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An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.

Claudio and Marta are a happily married middle-aged couple with a son, Simone, aged twenty. Their peaceful world starts to crumble when Simone suddenly leaves for a yearlong master's course in the USA. Marta reacts badly to the separation and sinks into a depression. However, she forces herself to react, returning to her old job as a photo restorer. The passion that she puts into her work distances her from her husband and they decide to part. Claudio subsequently falls ill with cancer, and, at first, doesn't tell Marta. However, when he has to have an operation, she finds out about it and the couple gradually draws closer once more. Through this ordeal, Claudio and Marta are able to start to live happily together again.

The love story of 2 youths during the '700s. Fabrizio, a boy who was supposed to be a noble and part of Napoleons army, and Clelia a beautiful girl of a important Noble of the high society of Parma in that era. Their love became impossible because of the Presence of other characters and they personal desires

Who killed the director's cat?

Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova races through life with irrepressible energy. Violinist, writer, soldier, spy, gambler, adventurer - it is as a lover that he unbridles the full force of his energy. A charmer and seducer, he, too, is charmed by the beauty of women, seduced by their passion, intrigued by their mystery. For the young Casanova, life may be one dazzling Venetian carnival, but in love there are no masks or disguises: this is where he is at his most genuine, most vulnerable, most naked. The son of an actress, Giacomo Casanova grows up surrounded by the magic and artifice of theater. As the protégé of the French ambassador to the Venetian Republic, he begins his ascent in society - and his conquest of its most beautiful women. Betrayed by his jealous benefactor, Casanova is thrown into prison. Fifteen months later, he escapes and flees to Paris, where he beguiles Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.

1914 : Giacomino "Mino " Rasi is the ten -year - old son of a Milan university mathematics professor . His family is friends with the aristocratic Austrian consul Karl Stolz and his much younger wife Freda . In August 1914 the Rasi family travels to Austria to visit the Stolz family . World War I has already broken out, but the spirit is upbeat and both families spend a happy time . That Italy , a member of the Triple Alliance , has remained neutral at the outbreak of the war causes a slight alteration between Karl and Minos father .

Married for 20 years since the age of 15, Nina's husband suddenly decides to leave her.

Castro was an occupied building in Rome, Italy. For more than ten years it has been a chance of life for many families. More than a year in the making to reveal the everyday life of a community living in extraordinary circumstances.

Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. They prepare to spend a holiday together when Francesca is instructed to shed light on the mysterious death of a girl, Rosa Franceschi, who threw herself from the terrace of her house. Francesca interrogates friends and neighbours of the victim, especially Veronica Marini who, living opposite the victim's apartment, followed the whole story. This is how she discovers her husband's affair with Rosa Franceschi and her involvement in the girl's suicide or murder.

Reconstructs the history of the oldest ghetto of Europe. 2016 will be its Quincentennial. Excellent witnesses, custodians of the memory and of the complex evolution of the Jewish community in Venice, will focus on a theme such as the origins, the relationship between the Jews and the Government of the Serenissima, between Jews of different languages and cultures, the great figures in the history of the ghetto, the permitted trades, the money, the cabala, the food, the Jewish Venetian language, the persecutions and integration. We will tell of the daily life, the atmosphere and places of the Ghetto, and some moments of identity: a Bar Mitzvah, and a funeral. The narrative track will follow the path of discovery of Lorenzo, a teenage Jewish boy from New York. Lorenzo is sent to Venice to learn about the origins of his family, closely related to the history of Ghetto. Lorenzo is guided by his Aunt and two young Venetian cousins who offer him the stimulus to enter more and more into a world unknown to him. Accustomed to a city in continual evolution, which leaves no strong traces of time behind it, Lorenzo remains fascinated by the stratification of the memories and the stories. Stories which, sometimes take form, like revelations evoked by his imagination, thanks to a historical reconstruction realized in animation. The history of the Venice ghetto offers us an opportunity to reflect on the story of an immigration and of a slow integration, an example of the enormous wealth that the exchange of diverse cultures can give us.

1938 - 2018: Eighty years after the Promulgation of the Fascist Racial Laws: an important and unfortunately very topical anniversary. Eighty years ago, Italian population, who had not a tradition of anti-Semitism, was pushed by the fascist propaganda into accepting the persecution of a minority, which had been living in Italy for centuries.

The story of a father who, after losing his son to an overdose, abandons his commercial activities to create a therapeutic community and devote himself to the recovery of drug addicts with the help of a psychiatrist.

Five women arrive in Italy from different countries in search of love, work, freedom.

This documentary film deals with German film making at the end of world war II. Besides plenty of movie scenes from that period it shows interviews with eye-witnesses all of which were and mostly are in the German film business. They all tell about movie-making as well as about surviving in these times.

Lorenza Mazzetta's "genius" resides in her fantastic and profound outlook which she experiences and uses to tell her extraordinary story and to create the many works that derive from this. Adopted as a little girl by the Einstein family, which was to be exterminated by the SS before her eyes, in the early 1950s she went to London in order to forget. She managed to enter the well-known Slade School of Fine Art, having asked to be accepted "Because I'm a genius!" - she didn't know what else to say. She steals a movie camera, becomes a director, and shoots K, a film about the person she feels closest to: Kafka. She establishes Free Cinema and revolutionizes British film together with Lindsay Anderson, Kael Reisz, and Tony Richardson. For Together, her second film, one about two deaf and dumb laborers in a London being bombed by the Germans, she wins an award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Having returned to Italy, she finds Paola, her twin sister. She remembers a tragedy that she had repressed, and so writes Il cielo cade, the funny yet tragic diary of a little girl who talks about fascism, the war, and what happened to her. In the film we meet this woman, who still exhibits all the freedom of childhood, through her memories, animations of her paintings, life today, her friends, and the witnesses to her story: Bernardo Bertolucci, Malcolm McDowell, and David Grieco.

At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm. The gruff uncle sets David to work, and softens as the youth proves himself. When David is injured, Patrizia, who works at a nearby factory, drives him to hospital. There he meets the outgoing Alem, a Bosnian who's always on the hustle. Once healed, he continues these relationships, but all three (with his uncle, with Patrizia, and with Alem) change irrevocably when drugs enter the picture. Who is Patrizia's friend with the black Mercedes? What will David do when he finds out?