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Night Before the Exams

  The film follows two teenagers, Luca (Nicolas Vaporidis) and Claudia (Cristiana Capotondi), and their friends as they all prepare for the dreaded maturità (high school graduation) exams during the Read More

Christmas in Italy

  Christmas in Italy is an educational video introducing viewers to the sights, sounds, traditions and customs typical of the Italian Christmas season. Everything from the sounds of the Zampognari Read More

Wondrous Boccaccio

  Florence, Thirteenth Century. The “Black Death” is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible Read More

The Family

Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means “free man,” to his 80th birthday party. The film Read More

The Sweet Life

  In Federico Fellini’s lauded Italian film, restless reporter Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) drifts through life in Rome. While Marcello contends with the overdose taken by his girlfriend, Emma (Yvonne Read More

The Innocent

  Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

I’m Not Scared

  In a small town in Italy in 1978, 9-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds Fillipo (Mattia Di Perro), seemingly dead in a deep hole in the ground, while on a Read More

The Postman

  When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired Read More

The Profession of Arms

  The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De’ Medici, a young Read More

Welcome to the South

  Overwhelmed by his wife, a Northern Italy postal worker feigns a disability to request a transfer to Milan and when he’s unmasked is sent for two years to a Read More