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- A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
- The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
- Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty.
- While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
- Immersive and innovative exploration of planet Earth through eyes of two human beings.
- A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
- A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
- Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half. Cesare and Lucrezia are furious with her demands, since they're incapable of meeting them. Marcello, on the other hand, marries a dangerous killer called Marina. Marina gets pregnant right away but unfortunately has a miscarriage. She discovers that there's a clinic in Germany that specializes in embryo transplants for sterile women. She convinces her twin sister Angela to take her place while she flies to Germany to have the operation. But Cesare finds out about her plan and causes an explosion on the airplane Marina is travelling on. So Angela goes to Germany to have the transplant that Marina was scheduled for.
- Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner's father.
- Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.
- Annabella marries Soranzo, when she is pregnant by her brother Giovanni. Destiny, and jealousies will expose her past, and Soranzo broods revenge. But he is not alone in that - and death will unite all.
- Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the death of his mother. Years later, he is forced to relive his traumatic past and compassionate doctor Elisa could help him open up and confront his childhood wounds.
- A young female biochemist travels to a castle seeking employment as a researcher by a wealthy baron, only to be sucked into a web of violence and intrigue.
- As strikes upset Italy, the Califfa's husband is killed and she becomes a passionate militant of the strikers. She opposes the factory manager Doverdo who used to be himself a worker.
- A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
- Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.
- A frustrated musician makes a career out of his wife's beautiful body.
- Four female convicts escape from prison and take a bus full of young female athletes hostage, and take refuge in a judge's house. Soon enough, the police surrounds the place, but the escapees are not giving up without a fight.
- The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
- An Italian businessman decides whether to pay a ransom for his abducted son or not.
- It narrates the cases that have to face the scientific police team captained by Riccardo Venturi.
- A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
- Virna Lisi is at her peak using her womanly wiles to seduce Terry-Thomas (in multiple roles) to aid her debt-ridden grandmother, Dame Margaret Rutherford.
- Federico is married to Giovanna, a rich and attractive woman who has guaranteed him an excellent social position. His father Giuseppe, on the other hand, was an anti-fascist and works as a craftsman.
- Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.
- The knight Orlando falls for the fickle princess Angelica. She spurns him. He goes mad, pursues her, visits the moon to recaptures his lost wits, and loses her to a sexy servant boy.
- Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
- A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.
- The director interviews five people with different backgrounds about love and sex.
- Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.
- Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
- Four different stories about italian football team's supporter.
- Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.
- The life of a high-society art curator in Turin ends both in a professional and personal downward spiral when she discovers that her fiancé has suddenly and inexplicably turned into an octopus.
- The true story of seven Italian brothers, farmers and Catholic, who became Communist and fought for justice and freedom against Fascism. Shot in December 1943 in Reggio Emilia, they are the first and most famous heroes in the Italian "Resistenza" (resistance against German Fascism).
- Margot is back in Parma, her hometown. She's coming back to seek revenge. Indeed, she was raped by several notables of the city when she was younger.
- Celebrity chef, Keith Floyd, once again travels across a country exploring its food and indeed, drink.
- Anna, modern woman living in 2017, is pulled deep into a world of the occult, one in which the past and present collide and Anna discovers a supernatural link between herself and a seemingly identical girl who died in 1817.
- A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
- A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
- In 2017 Anna continues to be persecuted by her look-a-like dead two hundred years before. In 1818 investigations into the death of Luigi Bacchi and the infanticide Emma Rigoni are assigned to a new detective.
- October 16, 1817: a farmer discovers the corpse of Luigia Bacchi, the woman missing a few days before. At the cemetery, the night before, it was stolen the dead body of Victoria Clementi, the suicidal girl alleged murderer of Luigia Bacchi. The investigations are closed hastily. The Inspector Augusto Donati begins a personal investigation that led him to reconnect these two deaths with an infanticide committed few months earlier. Meanwhile,on July 23, 2017, Anna Persico, perfectly lookalike Vittoria Clementi, continues to be haunted by her doppelganger. Police investigates on the disappearance of Angela, the best friend of Anna, and on the kidnapping of Chiara Ferrari, a girl missing for months, found alive and exactly identical to Luigia Bacchi.
- Alan and Thomas are bored by their lives. One is a geologist, but works at a university, where the director refuses to finance his once-in-a-lifetime Alaska mission. The other directs a TV talk-show that's about to be canceled. They both need a change. They had a dream in common, and their lives will bump one into each other. Dreaming Alaska is a story about dreams put away in a drawer too many times, but those dreams are what defines one's personality, just for having tried to pursue them. A film about love... freedom... friendship... LIFE. Maybe your Alaska is waiting just around the corner. Stop dreaming, start living!
- With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Verdi Festival in Parma, demonstrating what magic those two can do together with an all new approach to Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, staged and edited by himself and his wife, Saskia Boddeke. The opera's libretto is based on Friedrich Schiller's 'The Maid of Orleans'. It tells the story of the French national hero Jeanne d'Arc, who defends her country against the English troops during the Hundred Years' War. Constantly torn between her humble roots, her love for King Charles VII and her heavenly task to fight for France, she gains eternal glory by giving her life in the final, victorious battle against England.