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A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.

Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Daughter of a famous architect, Francesca (Emmanuelle Devos) lives in Paris but is coerced into assisting firm partner Massimo during her Turin trip, in this beautifully shot melodrama with subtle yet powerful acting.

Cesare, a former smuggler of illegal aliens, finds the murdered body of his godson Fausto in a remote valley. Considered the prime suspect by the cops, he will be forced out of his isolation to confront the painful truth behind the crime.

Labourer Vincenzo travels from Italy to China in search of a machine with a deficiency that was produced in the now defunct establishment at which Vincenzo worked for years.

Lorenza, an ambitious woman in her 30s, is successful in everything but love. Therefore she has the idea of renting herself a lover.

The film chronicles the melancholy journey of two celebrity look-alikes chasing their dream of la dolce vita in Italy. Romanian Marilyn Monroe impersonator Ileana and Bulgarian Elvis double Nicolaj win a look-alike contest in Bucharest in which the prize is a summer engagement in a nightclub on Italy's Adriatic coast. The two strangers take off together, communicating in the broken Italian they picked up from TV. When a bureaucratic hitch with Ileana's passport cuts them off at the airport, they cross the border illegally by car, travelling through a part of Yugoslavia devastated by war. They accept hospitality at a military outpost, but the suicide of a colonel there casts suspicion on Ileana. Beaten and afraid, they continue their odyssey across the harsh sunless no-man's-land gradually scarring them both and clouding their hopes. They finally reach Italy, but all is not as promised.

A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.

The protagonist is a university law professor, an attractive, intelligent, ironic forty-year-old who has achieved a prominent position socially and professionally. Not surprisingly he is sought after by women. And to a degree he succumbs. But he comes across as a character closed up in himself, locked into his privileged situation, which he uses as a defensive screen between himself and the "vulgarity and absurdity of reality". Towards everyday reality he assumes an attitude of total, superior disdain. Our protagonist lives in an ivory tower he has constructed for himself, and it seems that nothing can break down his defenses. In order to preserve this obstinate individualism, he does not hesitate in repressing his feelings and sacrificing those of others. Thus, without any plausible reason, he breaks off the relationship he has with Silvia, a young woman who is desperately in love with him. But fate intervenes to break down the perfect system of rules he has constructed to protect himself. In the pocket of a young suicide victim - who turns out to be one of his best students - the police find a piece of paper with the his name and telephone on it. From this moment on, nothing will be the same as before. The story turns into a murder mystery, so it is appropriate to stop telling the story here. The point is that the real world, carefully kept at arm's length by our protagonist, accidentally infiltrates his life and then invades it completely, turning it upside down.

A documentary on the life and works of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. It features archival interviews with the actor and also reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues.

Dr. Martinelli is a young psychoanalyst who is treating Dario Campisi, and a surprising truth emerges from the latter's stories during psychoanalytic sessions.

Elia has a talent. He has never missed a penalty. He has a magic foot... Very few people play football like he does. Elia's got a problem, though.

The Wheel of Khadi - The Warp and Weft of India is a history of India through its weaving arts, from Khadi into handlooms and power looms, from Independence into contemporary India.

In a small town in southern Italy, the destinies of two women, who sew in a damp and dilapidated basement for a rough employer, meet by chance. While they both return to hope and love, a fire in the factory will take them by surprise.