Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.
Jiro drømmer om at blive pilot og flyve igennem skyerne. Men da han er nærsynet, må han i stedet uddanne sig til ingeniør og flydesigner. Under det store jordskælv i 1923 møder han sit livs udkårne, Naoko, som han bliver genforenet og gift med nogle år senere. Naoko har desværre uhelbredelig tuberkulose, og Jiro tilegner arbejdet på sit mesterstykke, det berømte Zero-jagerfly, til sin elskede.
Det, der skulle have været en fredelig demonstration, blev til et voldeligt sammenstød med politiet. Det førte til en af historiens mest berømte retssager.
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
Servitricen Cecilia flygter fra sin triste hverdag ind i biografens mørke. Da hun har set "The Purple Rose of Cairo" fem gange sker det helt fantastiske at filmens helt træder ud af biograflærredet og ned i biografen til sin trofaste fan. Det er kærlighed ved første blik, men ikke helt uden problemer.
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
Guitaristen Adam er et hit på Detroits undergrundsscene. Hans elskede, Eva, bor i Tanger, hvor hun fordyber sig i klassisk litteratur. Begge er vampyrer, der gennem århundreder har udviklet en stærk antipati mod civilisationens udvikling. Da Eva rejser til Detroit for at besøge Adam, får parret uventet selskab af Evas lillesøster, Ava, som er anderledes åben over for nutidens strømninger.
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…
Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
En stilfærdig, beskeden kardinal finder sig pludselig forfremmet til pave i Rom. Han har aldrig før været i rampelyset og bliver slået helt ud, da han konfronteres med menneskeskaren på Peters-pladsen. For at undgå en international krise hidkalder Vatikanet en ikke-religiøs psykiater (Nanni Moretti), til at finde ud af, hvad paven fejler.
Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.
En singlemand hyrer en ung enspænder som rugemor. Efterhånden som de kommer tættere på hinanden, udfordres deres opfattelse af forhold, grænser og kærlighed.
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.
Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.
At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.