Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome to meet with Italian fascist Benito Mussolini.
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
Mătușa Lolotta, care locuiește singură, găsește într-o zi un băiețel care plânge printre frunzele de varză. Îl crește cu dragoste, dar, din păcate, ea moare curând. Micul Toto crește în orfelinat, iar când iese de acolo, drumul lui duce direct către cei săraci care locuiesc în zona Milano. Toto nu renunță însă. Cu bună dispoziție și optimism, el îi convinge curând pe locuitorii colibelor să construiască clădiri mici și îngrijite în locul colibelor. Totul ar merge bine, dar deodată petrolul iese din pământ și imediat există cineva interesat de această „comoară”, dar bineînțeles că nu vrea să o împartă cu oamenii săraci. Dar Toto, băiatul capabil să facă „miracole”, stă alături de oameni...
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Comandantul de poliție Antonio Carotenuto se întoarce în orașul său natal, Sorrento, pentru a se ocupa de brigada locală de pompieri. În casa lui locuiește acum Sofia, o tânără și frumoasă vânzătoare de pește, care refuză să se mute, iar polițistul cedează repede în fața farmecelor ei. Sofia ajunge chiar să accepte propunerea lui de căsătorie, doar ca să-l facă gelos pe bărbatul de care este cu adevărat îndrăgostită, pescarul Nicolino. Dar aventura amoroasă se încheie cu bine pentru toată lumea, iar polițistul se va consola în brațele unei alte frumoase napolitane.
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
In this documentary, director Mariana Otero looks at the daily life of a college in the "difficult" commune of Saint-Denis in the suburbs of Paris.
A man, the heir to an empire, believes that marriage will ruin a man's life. Unfortunately, the only way for him to inherit his father's wealth, is to get married.
A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.
Trei foşti deţinuţi primesc o ofertă tentată care i-ar putea îmbogăţi peste noapte. Însă deoarece au fost deja la închisoare de două ori, cea mai mică infracţiune le-ar aduce, conform codului penal local, condamnarea la închisoare pe viaţă. Însă, din moment ce nu ştiu să facă altceva, sunt obişnuiţi cu infracţionalităţile, cei trei acceptă. Urmează să îl răpească pe fiul unui infractor periculos. Totul degenerează când sunt nevoti să ucidă un intrus neaşteptat. Cum vor reuşi să evite condamnarea la închisoare pe viaţă?
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.