After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
This documentary captures the extraordinary twists and turns in the journeys of Rubik's Cube-solving champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs.
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.
An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.
Una antiga presó del segle XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccessible i indeterminada del territori italià, està sent abandonada. Per problemes burocràtics, els trasllats estan bloquejats, i queden al voltant d'una dotzena de presos, amb pocs agents, tot esperant noves destinacions. En aquesta atmosfera estranya, a poc a poc, les regles semblen tenir cada cop menys sentit, els protocols es relaxen i s'entreveuen noves formes de relació entre els homes que hi queden.
Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
Lena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law in Italy. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matters. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only thinking about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
Daniele Lucheti va ser l'encarregat d'inaugurar el Festival de Venècia de 2020 amb aquest melodrama familiar que respira al ritme de la Itàlia dels 80. Una devastadora crònica d'un divorci narrada a través de dues generacions que ha estat definida com una versió de la novel·la "Història d'un Matrimoni", d'Elena Ferrante. Nàpols, principis dels 80. L'Aldo i la Vanda estan a punt de separar-se després que ell confessi que té una aventura. Els seus dos fills petits es debaten entre els seus pares sumits en un remolí de ressentiment. Però els llaços que uneixen a les persones no desapareixen, ni tan sols quan ja no hi ha amor. 30 anys després, L'Aldo i la Vanda segueixen casats.
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.
A 27-year-old suburban slacker entertains daily conversations bordering on paradoxical with his conscience, which manifests itself in the form of a human-sized armadillo. Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Zerocalcare.
While he is speaking on the phone with a member of his staff, Filippo has a severe headache and faints. As soon as he regains consciousness, he calls his friend Pippo for help and asks him to invite the group of old friends to join, too. Little by little the four friends remind him of happy moments shared in the past and Filippo gradually manages to remember with their help….But something unhappy comes back to their mind….
El cadàver d'un conegut productor de cinema apareix al riu Tíber, i els principals sospitosos de la mort són tres aspirants a guionistes. Al llarg d'una nit a comissaria, realitzen un viatge tumultuós, afectiu i irònic pels carrers de Roma, en una època en la qual l'era gloriosa del gran cinema italià travessa els seus últims dies.
Una famosa escriptora de terror troba la inspiració per al seu següent llibre després que ella i el seu marit acullin a una jove parella.
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
Tommaso has just left his first wife but he will meet a new person who will change everything in his life.