Olimpia Carlisi

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

Fellini 'nin kendi yabancılaşmasını perdeye aktardığı, üzerinde tam dört yıl çalıştığı ve büyük bir başarısızlığa uğradığı filmi ' Casanova ', 18.yüzyılın ünlü aşığının yaşamını anlatıyor. Kişiliği hakkında hiçbir ipucuna sahip olamadığımız, sürekli olarak seks yaparken izlediğimiz Casanova'yı Donald Sutherland oynuyor. Birkez daha, belirli bir hikaye anlatmaktan çok hayallerini ve kabuslarını perdeye yansıtmaya karar veren Fellini 'nin filmi, baştan sonra Cincecitta stüdyolarında çekilmiş.

İtalya'da yaşayan Ferzan Özpetek'in ödül rekoru kıran son filmi 'Karşı Pencere', dokuz yıldır evli ve iki çocuklu genç bir kadın olan Giovanna ile kocası Filippo'nun tesadüfen yolda yaşlı bir adamla karşılaşmalarıyla başlıyor. Hafızasını kaybeden yaşlı adamın hayatlarına girmesiyle genç kadının da yaşamı değişmeye başlıyor. Evliliği pek yolunda gitmeyen genç kadının karşı pencereden gözlediği komşusuna duyduğu platonik aşk ve yaşlı adamın geçmişten yansıyan kırık aşk hikayesi ikisin de yaşamlarını etkilemeye başlıyor.Genç kadın için artık yaşamını sorgulama zamanıdır. Acaba karşı pencerelerden bize görünen yaşamlar neden cazip gelir, kendi yaşamlarımızı değiştirmek o kadar zor mudur?Ferzan Özpetek bu dördüncü filmde, hafıza, aşk ve yaşam üzerine duygusal bir sorgulamaya giriyor.

Randevu, oyuncu olma hayaliyle Paris’e taşınan genç Nina’nın (Juliette Binoche), aşk, tutku ve hayal kırıklıklarıyla dolu hikâyesini anlatır. Paris’te Nina, hayatına giren üç farklı erkekle (genç Paul, tiyatro yönetmeni Scrutzler ve karizmatik Quentin) karmaşık ilişkiler yaşar. Hem aşk hem de kariyer arayışında, kendi kimliğini ve hayattaki yerini keşfetmeye çalışır.

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its own volcano, but they are unable to convince the current inhabitants of Island #2 to flee with them to a mainland.

The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's satirical views on man, religion and society.

Othello oyununun provaları sırasında, uzun zamandır sevgilisi olan yönetmen Bruno'nun aslında bir homoseksüel olduğunu fark eden Sofia adeta yıkılır. İntihar etmeyi bile düşünmeye başlayan bu genç kadın oyuncu, o srada duyduğu bir bebek ağlamasıyla kendine gelir ve terk edilmiş bebeği bularak onu evlatlık edinir ve ona Bruno adını verir. Beş yıl sonra Sophia ve oğlu Bruno düzenlenen bir turne ile okullarda çocuk oyunları sergilemeye başlamıştır. Bruno 15 yaşına gelince annesinin kim olduğunu sorgulamaya başlar ve Sofia ile aralarındaki tartışma çok büyüyünce Sofia ona gerçeği anlatır ve birlikte asıl annesini aramaya başlarlar.

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

Two homeless men in Rome are arrested due to a misunderstanding. In jail, they meet a man who has been arrested for eating and running from restaurants. Together they embark on a series of escapades around Tuscany.

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese’s novel «La luna e i falò»: after World War II the emigrant «The Bastard» comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find out that everyone he knew has died, and that the war has deeply changed relationships between people.

Viper is the nickname Leone, a blacksmith in a small Sicilian village, gave to his wife, who ran off with another man. The war ends: the fascists disguise themselves first as communists and then as Christian Democrats, and the poor survive by dancing and drinking. Leone's daughter Rosetta becomes pregnant; Leone dies, and the newborn (named Fortunato) is taken from his very young mother, who ends up in an institution. When Rosetta comes of age, she is reunited with her "witch" mother and her son.

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.

An English hermit has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Christian martyr Artema. This historical drama is intertwined with a modern-day story of a poverty-stricken family, forced by earthquakes during the '70s to move to the country, a devastating blow to the close-knit family. After a 1997 Venice Film Festival screening at 125 minutes, the filmmakers announced their plans to re-edit to a shorter running time. Also known as Moonspins Between Land and Sea.

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.

Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer.