Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved grandfather, embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of life.

Industry insiders like Stan Lee and Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) reflect on the way their colorful creations reflect society at large. They have spread from the pulpy pages of nickel comics to Saturday morning cartoons, the big screen and beyond. They have evolved from simple, All-American heroes to tortured, complicated characters reflecting the dreams, desires and fears of modern society. From Superman to The Sandman, Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked is a fascinating, feature-length look at the evolution of an art form that has proved remarkably adaptable and enduring. Filled with classic images from DC and Marvel Comics as well as extensive interviews with modern masters of the graphic novel like Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns), this documentary, originally aired on the History Channel, goes far beyond the superficial escapist fantasies to probe the forces that shaped the characters who have become legend...

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.

At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.

Um retrato desolador e pitoresco das condições vividas pelos detentos no Manicômio Judiciário de Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Titicut Follies documenta o modo como os internos são tratados pelos funcionários - guardas, assistentes sociais e psiquiatras.

Trevor é um jovem skinhead de 16 anos, violento e sem nenhum respeito a qualquer autoridade. Investe o seu tempo roubando carros e em atos de vandalismo, e esperando sentado em centros de detenção enquanto aguarda o seu futuro destino. Enquanto todos tentam ajudar Trevor a se adaptar às normas da sociedade, ele responde com desprezo e discursos cheios de ódio.

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples

Ambientada na Itália fascista, antes do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a história gira em torno de Tunin, um fazendeiro transformado em anarquista que se hospeda num bordel enquanto se prepara para matar Benito Mussolini. Lá, ele se apaixona por uma das prostitutas.

Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life.

Interpretações satíricas de eventos mundiais e o curioso comportamento humano.

Pasqualino, um homem comum italiano, abandona o exército durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Os Alemães o capturam e mandam para um campo de prisioneiros, onde ele faz qualquer coisa para sobreviver. Em longos flashbacks, vemos ele e sua família de sete irmãs sem atrativos (as sete belezas), seu assassinato acidental do amante de uma irmã, sua confissão e prisão, sua entrada calculada para um asilo, o estupro de uma paciente, e seu trabalho voluntário para ser um soldado e escapar do confinamento. Para desgosto de seu obeso captor alemão, seu caráter fraco e covarde lhe permite sobreviver à guerra e voltar para Nápoles, onde ele tem um plano para sobreviver a próxima catástrofe mundial. A defesa da honra, um forte valor na sociedade napolitana, e seus efeitos sobre a vida do homem comum Pasquale Frafuso.

Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing.

Um magnata da indústria farmacêutica, Anthony "Tony" Leighton (Bruce Greenwood), é casado com a bela e extremamente arrogante Amber (Madonna). Tony alugou uma embarcação para, junto com a mulher e alguns amigos, fazerem um cruzeiro da Grécia até a Itália. Porém nada faz Amber feliz, com ela implicando especialmente com Giuseppe Esposito (Adriano Giannini), um pescador que trabalha no barco. Um dia Amber descobre que o seu marido e a maioria dos seus convidados foram de bote a um passeio nas cavernas das ilhas. Ela fica irritada e ordena que Peppe desça outro bote, apesar dele avisá-la que não é uma boa ideia, por causa das correntes. O temor de Peppe logo se concretiza, pois o motor do bote avaria. Para piorar as coisas, Peppe e Amber lutam pelo sinalizador e acabam por furar o bote.

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

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?

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.