Gianfranco Barra

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.

Giada and Riccardo are opposite. Giada takes her studies seriously. Riccardo simply wants to live the good life. A freak accident causes them to be attached by their forearms. How will they live together (Please somebody post a real overview)

O Eurochannel convida-os a rirem e refletirem sobre uma história que retrata um mundo microscópico, que prova que a vida vale sempre a pena ser vivida. Venham e percebam a razão, apesar dos problemas e sofrimentos, de existir alegria e desejo de ver o novo raiar do dia!

In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.

Turim. Quatro inocentes morrem em um atentado. Phillippa (Cate Blanchett), uma professora de inglês, não oferece resistência e permite que a prendam. Ela não nega seu ato, sua culpa. Mas seu alvo era outra pessoa: um traficante. Um jovem policial (Giovanni Ribisi) é o único que acredita na história da inglesa, pois está secretamente apaixonado por ela. Ele desenvolve um plano que lhe devolverá a liberdade, mesmo que isto custe sua carreira ou até mesmo sua vida. Ele sabe que não deve pedir nada em troca para provar seu amor. E sabe que não pode se arrepender de sua decisão.

by joseph sargent

Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amoroso e em intrigas políticas. Quando seu velho amigo Sir Edgar (James Fox) pede sua mão em casamento, Mary pede alguns dias para pensar na proposta. Durante este tempo, Mary conhece num jantar um americano (Sean Penn) com quem acaba se envolvendo romanticamente e para quem revela seu terrível segredo.

Tom Ripley levava uma vida solitária, mas ambicionava muito mais do que isso. Certo dia, um homem muito rico oferece-lhe uma oportunidade extraordinária: viajar para a Itália e convencer o seu filho, Dickie, a regressar para os Estados Unidos e abandonar a vida boémia e hedonística que havia adoptado. O encontro com Dickie e a sua namorada marca o início de uma relação estranha e perigosa que vai transformar para sempre as suas vidas.

The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.

A família Razzi possui uma pequena fábrica de doces em Macerata. Seu desejo de ampliar seus negócios para lidar com o novo mercado europeu unificado os leva a uma série de erros fatais que culminará por acabar com toda sua riqueza.

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.

Faith é uma professora que acredita que sua alma gêmea é um homem chamado Damon Bradley, pois quando era garota este nome apareceu em uma tábua Ouija e também por ter sido predito por uma cigana. O tempo passou e ela vai se casar com um médico. Faltando poucos dias do casamento ela atende o telefonema de um amigo do seu noivo, que pede desculpas por não poder ir a cerimônia pois está partido naquele instante para Veneza. O nome do amigo era Damon Bradley, o que faz com que ela não pense duas vezes e decida ir até Veneza, tentando encontrar um homem que ela não conhece.

In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.

A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him.

June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.

When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost everything to a German countess while gambling.

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?

Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Sixties. A group of kids are in their last year of high school. Renato, a young student, is in love with the beautiful Manuela but she does not reciprocate her feelings. One day Renato, on the occasion of his parents' departure, decides to hold a party at his house to which he invites Manuela and two other companions, but a few days later he ends up being suspended from school after having peeked into the girls' gym. So the protagonist plans to leave for Sweden in search of easy conquests but on the train he meets a beautiful lady who intends to betray her husband. Renato is unaware that she is the wife of one of her professors and the situation gets complicated.

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.

Banana Joe vive em Amantido, uma vila na foz de um rio em uma das muitas repúblicas da América do Sul, que de certa forma, escapou do progresso. Ele é um homem grande, pesado e poderoso, que vive entre os amigáveis nativos, levado carregamentos de banana. É o dia de azar de Joe quando o chefe da máfia de San Cristoban, a capital da República, forma uma organização para tomar conta de todo o negócio de bananas. Sendo Joe um analfabeto sem nenhum documento e sem licença para comercializar suas bananas, ele revida determinado a conseguir sua documentação e obter sua licença. Em San Cristoban, Joe entra em choque com a civilização que o manda para escanteio.

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.

Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met Filippo (Saverio Marconi), a bumbling astronomer , and after a series of mishaps, they got married.

