The Mass Is Ended

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal a…

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous exper…

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and…

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finis…

Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Willia…

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they tr…

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.

Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into oth…

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be …

Nuori neito hoivaa mystistä enkelin munaa karussa ja unenomaisessa kaupungissa. Sotaisa nuorukainen saapuu kaupunkiin jahtaamaan unelmiaan. Heidän välilleen syntyy hauras ystävyys.

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising h…

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now ce…

Tuhoutuneen Detroitin ja eksoottisen Tangerin romanttisissa maisemissa elävät vuosisatoja vanhat vampyyrit Adam ja Eve. Pariskunta on pitänyt yhtä jo ikuisuuden, eläen niin yhdessä kuin erilläänkin, mutta aina toisiaan ikävöiden ja rakastae…

Rauhallinen protesti muuttuu väkivaltaiseksi yhteenotoksi poliisin kanssa. Kahakkaa seuraa yksi historian pahamaineisimmista oikeudenkäynneistä.

Jiro unelmoi lentämisestä ja upeiden lentokoneiden suunnittelusta. Likinäköisenä hän ei pääse lentokouluun, niinpä hän päättää hankkia työpaikan suuren japanilaisen konerakennusfirman lentokoneosastolta vuonna 1927. Hänen taitonsa huomataan…

The Hurt Locker kertoo amerikkalaisesta pomminpurkuyksiköstä, jolla on yksi maailman vaarallisimmista töistä. Yksikön uusi komentaja on rämäpäinen humanistikyynikko William James. James kulkee virne naamallaan läpi sala-ampujien kyttäämien …

Rämäpäinen Pazu pelastaa taivaalta alas leijuvan Sheeta tytön. Kaivoskaupungissa apupoikana huseeraava Pazu unelmoi lentämisestä. Sheeta kantaa kaulassaan kiviriipusta, joka näyttäisi kumoavan painovoiman, joten nuorten unelmilla näyttäisi …