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- In this gruesome suspense film, strangers traveling in southern Italy become stranded in the woods, where they must fight desperately to get out alive.
- When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
- A rebellious teenager grows up to become one of Milan's most ambitious criminals during the golden years of the 'ndrangheta' Mafia in the 1980s.
- The poor Italian peasant boy Francesco already has visions of Jesus and Mary as a child, but the Devil visits him too. Francesco is quite certain that he will become a priest. After entering the Capuchin Order it becomes clear that Padre Pio (his new name) has powers that cannot be explained rationally: he heals the sick and knows the names, problems, and future of complete strangers. His prophesies that the then unknown young Karol Wojtyla will become Pope one day. Padre Pio's charity and ecstatic prayers make a great impression on the people. In 1918 the Wounds of Christ appear on his hands and feet - Padre Pio carries the stigmata. His followers multiply, and the cult that grows up around him makes his holy order and the Vatican uneasy. Many within the church consider him to be a hysteric or a trickster, since he only showed his wounds the one time when they first appeared. Padre Pio suffers reprisals and is no longer allowed to carry out his role as a priest. The ordinary people, however, continue to believe in him and his miracles. Just before his death in 1968 there is a reconciliation with the grand Visitor of the Vatican, who recognizes him as a Saint.
- Illicit passions pervade an Italian town, where men gather nightly for the cynical "game of the law."
- Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
- The forbidden love between Andrea, the reluctant heir of the Malatesta family, and Marilena, the beautiful wife of the Camporeale boss, rekindles an old feud between two rival families. The fatal passion brings the clans back into war, in an ancient land, not so different from the far west, where only blood can wash out blood, following the ruthless codes of the local mafia. But Marilena, now cast out by the Camporeale and prisoner of the Malatesta, contended and reviled, with the strength only a wounded mother ripped away from her children can have, will oppose to a destiny which seems already written.
- Gunnar Lindmark is a professor of psychology, while his wife Meret find here a reminiscent of an old extramarital love, ceased because of her lover's death. This crisis triggers jealousy of the professor who kills the Italian guy.
- During Cyprus' war of independence against Britain, Juno Kozani (Susan Strasberg), an American archeology student visiting Cyprus, is caught between the two warring sides.
- A mechanic turns a loan request denial from his bank into a robbery with the help of two of his friends, leading to a crazy escape with the public opinion in their favor.
- In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?
- 1860, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. While Garibaldi's troops are invading this lawless territory, four female bandits nicknamed the "Drudes" are looking for their own personal revenge.
- The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
- It starts as a studio theatre: a good-natured, bit pedantic stationmaster performs his job at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. Eventually a beautiful, obviously very rich young woman enters the station and wants to buy a ticket. She has to wait, they start talking, get closer - high-society meets petty bourgeois. Then suddenly the mood turns around: the woman's fiance appears and tries to prevent the girl from leaving with increasing violence. The stationmaster interferes and the film becomes a thriller about a fight to the death.
- A prosecutor attempts to fight organized crime in Calabria - Italy by pressuring familial ties among associates.
- The marital problems of an American couple come to a head while visiting southern Italy with their impressionable young son.
- The carpenter Sergio and the former singer Sabrina are a pair of lovers who are very much in love but unable to leave their companions because of the economic hardships in which they live. Everything seems to change when Sergio's colleagues take revenge for his jokes, making him believe that he won 3 million euros in the lottery. Convinced that he has become rich, Sergio decides to abandon his old life bringing with him not only Sabrina, but also their relatives. When Sergio and Sabrina discover that there is no winnings, they decide not to reveal it to anyone and drag their families on a journey from the Roman outskirts to Puglia. But the truth always comes to the surface and the tensions between such different characters are destined to explode.
- The story is divided into seven parts focused on holiday, sun and sea.
- A story of a film-making crew traveling in Italy.
- Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.
- Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
- A stage actor on the eve of an important audition receives a call which informs him of the existence of the daughter he didn't know to have. The girl, Adele, will embark him on an unforgettable journey.
- In un piccolo paese della Puglia (l'immaginaria "San Nicola a mare" - in realtà Vieste -) sconvolto dalla guerra, vive Sciusciù, un cinquantenne muto e senza tetto con l'anima e la mente di un bambino. Una notte Sciusciù è testimone dell'atterraggio di tre paracadutisti delle forze alleate: decide subito di aiutarli e di condurli al casolare di Annamaria, un'amica di cui si fida, riuscendo a convincerla ad offrirgli protezione.
- A small time bandit climbs the mob's hierarchies up to the top but succumbs to his unlimited ambitions's madness.
- Orlando is a translator working from home for a film festival, traducing old Latin American movies from Spanish to Italian, and he's also an influencer. He lives locked in his house, with his housemate Amad, whom he's always in conflict with, and who's real identity will be an unexpected surprise. Marina, a food delivery girl who regularly visits Orlando, will be the only one able to help him face the outdoors.
- "In the sign of the Angel" is a documentary film but it's mainly a message for the soul, an initiatory journey from Cornwall to Puglia, on the millenary route of the Angel's path, the most important sacred line in the World. This film reinterprets the historical memory of the cult of St. Michael the Archangel in Europe, made of spirituality, history, literature and art, so that his message can go straight to the heart. For the first time and in one work, all the European locations of San Michele ley lines: Monte Sant'Angelo (Puglia), San Michele (Piemonte), Le Mont Saint Michel (Normandy), St Michael's Mount (Cornwall). The film guides the audience to reflection, for a deeper collective consciousness. Through information and precious interviews, it shows a different vision of reality, based on the teaching of celestial messengers, which will help people express a new humanity, in this great purification taking place on planet Earth. The flying images, made with drones, lift us from the ground to the sky, as in the process of spiritualization of matter along the path of this line of light, through powerful energy sites where we can soar and accomplish that human and spiritual journey, necessary to recover our brightest dimension.
- Situated in the southern part of Italy, this picturesque seaport town is especially interesting to tourists. After witnessing several charming bird's-eye views of the town, we are shown many scenes of typical native life and customs.
- The confrontation between a local boss and one of his workers.
- Paolo is a 22-year-old boy and experiences a constant sense of inadequacy and ineptitude, due to his complex relationship with his mother, unaware of his homosexuality.
- Eugenio has Down syndrome, works as a gardener at a country house, and despite his condition he is full of illusion and tries to help those in need, such as Patrizia, a young woman who has had a car accident.
- The 'type1' are artificially made human beings created through ectogenesis and DNA modification, forced to run and hide after being declared illegal. Years after their escape, an old pub might hide one of them.
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- Blondie is a 13 years old girl. She is a unruly nature-loving kid, constantly running away from something, mainly her family and the school duties. One morning on her way to classes she finds a beautiful toad which she releases in the classroom, saving her mate Marco form an embarrassing situation. She will find her mom by the lake to realize their are more close and similar than what they thought.
- South of Italy. A small town in Apulia has to deal with immigrants from all over the world.
- Those who seek political asylum in Italy fear for their very survival. They are forced to wait for several years, are forbidden to work and receive no assistance from the State. They are not provided with lodging, food or information. The refugees set up communes, building shelters, squatting derelict buildings near to centers of agricultural employment and frequently move around according to the harvest season. They survive thanks to their network of solidarity, voluntary organizations and black market work. Starting in Rome where a vast community has squatted the old state railway warehouses next to Tiburtina station, the film traces stopovers in the journey of a nomadic population of asylum seekers who, crossing the Italian peninsula, must head for the centers of seasonal harvesting in order to survive. A geographical exploration of the exile of heroes, deserters and refugees from the wars in post-colonial Africa: the new migrants of Europe.