Em 1922, com a ascenção de Mussolini e dos fascismo, a Itália como as outras potências européias, procuram aumentar suas zonas de comércio e exploração na África. A Itália volta os olhos para a Libia, onde iniciam uma grande guerra contra o povo local que resiste bravamente contra as forças modernas italianas. Os beduinos comandados pelo lider local Omar Mukhtar iniciam uma grande batalha pra expulsar as tropas italianas, que cada vez mais investem em armas e massacram o povo libiano. A intenção de Mussolini é dominar o Norte da África, porém ele encontra um grande obstáculo no líder da rebelião beduína Omar Mukhtar / Quinn. A única solução para garantir a vitória no combate é enviar um destemido general, que organiza uma operação violenta e sanguinária. Filme fidelíssimo à História, que mostra a determinação do povo com as medidas imperialistas dos colonizadores italianos. Com um elenco perfeito, Akkad dirige as cenas de guerra com forte realismo. Um filme de guerra fantástico.

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house. The result is an endless series of gags and misunderstandings, due to the stratagems devised by Lorenzo to avoid that the situation becomes the subject of gossip by fellow citizens ...

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.

A police commissioner and a political activist join to investigate the suspicious death of a playboy Prince.

15 anos após o monumental "Os Monstros", que foi um excelente exemplo de comédia de episódios italiano, 3 dos maiores eternos diretores italianos (Risi, Monicelli, Scola), os melhores escritores italianos de todos os tempos (Age, Scarpelli), os melhores atores italianos de sempre (Tognazzi Gassmann, Sordi), uma das mulheres mais bonitas do mundo (Ornella Muti) participam desse grande tributo. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos) O filme é dividido em 14 episódios: O Passarinho de Val Padana, Saudações dos Amigos, Tantum Ergo, Autostop, O Suspeito, Primeiros Socorros, Mamim e Mammon, Cidadão Exemplar, Pornodive, Sequestro de Amigo, Como Uma Rainha, Anfitriã!, Sem Palavras e Elogios Fúnebres. 4 Versões: 115 min - Itália 90 min - USA 100 min - Argentina 102 min - França

Don Vincenzo is a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...

When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a young baron and and even most of her male students. One of these, Andrea Balsamo is part of the family with whom Stefania is staying and as such has a stronger foothold than most of the other men in town

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he decides to go after her killers. During his investigation, he enters a world of intrigue and obfuscation that leave an endless trail of blood.

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.

A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. The baron, crippled and atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.

Italian comedy.

A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.

Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. There he falls in love with one of the whores.

Wendell Armbruster, um empresário de sucesso em Baltimore, vai para a Itália providenciar a devolução do corpo de seu pai magnata. E acaba descobrindo que ele morreu junto com sua amante de longa data.

Baseado em fatos reais, um maníaco realiza uma série de assassinatos envolvendo um grupo de crianças em um vilarejo da Sicília, na Itália. Com a cidade à beira da histeria, todos passam a serem suspeitos. Andrea Martelli (Tomas Milian) é um jornalista e tenta desvendar o verdadeiro culpado, enquanto a bela Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet) tenta se livrar das suspeitas levantadas contra ela, mas o medo acaba formando uma onda de violência com pessoas inocentes.

A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders

When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

Mimi é um trabalhador portuário siciliano que perde seu emprego quando ele vota contra o candidato mafioso no que ele pensa ser uma votação secreta. Ele deixa sua esposa para trás e vai para Turim, onde encontra Fiore, uma vendedora ambulante e ativista comunista. Eles se tornam amantes, vão morar juntos e têm uma criança. Mimi trabalha em empregos não sindicalizados e, novamente, chama a atenção da Máfia. Desta vez, eles ficaram impressionados, promovendo-o para um trabalho de supervisor na Sicília. Ele deve manter Fiore e a criança em segredo, com o que Fiore concorda desde que ele nunca faça amor com sua esposa. Ele aceita a condição mas quando ela fica gravida, ele sabe que ele é um cornudo. Sua vingança pessoal e os tentáculos da máfia então se entrelaçando de maneira trágica. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos) 3 versões de duração: - 121 min Itália - 112 min Alemanha - 108 min USA

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way

Em um momento de perturbação política interna na Itália, o inspetor de polícia recebe a tarefa de reprimir os dissidentes políticos. Dentre eles esta sua amante Augusta Terzi. Ele começa a testar os limites da polícia, vendo se irá ser acusado pelo crime. Assim, começa a plantar pistas óbivias que o identificam como o assassino da mulher, e vê seus colegas ignorando-as, seja intencionalmente ou não.

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.