Lana Vlady

The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe's largest theatre.

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.

When a murder happens in Norilsk, one of Russia’s most polluted industrial cities, a young police woman has to deal with the strange manners of the key suspect, the victim’s wife, trying to solve the case. More and more she moves away from the standard question of who’s to blame.

A mom needs to explain to her daughter the disappearing of her little chicken.

A group of friends, spending the weekend in a house in the isolated countryside, are attacked by a swarm of killer horseflies that feed on human flesh like piranhas. The group soon discovers that the only deterrent that can keep the insects away is THC, the main ingredient that makes up cannabis. Their only hope of survival is therefore given by the consumption of grass, with all the consequences that entails.

Young sprinter Maria has to face the greatest race of her life in order to reunite with her best friend and find a long lost connection to her mother.

Michele is a superficial man with nothing but contempt for other people and who lives only to show off his wealth on social media, until he finds himself mistaken for a North African immigrant in Eastern Europe and deported.

A funny and intelligent comedy about a wonderfully flawed woman.

Camilla wants to be a ballerina and the upcoming auditions for a dance college will be a great opportunity for her to showcase her talent. But, pushy like a tenacious summer wind, Sara swirls into her life and introduces her to an unfamiliar world made of sex, shopping sprees, soft drugs, parties, and wild friends.

About the female generation of one family: their love, faith and a promise of a lifetime.

Vika, the wife of a major official, is forced to follow her married husband to the small Siberian town of Tashtagol, where he is running for mayor. As a result of a family quarrel and a series of comical incidents, she loses her memory, completely forgetting who she is and where she comes from. Vika wakes up in the house of the unsociable forester Mikhail, who is raising three children alone. Taking advantage of the fact that Vika does not remember anything, the children inform her that she is their mother… At the same time, an election race starts in the city, in which the forester unexpectedly finds himself involved. He asks his new wife to help him with his image and preparations for the elections. The case takes on an even more comedic turn when the unsuspecting heroine gets involved in a political struggle against her real husband.

A bit like Italy’s answer to “Modern Family,” “Come Fai Sbagli” (“How to Do Wrong”) follows two families as they cope with modern life. The series is a perfect mixture of humor and drama, and it sums up what it’s like to raise children in today’s day and age, both the positive and negative sides of it.