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).

En dag faller piken Sheeta ned fra himmelen. Rundt halsen bærer hun en magisk krystall som har vært i familien i flere generasjoner. Denne magiske krystallen er både pirater og hæren ute etter, fordi den viser vei til Laputa, himmelslottet oppe i skyene. Fra himmelen faller hun i armene til guttungen Pazu og sammen danner de et unikt vennskap og drar på en reise for å finne den siste svevende byen som er igjen etter menneskenes ødeleggelser.

Jiro ønsker å fly, men han er nærsynt og må derfor oppgi drømmen om å bli pilot. Han bestemmer seg i stedet for å bli flykonstruktør. Inspirert av den italienske flydesigneren Caproni, setter han alt inn på å lage flygende kunstverk. I 1927 får han jobb på en av Japans ledende flyfabrikker og begynner å utvikle det som skulle bli jagerflyet Zero, brukt av japanerne under andre verdenskrig. Parallelt fortelles en kjærlighetshistorie. Jiro treffer vakre Nahoko under ekstreme forhold: De møtes på et tog som sporer av under det store jordskjelvet i 1923. Begge overlever, men forsvinner fra hverandre i de harde årene med depresjon og epidemier som følger i jordskjelvets kjølvann. Skjebnen fører dem sammen igjen, men lidenskapen settes på prøve.

Det som skulle være en fredelig protest, ble til et voldsomt sammenstøt med politiet. Det som fulgte var en av de mest beryktede rettssakene i historien.

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.

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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 depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.

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.

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…

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

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.

Superpolitimann Frank Debrin er på farten igjen. Han er i hvert fall super når det gjelder å dumme seg ut. Det får han anledning til i fullt monn siden han nå opererer i Washington DC, blant presidenter og annet fintfolk. Han blir denne gangen innvolvert i en sak der skumle mennesker bytter ut presidentens miljøpolitiske rådgiver. Hvem vil vel ha en miljøvernforkjemper i en slik stilling? Mye bedre da og erstatte ham med en dobbeltgjenger som vil at folk skal kjøre mere bil, bygge nye kjernekraftverk og fyre med mere kull. Uheldigvis for de slu forbryterne er Jane Spencer - Debrins tapte kjæreste - PR-sjef for den kidnappede miljømann. Og dermed blir til alt hell og all ulykke Frank satt på saken.

Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s.

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

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”.

The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.

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.