Rosa Di Brigida

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.

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.

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.

Pour des raisons inconnues, le noyau interne de la Terre a cessé de tourner sur lui-même. Le champ magnétique de la planète s'effondre, provoquant sous des latitudes diverses une dramatique et spectaculaire série d'accidents. Face à cette catastrophe sans précédent, le gouvernement américain convoque le géophysicien Josh Keyes, une poignée de savants de réputation internationale et un tandem d'astronautes, la major Rebecca Childs et le commandant Iverson. Leur objectif : lancer dans les profondeurs du manteau terrestre une capsule habitée, et provoquer des explosions nucléaires en chaîne pour réactiver le noyau et ainsi sauver le monde d'une destruction imminente.

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.

La Mère, Rosa, le père, Romano, le frère cadet, Giancarlo et le petit frère, Gigi. En 1964, une famille d'Italie décide de s'installer en Allemagne, à Duisburg, afin que le père trouve du travail. Cependant, il ne veut pas se salir les mains dans l'industrie minière c'est la raison pour laquelle, lorsque la famille apprend que le local en dessous de chez eux est à louer, elle décide d'ouvrir une pizzeria, la première d'Allemagne puisque l'histoire se déroule dans les années 1970. Elle s'appellera Solino, en l'honneur du village d'origine de la famille. On voit grandir les enfants de 10 ans puis encore de plusieurs années à la fin. L'histoire tourne autour du rêve de Gigi : faire un film.

To Rome with Love nous fait partir à la découverte de la ville éternelle à travers différentes histoires de personnages, de simples résidents ou de visiteurs pour l’été, mêlant romances, aventures et quiproquos.

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.