Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Vi befinder os i teatret i Rebibbiafængslet i Rom. En forestilling af Shakespeares ”Julius Caesar” er lige sluttet med stort bifald. Lyset emmer ud, og skuespillerne bliver igen til fangere, imens de føres tilbage til deres celler. Seks måneder tidligere snakker fængselsdirektøren og teaterinstruktøren med fangerne om et nyt projekt – opsættelsen af Julius Caesar i fængslet. Første skridt er castningen, næste skridt at udforske teksten. Shakespeares universale sprog kan hjælpe de indsatte med at identificere sig med karaktererne, men vejen til opførelsen af teaterstykket er lang og fyldt med angst, håb og leg.
The documentary narrates the successes of the Dutch champion Johan Cruyff (three times winner of the Ballon d'Or), which in the seventies was a symbol of the great Dutch national soccer team, and representative of the so-called total soccer, expressed during the two World Finals in Monaco 1974 and Argentina 1978
As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
Italian comedy film in three segments
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
For akademikerparret Erik og Anna begynder det hele som en drøm. Sammen med datteren Freja etablerer de et kollektiv i Eriks store kasse af en villa i Hellerup. Med familien som fortællingens midtpunkt, inviteres vi ind i drømmen om et ægte kollektiv. Vi er med til husmøderne, middagene og festerne. Det er venskab, kærlighed, familie og fællesskab under samme tag, indtil en jordrystende forelskelse sætter fællesskabet og kollektivet på den ultimative prøve. "Kollektivet" er et portræt af en hel generation. Filmen er en kærlighedserklæring til en generation af idealister og drømmere, der for længst er vågnet op til virkeligheden.
Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and, along with Ruben, shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Mens han er på rejse gennem det sydvestlige USA, med sin Jeep CJ Renegade og sit kastanjeføl ved navn Joe Brown, møder Luke Matt, søn af en af hans ven, Moose, som sidder i fængsel. Moose beder Luke om at tage sig af Matt og hjælpe ham med at tage et stykke jord i besiddelse. Så starter deres rejse, fuld af eventyr...
Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed in meditation on sorrow.
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.