The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
Een jonge tekenaar denkt dat hij een origineel idee heeft gevonden: hij wil een animatiefilm maken op basis van een aantal klassieke muziekstukken. Op een dag komt hij er helaas achter dat een Amerikaan genaamd Prisney jaren geleden al hetzelfde idee had, en de tekenaar besluit dan maar om zijn project een hele andere draai te geven.
Marco is een televisiejournalist die 'leugens' leest op zijn teletekstsysteem om materiaal over de homowereld te verzamelen voor een verhaal dat hij aan het schrijven is. Helaas was hij betrokken bij een reeks moorden, die allemaal homoseksueel waren. Marco wordt verdachte en wordt gedwongen de misdaad zelf te onderzoeken om zijn onschuld te bewijzen.
Salomè, de promiscue dochter van koningin Herodias, wordt begeerd door haar verdorven stiefvader, koning Herodes Antipas. Wanneer haar verleidingspoging van Johannes de Doper mislukt gaat ze in op de wens van haar stiefvader via de beroemde dans der zeven sluiers. Daarvoor eist ze wel dat Herodes Johannes de Doper vermoordt.
A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.
Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swift's hero Gulliver.
In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Although the drug is present in this film, the Crack this movie is about is, metaphorically, the crack in society which all the protagonists inhabit in a rundown neighborhood in Rome.
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything. He confronts the most terrible loneliness following a shipwreck in which all the comrades perish.
Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a well-filmed homage to "Peeping Tom", with nods to "Psycho" and "Strangers on a Train".
The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the confrontation with the question of the meaning of life ...
Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silvana (Genevieve Page) for her writer boyfriend (David Brandon). Her first obstacle is the boarding house owner and former stage star Pola Mareschi, who is very protective of her tenant's privacy. Lidia is robbed by a motorcycle gang in the middle of the living room and is caught up in a performance put on by the residents. Lidia soon finds herself wanting to stay with the quirky actors as she becomes a performer in their offbeat antics.
Een eiland is gedecimeerd door een vulkaanuitbarsting en de weinige overlevenden ontsnappen naar een nabijgelegen eiland. Onder leiding van Rutolo weten ze dat hun nieuwe huis via zijn eigen vulkaan even vatbaar is voor een dergelijke catastrofe, maar ze kunnen de huidige bewoners van eiland #2 niet overtuigen om met hen naar een vasteland te vluchten.
The story of a turbulent relationship between Elisa, a mentally unstable young woman, and her psychiatrist who, meets her after she's hospitalized when she faints in a subway station. He advises her to stay in the hospital, but she wants to feel free.
Silvia, who lives in a villa in the hills, has a quarrel with her husband and his friends and then goes away down to the city, where she has the bad luck of being attacked by a group of misfits. At her rescue is a photographer who, in turn, is in trouble for having witnessed a murder by the Chinese mafia...
The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.
