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- The ultimate weapon which was meant to be safe for the mankind produces global side effects including time slides and disappearances.The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerland.
- A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
- An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.
- A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
- A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.
- Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
- Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.
- A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.
- A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
- Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.
- After coupling, Angelo discovers that Alba has handcuffed him to the bed and will not let him go. A womanizer rediscovers fear, doubts and desire.
- Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
- An Interpol agent fights drug dealers in his homeland, the beautiful island of Sardinia and in America.
- The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency. During the party, one of the models gets raped by a powerful guest, with help from the other models. Soon, the models start to get killed one by one.
- In the year 3000 BC an illegitimate son is born to Queen Lostris and the brave warrior Tanus. Her devoted eunuch Taita, a loyal servant, takes the baby boy and places him in a basket on the Nile. Five thousand years later, during our time, famous archaeologist Duraid al Simma and his wife Royan discover Queen Lostris's grave at the same spot, with ten scrolls inside it resembling a form of diary. The seventh scroll, which contains directions to Mamose's magnificent tomb with the legendary treasure, disappears without trace. Soon afterwards the couple adopt an unusual boy who displays an almost magical urge to be close to the Nile, so they name him after the river god Hapi. It is only ten years later that Taita's secret is almost solved. Fanatical art thief Schiller is also very curious about the information, and tries to track down more with the aid of his sidekick Boris. Whe Duraid dies during a struggle for possession of the scroll, Hapi and his mother turn to Nick Harper, an old acquaintance of Duraid's. Harper, who is an archaeologist with a keen sense of adventure and also a ladies' man, decides to help. The three of them travel to Ethiopia, followed by the greedy collector and his evil sidekick Boris, in order to search for the treasure. Eventually they not only solve Taita's strange riddle but also discover the origin of little Hapi, who meets his real parents Lostris and Tanus in a magic labyrinth...
- Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
- The beautiful women were originally conceived by Anna's husband as a barber shop for men, who would be called Armandos and who would open up in partnership with his cousin Cirino. In the salon, Anna owns and holds 60% of the shares, while 40% originally belonged to Cirino who gave it to Vicky. Vicky deals with public relations and furnishings, but she herself will surrender her part to Agnese who takes over as P .; Francesca Cialdi is the accountant, while Luca is the head-hairdresser. As for the rest of the staff, Duska is also involved in manicure and will give way to Elfride when he decides to leave the city. Tina, Mavi and Celeste are the saloon shampoos (Tina will leave the city at the end of the first season). Following the closing of the competing salon (Andrè then renamed Annalisa, Maison de Beautè), managed by the former companion of Luca, Andrea Renzi, and then by his wife Annalisa Bottelli, the cashier Bice Monaglia will be hired by The Beautiful Women, the same job. In the third season Anna, leaving for the United States, surrenders her share to Luca, who becomes the new owner of the salon, assuming Laura Del Bono as a new hairdresser.
- Desideria is the eldest daughter of the Dragon King and Queen and heir to the throne and the Dragon Ring. If she marries a prince that is. When she finds her prince however it turns out to be a rebel prince. When her father finds out she tries to help the prince escape he decides to let all the princes in his conquered kingdoms fight in a tournament for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile her jealous adopted sister tries to get rid of her.
- Protected by his band of mercenaries, Bolivia's toughest drug dealer rules by terror and torture. Fear of the deadly consequences make his extradition to the US impossible but the Washington Narcotics Bureau is determined to make him pay for his crimes.
- A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the identity of the killer, aided by his beautiful girlfriend. Loosely based on a true story.
- Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa must get ready for a final showdown by finding his way through an intricate web of double crosses, while meeting up with old friends and enemies. If Costa wants to survive and save his home, his island, he will have to fight his way out.
- Set in the south of France, Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. They haven't seen each other in a long time and Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it. According to Riki, he's had more than six hundred men and only four women. The brothers who grew up apart will have to get to know another again but both their lives change drastically when they witness a woman's death in a car crash.
- The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey's end does not bring what they were hoping for.
- The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus, sensing his divinity, expresses a desire to return to Nazareth. Travelling homeward with his mother Mary, Jesus flashes forward to events that will unfold in his adult life.
- Those who make the pictures rule the world is the proposition to a movie that connects the former center of picture production ROME and the one of today: LOS ANGELES. Like the genesis the feature film LOS FELIZ has a seven-day structure. A young French girl, the devil and a Japanese Shinto goddess take a trip in an old Mercedes Benz from Rome through a painted and drawn America to LA. By means of huge rolling backgrounds (moved by three cardinals) and drawn sets the classic iconography of American road movies will be laid out. LOS FELIZ packs the vastness of the North American continent into a film studio. A fairy tail, both comedy and drama that caricatures the global omnipresence of Western imagery and Hollywood pictures with humor and irony, although it does not forget to make fun of itself, the illusion film and the genre road movie. All paintings end drawings it needed in order to recreate America were done over the period of 3,5 years by DOCUMENTA participant Edgar Honetschläger.
