocation. The case slowly turns itself into a personal challenge between Romeo and Velasco, with unpredictable moves as well as strategies of defence and attack.

Two friends reminisce about their last days of high school, when one of them ruined his shot at young love due to his jealousy and possessiveness.