Saša Vulićević

San Francisco’lu bir yazar olan Frances Mayes’in (Diane Lane) mükemmel gibi görünen hayatı ani bir olayla sarsılır. Verdiği bir partide, kitabını eleştirdiği için ondan hoşlanmayan bir başka yazar kocasının onu aldattığını söyler. Boşanma süreci, Frances’i derinden etkiler ve artık yazı yazamaz hale gelir. Hatta, en yakın arkadaşı olan Patti bile, Frances’in bir daha artık kendini toparlayamayacağını düşünmektedir.

Genç bir adam olan Giorgio, arkadaşıyla birlikte Roma metrosuna biner ve tuvaletten yeni çıkmış, elbisesi yanlışlıkla iç çamaşırının içine girmiş bir kadını fark ederler. Ona bu talihsiz durumu anlatırlar ve ardından gençlerden biri trene binerken, arkadaşı platformda kalır; genç adam güzel kadına tamamen hayran kalmıştır. İkisi de son treni beklerken karşı platformlarda beklemektedirler. Genç adam ilk görüşte aşkını ilan eder ve ona hayatında gördüğü en güzel kadın olduğunu söyler. Kadın da bundan etkilenir ve genç adamın asla unutamayacağı bir şekilde karşılık verir.

Guido, an acclaimed writer, leads a seemingly perfect life with his wife and daughter, but his restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor who's hiding a secret.

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.

The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal armies, commanded by Giovanni de'Medici, try to chase them in the midst of a harsh winter. Nevertheless, the Imperial armies manage to cross the rivers along their march and get cannons thanks to the maneuvers of its Lords. In a skirmish, Giovanni de'Medici is wounded in the leg by a falconet shot. The attempts to cure him fail and he dies. The Imperial armies assault Rome. The film is beautifully but unassumingly set, and shows the hard conditions in which war is waged and its lack of glory. It ends straightforwardly with the declaration made after the death of Giovanni de'Medici by the commanders of the armies in Europe of not using again fire weapons because of their cruelty.

Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite to rip off a wealthy businessman in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

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.

Five untitled episodes: a businessman visits prostitutes before returning to his wife; an extra falls asleep at the cinema; a farmhand faces an Eastern European bully; a woman foresees the death of her lover; a small-time criminal feels the eyes of the mafia on him.

Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.