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A teenager returns home to spend his summer vacation. However, in a mansion full of women, he will have no choice but to expand his education in titillating ways.

A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.

The story of a Turkish Alevi family trying to illegally emigrate to Switzerland, a country they know only from a postcard.

Lorenzo, a handsome first-year professor in an isolated Italian village, falls under the spell of his most beguiling pupil, a dark-haired, starry-eyed 12-year-old named Duilio. As Lorenzo's relationship with his heartless girlfriend deteriorates, he finds himself walking the fields with his loving student. When their idyllic friendship is questioned by Duilio's suspicious stepmother, Lorenzo is brought to a crisis of conscience.

Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century, conceives an idea: to seduce Ehrengard, a young and fiery virgin, without touching her, but only causing the blush of complicity to rise to her cheeks. In the end, after the painter's cunning is turned back upon him, everything will go for the best.

In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.

A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".

After a plane crashes a western woman is found by two inhabitants in the middle of the desert. Unable to communicate with the two men and traumatized by the accident, the woman accepts her estranged new life.

Emilio is a clever and introverted teenager who lives with intolerance the confidential relation between his father Dario, a left wing university professor, and his former student Giulia. When Sandro Ferrari, Giulia's lover, is killed at a roadblock, Emilio tells the police how the young man used to go to their home.

Two brothers travel through the Italian countryside with a mobile cinema in the 1920s.

A confused scientist chooses to bid farewell to celibacy by wandering along the Via Aurelia road, and runs into the disturbing Maddalena Crippa.

Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself with one's past, as well as with the nostalgia of an era.

Fifteen-year-old anarchist Anteo Zamboni attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Bologna during the so-called March on Rome on October 31, 1926. He was immediately lynched by fascists. This failed assassination led to the reintroduction of the death penalty for attacks on state institutions and the outlawing of opposition parties, along with the arrest of their supporters.

Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian writer, poet and movie director who was murdered in 1975, becomes the subject of this biographical documentary.

A very earnest--but very confused--young man is smitten by a young woman he meets in a cafe. He pursues her through the city, even as obstacle after obstacle get in his way.

One of the great talents of Italy's silent film era, now in her nineties, recounts her life in a feisty style interspersed with footage from her career.