Rosa Di Brigida

Dünyanın çeşitli yerlerinde sebebi açıklanamayan felaketler meydana gelmesi üzerine General Thomas Purcell, jeofizikçi Dr. Josh Keyes ile Fransız nükleer fizikçi Dr. Serge Leveque'i acilen Washington'a çağırarak bu trajedilerin arkasındaki sırrı çözmekte gecikmez. Ortada bir savaş tehdidinden çok daha kötü bir gelişme vardır: Dünyanın merkezindeki çekirdeğin dönüşü durmuştur. Güneşten gelen ölümcül radyasyon etkisine karşı koruyucu kalkan işlevini gören elektromanyetik alanın bozulması sonuçlarının korkunç olacağı açıktır. Bu problemin hemen çözülmemesi halinde uçaklar yere çakılacak, elektronik araçların devreden çıkmasıyla eşi görülmedik bir kargaşa yaşanacaktır. Atmosferdeki değişimler sonucunda yüzlerce şimşeğin aynı anda çakmasıyla "süper fırtınalar" oluşacak; hepsinden öldürücü olanı ise, mikrodalga radrasyon etkisiyle dünyamızın kavrularak yanması olacaktır...

Romantik Roma şehrinde, uyandığında ünlü olduğunu öğrenen bir işçinin, öğrenci olarak yaşadığı sokağa geri dönen bir mimarın, balayı tatilindeki genç bir çiftin ve yetenekli şarkıcıları keşfetme yeteneğine sahip ama hayatta hayal kırıklığına uğramış bir opera yönetmeninin iç içe geçmiş hikâyeleri yer alıyor.

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

Gigi ve Giancarlo'nun babaları Romano ve anneleri Rosa, Apulia’daki evlerini terk edip Almanya’ya taşınmaya karar verirler. Duisburg’un gelişmekte olan tekdüze endüstriyel kesiminde mahallenin ilk pizza dükkanını açarlar. Romano, restorant sahibi rolüne kolayca alışır fakat Rosa ülkesini özlemektedir ve özlemi yıllar geçmesine rağmen dinmek bilmez. Oğulları Gigi ve Giancarlo ise içine girdikleri yeni sosyal ortamda buldukları özgürlüğün tadını çıkarırlar. İkisi de, aynı kadına aşık olunca araları açılır ve Gigi annesiyle Solino’ya dönmeye karar verir.

Isotta, a poor and overweight girl, works as a seamstress in a popular district of Naples. She spends her time dreaming to escape from the harsh reality.

Sofia and Valerio, both with divided families, learn to know each other during a sultry Neapolitan summer. They are two kids still subjected to their parents' mood swings and generational confusion. While waiting for the holidays and the entrance into a more adult age, they will learn to look at adults with detachment.

A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.

The exploitation of young men as prostitutes in the district around the Roman coliseum is the focus of Simon Bischoff's documentary and fiction piece that spares no close-up view of male anatomy. This latter trait reveals just as much about the tenor of this film as it does about the body. Several years earlier, Bischoff met the main 17-year-old protagonist here, "Er Moretto," when he was just a 13-year-old runaway. The intervening years show how he changed into a streetwise vendor of sex, and Bischoff also details how the 17-year-old is picked up by a middle-aged man to be his companion. Fiction segments do not fare as well as the documentary aspects of this work, which in the end, seems at least ambiguous, if not questionable, in its intent.

The young Carabiniere Gatta is sent to barracks in the Naples area. It's 1946 and the war is still hanging in the air even if the small community doesn't seem to have been affected that much by it. Even so, certain suspicions take root in the brigadier's mind. The hotel in the town was the setting for unexplained deaths and crimes that had been covered up. Gatta decides to investigate. Fragments begin to emerge, killers and their victims take shape and speak to each other from different times. There's the hotel owner, a grief-striken mother, a weak son and long-suffering sister, an orphan and two woman who were violently killed. Pain, indifference and shame cast a shadow over everything.

The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre Pio's potential canonization. We watch local people venerate the humble Capuchin monk, we see petty jealousies within the Church almost bring him down, and we experience his decision to build a Home for the Relief of Suffering, a labor of love begun just after World War II. Emilia and her husband Dr. Sanguineti work tirelessly beside the humble but sensible Pio.