The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

film directed by Francesco Lagi

A criminal known as Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership (Lebanese is followed by his cohorts Freddo and Dandi) take place over twenty-five years, from the 1970's into the '90's, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government. Throughout these years Police Lieutenant Scialoia sticks to the gang's trail, trying both to bring them to justice and to win the heart of Dandi's girlfriend Patrizia

The fiction retraces the Vermicino incident, a famous crime story from 1981 in which a six-year-old boy, Alfredo Rampi, died three days after accidentally falling into an artesian well. The story had a notable impact on the press and on Italian public opinion.

Als verwöhnter Sohn reicher Kaufleute führt der in Assisi lebende Franziskus zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts ein Leben in Luxus. Allgegenwärtiges Leid und Elend sind ihm zunächst fremd. Das ändert sich, als er die Schrecken des Krieges persönlich miterlebt. Im Städtekampf zwischen Perugia und Assisi gerät er in Kriegsgefangenschaft, aus der ihn letztendlich nur der reiche Vater freikaufen kann. Kurz darauf fallen ihm Bibelverse in die Hände und sein Leben beginnt sich zu ändern.

Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust...

A 40-year-old world-famous chef with anger management issues is assigned to run a cooking class at a centre for young people with autism.

Follow brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourishing business that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire.

A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal much: he observes them, takes cue, until his imaginary throw them into another era, in a past where the noise of the sewing machines fills a workplace handled and populated by women, where men have minor and marginal roles and cinema can be told from another point of view: the one of costume. Between loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartbreaking absence and unbreakable bonds, reality and fiction permeate, as well as the lives of the actresses and those of the characters, the competition and the sisterhood, the visible and the invisible.

这是一位年轻的反战激进分子的真实故事。他作为副导演，要拍摄一部关于意大利在伊拉克执行“和平使命”军事行动的电影。尽管带有成见，他还是从他遇到的人身上找到了人性的光辉和兄弟般的深情。但他还没来得及抽完一包烟，就被一次针对兵营的袭击裹挟……

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.