Rosalino Cellamare

The Private Lesson

Alessandro has a thing or two to learn. Carroll Baker, in her role, is the perfect teacher.

Lady Liberty

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal.

And Agnes Chose To Die

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

The Belt

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.

Guardando Le Stelle

Mauro and Isabella don't know each other, but they both suffer from panic attacks. He is a real estate agent, extroverted, living in Imola; she is a writer, shy and reserved, living in Milan. From the moment they meet, they realize a side of themselves that they didn't imagine existed.

In the Name of the Pope King

In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.

Pino Daniele, Francesco De Gregori, Fiorella Mannoia, Ron: In Tour

Le Iene

Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other.