Ο πατριάρχης μιας πολυπληθούς οικογένειας που ζει σε παραγκούπολη προσπαθεί με κάθε τρόπο να επιβιώσει από τα υπόλοιπα μέλη της, τα οποία θέλουν να τον ξεκάνουν.

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…

In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.

Κάπου στην Ιταλία του 1943, ο βασικός ήρωας είναι ο κυνικός και χυδαίος Μπραντόνε, ένας μικροαπατεώνας του δρόμου, που βγάζει τα προς το ζην από το μαύρο εμπόριο. Ο συνταγματάρχης Μίλερ αποφασίζει να τον ρίξει κατάσκοπο στις φυλακές του Μιλάνου και έρχεται σε συνεννόηση μαζί του, ώστε να υποδυθεί την προσωπικότητα του στρατηγού Ντέλα Ρόβερε. Αυτός δέχεται να κλειστεί σε φυλακή και από εκεί να αποσπά τα μυστικά των αντιστασιακών Ιταλών πατριωτών. Μπαίνει στη φυλακή με το ψευδώνυμο "στρατηγός Ντέλα-Ρόβερε", με αποστολή να συναντήσει τους ιταλούς παρτιζάνους και να τους ξεσκεπάσει. Όμως, ο "στρατηγός" γίνεται σιγά-σιγά φίλος με πολλούς και ο χαρακτήρας του μετασχηματίζεται σε βαθμό που ούτε ο ίδιος περίμενε. Ακολουθούν απρόσμενες ανατροπές…

Στον βιομηχανικό βορά της Ιταλίας ζει ο Τζιοβάνι, ένας εξειδικευμένος εργάτης φάμπρικας. Το αφεντικό θα του προτείνει προαγωγή, αρκεί να πάει στη Σικελία για 18 μήνες, ώστε να βοηθήσει σε ένα νέο παράρτημα. Η απουσία του θα κάνει κακό στη σχέση του με την αρραβωνιαστικιά του, Λιλιάνα, μια σχέση που κινείται μέσα σε κάποιες μονάχα συναντήσεις. Αυτήν, όμως, έχει συνέχεια στο νου του ο Τζιοβάνι, κατά τη μοναχική του ζωή στη Σικελία. Η απόσταση, βέβαια, μονάχα κακό μπορεί να κάνει.

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music, between Jeno and Sophie.

There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and literally thousands of Qing troops - complete with betrayals, intrigues, and such novel fighting machines as 108 wooden robots. The conflicts grow in complexity, intensity and even suspense as monks struggle to stay alive in the face of overwhelming odds.

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Η πολυπράγμων σκηνοθέτις αντανακλά θέματα όπως η ζωή και ο θάνατος, ξεκινώντας από προσωπικές της εμπειρίες, σημαδεμένη από τον πρόσφατο χαμό της μητέρας της και του συζύγου της, του διάσημου μουσικού Λου Ριντ, αλλά και του αγαπημένου της σκύλου. Πλάι σε αυτά, κοιτάει σε οικογενειακές αναμνήσεις, την παρακολούθηση και τη βουδιστική διδασκαλία.

A humpback whale is beached on a remote shore. During the fight to save its life, we will discover the story of these extraordinary creatures, denizens of the world's oceans. Inspired by Heathcote William's bestselling book, WHALE NATION takes us on a journey of discovery into the unexplored territories and barely known society of whales, with their remarkable abilities and incredibly rich and complex social lives.

On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini's death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of his personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as his drawings and film clips.

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.

How to Be a Billionaire meets some of the world's wealthiest and most successful individuals, finding out about their lives, their lifestyle, their dreams for the future and how they have achieved their success.