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- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsUgo TognazziAnouk AiméeLaura MoranteAn Italian businessman decides whether to pay a ransom for his abducted son or not.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMichele PlacidoClaudio AmendolaFrancesco BenignoA teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
- DirectorTonino De BernardiStarsAnna CoppoCristina CrovellaLuciana PasinSet in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Adapted from the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, located in a small Italian peasant village with its inhabitants as protagonists.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsVincent SpanoJoaquim de AlmeidaGreta ScacchiAfter the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing sets for D.W. Griffith and marry beautiful actresses, but tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides...
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsBen GazzaraLaura del SolLeo GullottaRise and fall of an Italian crime empire.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMarcello MastroianniClaudia CardinaleLeopoldo TriesteDeranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinAdolfo CeliThe four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanFanny ArdantStefania SandrelliWith the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneElena FabriziIrina SanpiterOn Election Day, three Italians travel to their hometowns to vote.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneEleonora GiorgiChristian De SicaSergio Benvenuti finds a job as musical agent to an important Italian publisher. This could be his final step before to marry Rossella. But his career does not rise, so he asks Nadia Vandelli, a more-experienced agent and a nice girl, to work with him for just one day to gain more experience. They must meet Manuel Fantoni in his own flat; Nadia is late, but Sergio goes ahead with the meeting. By the time she arrives, Sergio has found out that Fantoni isn't what he said he was. Things escalate quickly until Sergio lands in an incredible situation from which he can't escape.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEddie MurphyDan AykroydRalph BellamyA snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.