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.

Судьбы двух римских семей пересекаются из-за нелепой случайности. Семья Павоне — утонченные интеллектуалы и буржуа, живущие в центре Рима. Семья Висмара из небогатого пригорода — дерзкие пролетарии и… неофашисты. Два противоположных мира сталкиваются, и последствия этого будут неожиданными для всех.

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.

Claudia and Flavio were once passionately in love, but all of that is over. Now, in their fifties, they must venture anew into the world of love and dating once more but for Claudia confronting the end and accepting a new beginning isn’t so easy. Claudia is unwilling to let go and forget the life she’s built with Flavio, while Flavio, eager to move on, soon finds himself in a relationship with a much younger woman. Claudia soon reconnects with Nina, a student from her days as a professor.

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.

Франческо и Клаудия, молодые, красивые и успешные, — друзья не разлей вода уже много лет. Между ними нет абсолютно никаких секретов. Они любят весело проводить время и дурачатся как малые дети. У Клаудии даже есть ключи от квартиры Франческо, куда она может заглянуть в любое время. Но однажды девушка знакомится с Джованни, и тот принимается настойчиво за ней ухаживать, а вскоре уже зовет замуж.

В университете начинаются сокращения, в числе уволенных оказывается талантливый научный работник. Чем может зарабатывать человек, который всю жизнь учился? Идея поразительно проста: нужно создать преступную группировку, подобной которой мир ещё не видывал. Он решает производить психотропные таблетки, для чего собирает вместе своих бывших коллег, которые, несмотря на свои знания, оказались на обочине общества. Успех приходит незамедлительно: наконец-то у них есть деньги, власть, женщины. Единственная проблема состоит в том, как управлять таким коллективом…

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

Ретроспектива событий 21 июля 2001 года на саммите большой восьмёрки в Генуе, когда группа мирно протестующих активистов была жестоко избита и арестована полицией с применением самых жутких издевательств и пыток. Правозащитная организация Международная Амнистия позднее назовёт эти события самым грубым нарушением прав человека в Западной Европе со времен Второй мировой войны.

Ретроспектива событий 21 июля 2001 года на саммите большой восьмёрки в Генуе, когда группа мирно протестующих активистов была жестоко избита и арестована полицией с применением самых жутких издевательств и пыток. Правозащитная организация Международная Амнистия позднее назовёт эти события самым грубым нарушением прав человека в Западной Европе со времен Второй мировой войны.

Главный герой — 30-летний графолог Мете, зачарованный тайнами, которые может раскрыть человеческий почерк. За неделю до свадьбы отца с новой пассией сводная сестра Мете, 17-летняя подросток-озорница Белинда, переезжает в его римскую квартиру — и новое соседство становится началом совсем не дружеских отношений.

Главный герой — 30-летний графолог Мете, зачарованный тайнами, которые может раскрыть человеческий почерк. За неделю до свадьбы отца с новой пассией сводная сестра Мете, 17-летняя подросток-озорница Белинда, переезжает в его римскую квартиру — и новое соседство становится началом совсем не дружеских отношений.

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.

Четто Ла Квалункве — простой человек. Он хочет всего и сразу, и ему все равно, каким образом. После продолжительного «отпуска» за границей он возвращается в свой родной город в Калабрии с новой подругой и её дочкой, чьих имён он не помнит. Пока Четто отсутствовал, город накрыла волна законопослушания, и его бизнес оказался под угрозой. После долгих и мучительных размышлений в обществе благосклонных женщин Четто решает любой ценой идти в политику.

Genoa 2001: As the G8 Summit drew to a close and the press and politicians departed, 300 riot police stormed the Diaz School looking for members of the infamous Black Block. They found instead young activists, mostly students, teenagers and journalists from around Europe preparing to bunk down in the school gym. Undeterred, they unleashed a calculated frenzy of violence, beating young and old, male and female indiscriminately. Those seriously injured were rushed to the hospital in ambulances, though soon after they were forced to join those who had been arrested and driven to a detention centre and subjected to further abuse and degradation.

To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

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.

В фильме параллельно развиваются, ни разу не пересекаясь, несколько историй с героями разных поколений и разных сфер деятельности. Общее только одно: все они оказываются подчинены интересам преступного сообщества. Пожилой держатель общака, который выплачивает субсидии родственникам отбывших на отсидку. Два великовозрастных оболтуса, окончательно теряющих голову, когда им удается разворошить тайник с оружием. Тринадцатилетний разносчик продуктов: ему приходится навсегда распрощаться с совестью, наведя бандитов на свою клиентку. Выпускник университета, которого втягивают в бизнес по захоронению токсичных отходов под крышей мафии. Талантливый портной, которого перекупают китайские конкуренты и который чуть не гибнет от мести клана.

Пьетро Паладини - успешный бизнесмен. И у него есть жена и десятилетняя дочь. Но однажды в его жизни случилось два чрезвычайных происшествия...

Пьетро Паладини - успешный бизнесмен. И у него есть жена и десятилетняя дочь. Но однажды в его жизни случилось два чрезвычайных происшествия...

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.

Маттэо и Питероне - друзья-второгодники, заканчивающие колледж. Они мечтают не об учебе, а о девушках и вечеринках, поэтому на уроках попадают в нелепые ситуации. Маттэо знакомится с Маргаритой. Она старше его, у неё много друзей, в том числе бывших партнеров по сексу. Маттэо захлестнула любовь. Но даже самые хорошие отношения может испортить любая мелочь, например пропавший презерватив. Его воображение рисует мучительные картины измены, да и дела в колледже - хуже некуда.