Giuliano Montaldo

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order and taught widely throughout Europe. Among the ideas he taught were the inexpressibility of any ultimate truths and the complete relativity of ordinary truth. He also taught religious tolerance... (All Movie Guide)

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70. (imdb)

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions. (imdb)

A meek book-keeper (Vittorio) brings on his squalid life, which is interrupted when he becomes friend with a policeman (Sauro). Vittorio is introduced to gun shooting, and appears to be very gifted. This fact gives a shake to his dull existence, but when he gets in trouble with gangsters, he'll regret the past. (imdb)

St. Petersburg, 1860. An attack causing the death of a member of the imperial family. A few days later the writer Fjodor Mikhajlovic Dostoevsky meets Gusiev, a young man who is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confessed that he had been a member of the terrorist group and reveals that his comrades are preparing a plan to eliminate any relative of the Tsar...

A mobster is released from prison and presented with a heist full of problems.

At the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Nazis. (imdb)

Fifteen strangers take part in an experiment to learn whether such a group can survive in a cramped disaster fallout shelter. (imdb)

1936, the Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri while suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. On his way he meets and rapes a young Ethiopian and later kills her to avoid further pain. When he finally reaches the hospital, he realizes he has been exposed to leprosy. (imdb)

Collective documentary about the funerals of Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer.

An audience is watching a western in a cinema. Then suddenly a gunshot is heard and an man dies in his chair shot. The police immediately starts an investigation and nobody is to leave the theater. The killer has to be in the building so it has to be just a matter of time that the killer will be found. But the strange thing is they cannot find him or any weapon. Further investigation reveals some strange facts and when they reenact the situation another man is killed in the same chair. (imdb)

Nicola's business is about to go bankrupt and his wife doesn't love him anymore. A neorealistic movie on the downfall of the character.

The life and experiences of the 13th-century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade. (imdb)

The Cuban Revolution turns 50. Fifty years of history, myths and challenges of a country that has influenced politics and culture around the world, becoming for many the symbol of the revolt against capitalism.

A Jewish family and a homosexual doctor suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. Based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani.

A man is beset by financial and personal problems, as his business goes bankrupt and he finds out his wife is being unfaithful. Undeterred, he battles on and his determination carries the day. (imdb)