Vincent was born near Paris, but has cut off every link with his roots. Maria, fifteen years younger, grew up in Ostia, but no longer sees her family. Together they form a couple that does not seem to need anyone. They lead a secluded life in contemporary Rome, indolent and distracted. Furthermore, Vincent and Maria are good at blending in with their environment. When they return home, they make love with the passion of young lovers in a suburban apartment that she has carefully furnished. Yet, on closer inspection, their everyday life betrays what lies behind their seemingly normal appearance: a project carried out by him with a clear determination and accepted by her only by virtue of unconditional love. A plan to help couples who cannot have children. Maria decides that it is time to create a real family. This choice has an inevitable consequence: the rebellion against Vincent, the man of her life.

Student Harry genießt sein Single-Leben in New York City in vollen Zügen. Er beginnt eine Affäre mit einer älteren, geschiedenen Frau. Kurz darauf trifft er Grace, in die er sich sofort Hals über Kopf verliebt. Alles läuft perfekt, Harry scheint seine Traumfrau gefunden zu haben. Als ihre Beziehung die nächste Stufe erreicht und Harry Graces Eltern kennenlernen soll, beginnt sein Albtraum. Die ältere, angeblich geschiedene Dame, mit der Harry, kurz bevor er Grace traf, eine Affäre hatte, entpuppt sich als Graces Mutter Maren. Harry will die noch frische Beziehung zu Grace nicht gefährden und auch Maren will ihre Ehe trotz des Seitensprungs nicht aufs Spiel setzen, deshalb beschließen die beiden, aus ihrer Liaison ein Geheimnis zu machen. Doch Harry will die Zukunft mit Grace nicht auf einer Lüge aufbauen. Er befindet sich in einer moralischen Zwickmühle, die das Wochenende nicht erträglicher macht...

Der Gelegenheitskriminelle Jimbo hat Spielschulden bei einem örtlichen Mafiosi. Um diese zurückzahlen zu können und seine Familie zu beschützen, entschließt er sich, einen Fischladen auszurauben, der zufälligerweise eben jenem Mafioso gehört. Der Überfall geht schief und Jimbo muss Unterschlupf in einem Kuriositätenkabinett suchen, wo er die exzentrische Kundschaft des Geschäfts als Geiseln nimmt. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch Joe Maguire, der vielleicht oder vielleicht auch nicht Jimbos schon lange verschwundener, leiblicher Vater sein könnte. Der junge Mann muss einen Weg aus der prekären Lage finden, während er von Gesetzeshütern unter der Leitung des ehrgeizigen Detectives Weller und von den Schergen des Mafiabosses umzingelt wird. Als alles andere scheitert, kommt er auf die Idee, die kauzige Geisel als seinen Partner einzuspannen.

Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside.

Inspired by one of the most savage and violent crimes committed in Rome in the 1980s, "Rabbia Furiosa" is the story of Fabio, a small-time neighborhood crook, known as “Er Canaro” (the Dog Man) who suffers years of abuse and mistreatment from Claudio, a local boss of the criminal underworld. When he is driven to desperation and the brink of madness, he will carry out a terrible and bloody act of vengeance...

Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes, its author, Stephen Hawking, concedes that the "ultimate theory" he'd believed to be imminent - which would conclusively explain the origins of life, the universe and everything - remains frustratingly elusive. Yet despite his failing health and the seeming impossibility of the task, Hawking is still devoted to his work; an extraordinary drive that's captured here in fleeting interview snippets and footage of the scientist sharing a microwave dinner with some fawning PhD students. Though the pop-science tutorials that dapple the first of this two-part biography are winningly perky, Hawking, alas, remains as tricky to fathom as his boggling quantum whatnots

A comic movie divided in three episodes.

A talent agent with a truly talentless client roster, Ercole Preziosi finds himself in trouble when a car crash injures his star comedian, so he turns to his young plucky driver to do stand-up duty.

The Tucci family discovers that they have not really lost all their money and, refusing to pay Italian taxes, decides to turn Torresecca into a tax haven, relying on a post-Italian unification bureaucratic oversight.

Carlo is a doctor that has recently lost his wife. Affected by the loss, he is supported by his family and friends, and, above all, for the love he feels towards his little daughter. And then, one day, he meets Camille.

Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant living in Munich who's genuinely happy to come back to Italy, even if just for a few days, but the country he dreams of is far from reality; Furio travels to Rome with his family, but his niggling attitude threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo is also going to Rome, but the trip is repeatedly interrupted by worries about his grandma's health.

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.

Dokumentation um das groß angelegte Projekt “The Man who Killed Don Quixote”, das Terry Gilliam mit Johnny Depp in der Hauptrolle drehen wollte. “The Man who Killed Don Quixote” sollte sich um einen namens Toby Grosini, ein junger Mann aus der Werbebranche, drehen, der sich plötzlich einige hundert Jahre in die Vergangenheit versetzt wiederfindet, wo er auf Don Quixote trifft. Toby sollte schon bald unter dem Namen Sancho Panza bekannt sein. Im Sommer 2000 bereitet sich Regiegenie Terry Gilliam in Madrid auf die Dreharbeiten seines neuen Films “The Man Who Killed Don Quichotte” vor, seiner ganz persönlichen Interpretation von Cervantes’ Klassiker mit Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp und Vanessa Paradis in den Hauptrollen. Die chaotischen Produktionsbedingungen können Gilliams Begeisterung nicht schmälern. Er hat zehn Jahre für dieses Projekt gekämpft und steht nun kurz vor der Verwirklichung seines Traums.

Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.

Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, a country in which the justice process is very long and uncertain, he decides to take revenge in another way: he discovers that his enemy has hidden the proceeds of his misdeeds in a Swiss bank and decides to organize a hit to get back what was stolen from him. To accomplish the feat, Antonio sets up a small gang, made up of non-professionals who have only one thing in common: they too have been defrauded by corrupt politics. The heist takes place in Zurich where the bank in which Simone hid the money is based. With a series of unpredictable consequences, and with a funny substitution of people (Antonio and his wife pretend to be Simone and his partner), a comic clockwork mechanism starts. And the heist begins.

Annie, eine alte Apfelverkäuferin am Broadway, ist bei jedermann im Viertel beliebt, auch bei dem Ganoven „David der Lord“ und seiner Freundin Queenie. Apfel-Annie hat eine Tochter, die in einem spanischen Internat aufgewachsen ist und nun mit ihrem adligen Verlobten nach New York kommen will – was Annie in die Verzweiflung stürzt: Hat sie ihrer Tochter doch jahrelang vorgemacht, sie sei eine reiche Dame der Gesellschaft. Mit Hilfe von David und Queenie wird sie das auch.

The story of a gang of French female robbers disguised as men, who operated in the Avignon area in the mid-1980s.