Ottavia Piccolo

Filmde, 1860’ların İtalyası’nın hızla değişen toplumsal yapısına uyum sağlamaya çalışan yaşlı bir prensi canlandıran Burt Lancaster, statüsünü ve yaşam tarzını sağlama alma çabasıyla yeğeni Tancredi’nin (Alain Delon) zengin bir tüccarın kızı olan Angela’yla (Claudia Cardinale) evliliğini ayarlar; ve filmin final bölümünü oluşturan neredeyse bir saate yakın balo sahnesi boyunca, hem ait olduğu toplumsal sınıf hem de kendi geçmişiyle bugünü üzerine derin düşüncelere dalar. Birey ve toplum arasındaki etkileşimi büyüleyici ve görkemli bir dille anlatan böyle bir filmi, ancak Visconti gibi aristokrat kökenli bir Marksist yönetebilirdi. (Lancaster, rolünü Visconti’nin karakterinden yola çıkarak canlandırdığını söylemiştir). Aristokratların artık gücün yeni zenginlerin eline geçtiğini kabullendikleri balo sahnesi, haklı olarak sinema tarihinin en ustaca çekilmiş sahnelerinden biri olarak kabul edilir.

Yeni gelen bir vali, eyaletinin yozlaşmış Albay Huerta'nın kontrolü altında olduğunu fark eder. Huerta'nın suikasta uğramasını önlemek için zayıf ve kararsız gibi davranır, böylece Huerta kendisinin hiçbir tehdit oluşturmadığına inanacaktır. Ancak gizlice Zorro kılığına girer ve Huerta ve askerlerine karşı adalet mücadelesinde keşiş Francisco ve güzel aristokrat Hortensia'ya katılır.

Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.

Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who'll win her heart?

Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.

The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.

Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancée. The search leads him to meet so many young, lovely women – that when he finally encounters his fiancée, he's no longer sure he loves her.

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.

Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.

An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to his childhood and the time he believed his mother had a relationship with the teacher.

Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts.

A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.

The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.

Sophie investigates the death of her sister who disappeared while taking pictures in the mountains with Bastien, a rather taciturn guide accused of being a dangerous criminal.

Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.

A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.

After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.

The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...

Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper.

During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of many of the Jews sent to concentration camps.

A young elementary school teacher falls in love with a Venetian woman who is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.

An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is helped by a small time smuggler (Toffolo).

Alessandro and Anna, just over the age of 18, meet by chance during an Interrail trip to Spain. It is a hot summer in the late 1990s, and the two immediately fall in love. Their lives, however, are much more complicated than the fate that brought them together, and soon the two are forced to separate. Over the years they remain linked by an intense correspondence, never able to muster the courage to see each other. However, 20 years after their first meeting and now adults, they meet again in Bologna. Their feeling, which has never faded over time, will have to clash with the interferences of a reality more complex than the one they had created only through words.

Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.

Miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

Julien Mauriès, the youngest of a perfumer's family was forced to go into exile after having an unfortunate experience in the estate business. He spent 20 years in Venezuela and made fortune in the perfume business. Now, Julien has decided to come back in France in order to start again and to cleanse his honour.

A RAI miniseries, based on the novel by Italo Svevo.

Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Trentino region, this Italian-language drama follows the winemaking Masci family.

Tales of knights and princesses, wizards and sorceresses. Featuring an invisibility ring, a hippogriff, and a trip to the moon. Based on a sixteenth-century Italian chivalric poem by Ludovico Ariosto.

A four-part Italian RAI television adaptation that brings to life Fyodor Dostoevsky's three "ministerial novels": The Double, Notes from Underground, and A Nasty Story. The series delivers a psychological and social portrait of low-ranking state officials caught in their own deep inner turmoil, social alienation, and moral decay.