Salman Rushdie: intrigo internazionale (2019)

Road to Wasteland

Every year, in the heart of the Mojave Desert in California is there a meeting during four days. The participants, a couple of wild handymen, pilots and inventors, who come to driving their replica from the Mad Max saga and to share their passion : the Apocalypse vehicle.

Fishing and Fishermen's Conversations

A nobleman poet embarks on boat trip with two local fishermen. As they hop the bucolic islands he recalls his youthful tragic love, his artistic impotence and uneasy relationship with common fishermen.

Thermopylae

A distraught man in coat and tie grips the guardrail at a remote cliff overlooking the Pacific. At a boys' high school in toney Rancho Palos Verdes, Mr. Radford teaches classics. His best student is the earnest Andrew. Late one evening, Andrew stops by Mr. Radford's office; Andrew's been the only student to do well on a recent exam. They chat, and something happens that brings a sleepless night to Mr. Radford. The next day, Andrew misses Mr. Radford's class, and after, Mr. Radford is aghast to see Andrew and Andrew's father waiting outside the principal's office. What's the teacher's fear, and what will he do about it?

WWE Vengeance 2001

Vengeance (2001) was the first annual Vengeance PPV. It was presented by Lugz and took place on December 9, 2001 at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California. The main feature of the event was a three-match tournament to unify the WWF Championship and the unbranded former WCW Championship into what became known as the Undisputed Championship. Stone Cold Steve Austin competed against kurt Angle in the first match for the WWF Championship. Chris Jericho then competed against the Rock for the World Championship. The winners of those two matches then fought for the Undisputed Championship title. In the undercard, The Hardcore Championship was defended by Rob Van Dam against The Undertaker, Edge defended the Intercontinental Championship against William Regal, Big Show and Kane challenged The Dudley Boyz for the Tag team Championship belts, and Trish Stratus fought Jacqueline for the Women's Championship.

The Mutilation Man

Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the psysical abuse Ivan suffered. He must make peace within himself through a sacrifice of blood and honor.

Medea

Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

El profesor erótico

The nephew of a sexologist must take care of his uncle's clients.

Casa Ricordi

Il film narra la saga familiare della celebre casa editrice musicale milanese nata in epoca napoleonica ad opera di un modesto stampatore che, in cambio di una commessa del presidio militare ottenne i vecchi spartiti giacenti nel magazzino del teatro "Alla Scala". Attraverso la saga dei Ricordi il film traccia anche la storia della lirica italiana dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento, da Rossini a Verdi, da Donizetti a Puccini...

The Golden Girl

Andreea Raducan, a successful 32-year-old woman and one of Romania’s greatest gymnasts, sacrificed her childhood to become an Olympic champion. She finally won the all-round Olympic gold medal in Sydney in 2000, but was stripped of it three days later after testing positive for a doping substance contained in a flu tablet her doctor had administered to her minutes before she entered the competition. Fifteen years later, Andreea is fighting the toughest fight against the people who deceived her, as she tries to recover her medal and, along with it, her dignity.

Mr. Skitch

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.

Stevie's Aliens

A skeptical high school student is thrown into a night of adventure after he sees a UFO.

Marathon of an Unfinished Spring: Grigoris Lambrakis

The documentary presents rare photographic archives and hitherto unknown film documents documenting the unique case of Grigoris Lambrakis. Valuable first-time material that has been specially edited to be saved and shared with the public decades later. In the documentary - among other things - Grigoris Lambrakis himself appears in the Marathon Peace March, while footage of the popular pilgrimage to his body and the grand funeral-demonstration are presented, as well as testimonies of people who knew or worked with Grigoris Lambrakis.

The Love Ban

In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

Painful Smile

Painful Smile is a psychological thriller about a young woman who experiences sexual assault.

