The Slaughter - La mattanza

In Hanna's life everything suddenly seems to fall apart. Accused of her husband's heinous murder, she is forced to flee to Hungary to defend the only reason for living she has left; the child she is carrying. In Budapest she will seek help from her cousin Hugo, who will drag her into a spiral of violence involving a dark past and a bloodline to reckon with.

The story is about Eva, a Ukrainian girl who has come to Milan to work as a model. As soon as she arrives in Italy she attracts the attention of the male world. All of the men that she encounters seem to be solely interested in exploiting her beauty: and so we have Luke, the stalker, who never stops tormenting her with text messages and phone calls; Airoldi, the shady television producer, who offers her various jobs in exchange for her sexual favours, and lastly, Tom, a vile photographer, who has no scruples whatsoever. After being raped at a party by Tom and two of his colleagues, Eva is invited by Cindy, her flatmate, to a sort of Sabbath, attended solely by women, in a place outside Milan. From that moment on, the gateway to success in the fashion world opens before Eva and, at the same time, a tremendous vendetta begins against the violent male world.

Against the fascinating backdrop of an ever marvellous Havana, Vittorio Arditi De Bellis, an aging Italian orchestra conductor once celebrated for specialising in Rossini's compositions, has fallen on hard times. However, some remember he delivered some of the best renditions of the Rossini-Kyrie, and he soon finds himself reluctantly on the way to Havana, Cuba, to conduct the Children's Cuban National Choir. Starting on the wrong foot he quickly finds himself on the verge of losing everything. Rossini's Cuban style and the choir's children are also protagonists in this heart-warming and nostalgic tale of living, loving, growing old and being unexpectedly surprised when he meets the Son he never knew he fathered years ago - Vittorio's past adds new purpose to his present, allowing an otherwise quirky old man to feel his passion and taste the 'spice of life' once again.

Two robbers on the run end up in the clutches of a doctor who experiments on people to navigate the afterlife. What seems to be an innocuous foray into a scientific and existential revolution for humanity soon takes a turn for the worse.

A group of female students and their lecturer, Nora, camp inside a bomb bunker to do research on the theses they are writing. After being escorted by a sinister-looking janitor, the girls prepare to spend twenty-four hours locked in the bunker. In the middle of the night, two of them disappear without a trace. Nora coordinates the search, but soon the survivors find themselves trapped in a maelstrom of violence at the hands of an anthropophagous.

During a nighttime stroll, Giorgio, a burnt-out painter, encounters the beautiful Emanuelle, whom he makes his new muse. What he doesn't know is that Emanuelle has gotten herself into a dangerous deal with gangsters.

Freely adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Seymour Hersh, this film recounts the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the story of a platoon of American soldiers led by Second Lieutenant Wm. Calley. Falling into an ambush, they come under enemy fire and in the disastrous fight that ensues, two young soldiers lose their lives; a third is so badly injured that Sgt. Cowen is forced to put him out of his hopeless agony.

The destiny of Giuliana is radically changed when two robbers suddenly break into the supermarket where she works and take her hostage.

Businessman Leonardo, loves women especially model/student Francesca, who appreciates the attention but refuses to succumb to his charms. He then meets writer Emanuelle, who offers him a true sexual challenge.

David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily, a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly.

Intercut stories of four women and their difficult relationship with unworthy men.

Starting from the distance that separates him from asteroid 121019 Minodamato, the narrator embarks on an emotional journey in search of the many lives of his grandfather, Mino Damato: from reporting on some of the most devastating conflicts of the postwar era to the bright lights of 1980s television, and finally to his encounter with an HIV-positive orphan who would change his life forever. As fragments of family, personal and collective memory are pieced together, Mino’s boundless fascination with the cosmos emerges as the thread connecting a life that seems impossible to decipher.