Pietro Bontempo

In the past few days Rome has been the scene of a singular event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam whose origin and composition is unknown. No one can imagine that whoever breathes in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what he/she represses, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.

Cornelia, a famous environmental influencer, travels around the city during the night looking for a place to connect on live TV where, due to a heated argument with the host, she leaves her telephone number as a provocation. The move turns out to be disastrous: he receives countless threatening calls and insults from the haters. In the middle of the night, he uncovers dark secrets about his family, questioning his life and relationships. The tension reaches a climax when her personal difficulties are reflected in a deep crisis with her daughter, leading her to face the price of fame and the painful truths that come with it.

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2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"

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From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real.

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

The librarian of the university Xenia schedules a S&M blind date with the masochist Ghost to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires. They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat. Xenia cleans her evidences and leaves the place, but Ghost's friend Silver investigates the murder of Ghost and finds her files in a CD.

When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.

Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?

Italian thriller

Micky Laus is an important and dishonest entrepreneur in the watermelon business. He also owns a commercial TV station, Melonen TV, and a soccer team, AC Topolonia. He also leads the political party he founded, Forza Topolonia. Laus is kidnapped by a terrorist organization and taken to a popular prison where he will have to wait for the verdict on his fate, which will come from the people of the web.

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.

A Donatello Award nominated short drama that illustrates a man's addiction to reading - and of the steps taken by some in society to limit this "habit".

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A screening of the 30 year old Hands Over The City at the School of Architecture in Naples is the occasion for a debate among youth, historians, politicos, industrialists, environmentalists.

In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?

Adelmo, a thirtyish youth, still lives with his mother in a little mountain village and spends most of his time riding his bike. One day he is run over by Paola, a recently widowed girl, who is the new doctor in town.