Tosca

Tratto dal dramma di Victorien Sardou, a sua volta alla base dell'opera di Puccini, la storia della cantante Floria Tosca - amante del pittore Cavaradossi - che, nella Roma papalina, finge di cedere alle voglie del barone Scarpia per salvare l'amato, condannato a morte. Infatti Scarpia ha promesso una finta esecuzione per Mario, dando poi ad essi la possibilità di lasciare Roma. Ma il Barone inganna Tosca e fa fucilare realmente Cavaradossi. Davanti al suo corpo immobile, Tosca - che ha già ucciso Scarpia - si getta dai bastioni di Castel Sant'Angelo.

Gli eroi del deserto

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).

The Chair Carrier

Sayed is a defeated human being living in the slums of old Cairo where he is constantly bombarded with government propaganda. He crosses paths with an ancient Egyptian porter carrying a throne and wondering in search of his lost king. Now Sayed wants to be seated too 'even for 5 minutes to see how it feels'. This political allegory is a study of the inherent self-imposed oppression in third world nations.

The Stepdaughter

After moving in with her dad and his new family, a seemingly sweet high schooler is willing to do anything to keep him to herself, including murder.

Child Bride

Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her crusade. One of these men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on little Jennie and plots to make her his bride.

Metrobranding

While people in Western Europe were used to choose between hundreds of brands, the communist Romanian used to have a different experience: all our life we lived with only one brand for each basic product. Imagine the importance that this 'mono-brands' could acquire for the lives of those who made them and for the lives of those who consumed them. A love story between man and object.

The Ron Clark Story

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How Sweet It Is: The Lou Whitaker Story

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Carlotta

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Lénine : une autre histoire de la révolution russe

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Pancho Villa, la leggenda

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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

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Walkabout to Hollywood

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Robert Redford, l'ange blond

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Ein Leben für den Film - Lotte Eisner

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The Capote Tapes

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Elliott Smith - Il cielo ti ama

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Eugene Cernan: L'ultimo uomo sulla Luna

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Barbra Streisand - Nascita di una stella

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Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest

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The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb

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Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

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Elton John: A Singular Man

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Rat Pack - Da Hollywood a Washington

Fra gli anni '50 e '60, Frank Sinatra riunì una sorta di clan che passò alla storia sotto il nome di "Rat Pack", composto da Sammy Davis jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford e Joey Bishop. Oltre all'attività più strettamente artistica (basti pensare a un film come _Colpo grosso_), il "Rat Pack" intrattenne una serie di relazioni sempre più intricate con gli ambienti della politica (i Kennedy), delle istituzioni (l'Fbi) e perfino - in maniera più o meno esplicita - della criminalità organizzata (Sam Giancana, famigerato boss di Cosa Nostra).

Framing Britney Spears

Ascesa e declino di una pop star. Un docu-inchiesta della serie The New York Times Presents ripercorre le vicissitudini di Britney Spears, teen idol e icona musicale degli anni ‘90. I suoi successi, la popolarità, ma anche le burrascose cadute, le controversie ancora aperte.

Gérard Philipe, le dernier hiver du Cid

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Patrick Dewaere, mon héros

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L'ombra di Goya

Lo scrittore francese Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) ripercorre la vita e l'opera del pittore spagnolo Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique

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Bugatti - Im Rausch der Geschwindigkeit

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Attenborough at 90

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JO de Berlin 36, la grande illusion

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Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

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Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras

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Marcel Duchamp - L'arte del possibile

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Bruce Springsteen, le chanteur qui murmurait à l'oreille de l'Amérique

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Uma Thurman – Die stille Kämpferin Hollywoods

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Mario y los perros

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More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

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Tina Turner - My Songs. My Life

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Chavela

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All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State

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Medina

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Bruce Springsteen: In His Own Words

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Julia Roberts : Le Coup de foudre d'Hollywood

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Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

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Crash and Burn

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Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton

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Gray Matters

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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

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Dalida et Orlando, les âmes sœurs

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Conversation avec Claude Lelouch

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Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent

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Henri-Georges Clouzot: Le tyran eclaire

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