- Three episodes of everyday immigration in 90s Italy: a group of Nigerian prostitutes, one-day Albanian workers, an Egyptian worker at an oil station.
- The lives of a group of highly-gifted young physicists known as the Via Panisperna Boys, led by Enrico Fermi. One of them, Ettore Majorana, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.
- A former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
- The trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.
- Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
- An elderly man is murdered in his lavish Italian castle. When his friends and family arrive there for the reading of his will, the murderer has plans to continue his gory killing spree.
- Federica Felici is a lawyer who has always been involved in cases of small marginalized, but one day is to defend Laura Conti, which is part of one of the most important families of the city, from the charge of murder.
- Two nasty young men are exchanged by the owner of a hotel for two dangerous thugs and their suitcase for the loot of a robbery.
- The biography of one of most influential Italian politicians, through the dramatic years of fascism, WWII and country economic and social rebuilding. First victim of political persecution, at end premier during the transition from monarchy to republic, De Gasperi was one of the writers of the Italian Constitution, and a thinker capable to invoke an European union when the ruins of war were still burning.
- An unconventional biopic about the legendary Tuscan bandit Tiburzi, who became a peasants' hero in the late nineteenth century.
- The personal destinies of several people, mostly Italian miners and their closed relatives and friends, struck directly or indirectly by the dreadful tragedy which occurred on August 8th 1956 in the coal mine at Marcinelle (Belgium).
- Flavio is a teenager that want to became an actor. His friend Mirco, follow him in a stage for an independent film directed by Melandri, an artist that from 15 years don't find job in the poor movie Italian industries. The producer is Mr Salvati, a man that had found an Ministerial help for to make this film. Melandri hates Salvati, because Salvati is an Hard-core films producer and his idea for to make successful films is simple, "people want to see big dicks, and big buttocks", and than, want his girlfriend, Sabrina, in the film. It's a pity that Sabrina is an hard-core actress without talent. Melandri wants to die! In this contest, Flavio arrive in the production for the stage. He follows the advice of his friend Mirco, says to Melandri that is a biggest director in the world, and that has seen all his films...but Melandri asks him "and which do you prefer?" Flavio doesn't answer and Melandri get out him from the office, but when Flavio open the door, Melandri see Mirco and asks him to do a stage. Mirco is natural and simple. Melandri take him for to play the principal character. Flavio want to die! From this day Flavio try with every way to enter in the cast of the film, with the help of his friend, but Salvati hire him like grip, but without salary. While Flavio learn the movie industries raw rules, Mirco falls in love of an young assistant set decorator, Benedetta. Before the begin of the film, Melandri asks to Salvati to do some scene in hard core style, "for Sabrina is not a problem", says, so he can edit two films, one for hard-core market and another one for normal circuit. The battle begin...
- During archery in a wood Princess Fantaghiro is discovered by the hostile king's son Romualdo. He is able to take a short look at her before she can escape and immediately falls in love with the unknown beauty. When Romulado challenges her father for a duel to end the bloody war between their people Fantaghiro is send out to fight him due to a prophecy. As Romualdo sees her dressed as a man he believes to recognize his beloved. So he tries everything to discover wether she is a man or a woman and prevent the duel. Fantaghiro starts to fall in love with him, too, but her sense of duty is strong. Will love bring them together or will it end as a tragedy?
- Baroness Barbara Altamura investigates shady dealings between her husband and the Mafia.
- Anna comes back from summer holidays with her sons Sara and Michelino, but a bad news welcomes her in the city: her husband, Armando, died in a car crash. The poor woman finds herself covered with debts left by her husband and with two children to be kept. Armando, to open a hairdresser shop for man, had asked for a loan to his cousin Cirino, avid and petty person.
- Tony Moro presents himself at Rosy's teenage daughter, Susanna, as "mom's boyfriend". The girl seduced by her fascinating and obscure ways of Rosy's past follows it. Man's daring terrorizes Rosy. Tony made her, very young, prostitute; she is now out of jail and is blackmailing her.
- The Spadoni Accounts, Peter and Miranda, have decided to accompany volunteers as a Red Cross convoy in Africa. But the night before the departure Count Peter died tragically, invested by a truck. His corneas, however, will return to Bodes, a Senegalese child in economic troubles, whom Countess Miranda later decides to adopt.