Cronaca nera

La vita cambia

Malicious

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

The Day of the Owl

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.

The Wings of the Dove

An Italian adaptation of Henry James's 1902 novel of the same name. The series is a dramatic interpretation set in Italy, exploring themes of love, morality, and betrayal, as in the original novel, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Europe.

Partner

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.

Appassionata

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Love Under the Elms

An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well.

Love and Anger

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

La Partenza

A street strewn with papers. The legs of passers-by. A young man crosses the street. Then we find him in the middle of a discussion with a friend. “Are you still determined to leave? – Yes, I'm leaving today at five o'clock by plane. »

Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini

After rapidly ascending the ranks of the Socialist Party, Benito Mussolini created a Fascist state in 1920s Italy through his use of propaganda and diplomacy and led his people in a bloody war that would ultimately result in his downfall.

Exodus

In 1945 Ada Sereni left her three children in Palestine - where she had lived for eighteen years - and returned to Italy in serach of her husband who went missing durin the war. She immediately become involved in an underground movement Aliah Bet, which secretly organized the expatriation to the promised land of Jews who had esacped Nazi concentration camps. This is the story of how a third of Europe's surviving Jews left Italy for their new home.

Cronaca Nera: Delitti al Torraccio

Walter and his father, during a trip outside the city, give a ride to Ivano, a young man passionate about birdwatching. A few hours later, the young man is found dead, and not far away, the bodies of a young couple are also discovered. In the following days, another murder occurs in the same wooded area of “Torraccio.” The journalist soon realizes that he is dealing with a dangerous serial killer, and that his father, in poor health, has seen the killer's face, thus putting himself in serious danger

Un'isola d'inverno

Cronaca Nera: La Clinica dei Vip

Walter Cherubini, in the middle of the night, receives a mysterious phone call in the editorial office. This is the widow Mazzanti, admitted to a famous private clinic in Parma, who claims to be held prisoner. The next day, the opera singer Marinelli, also a guest at the facility, was found dead. The reporter, having infiltrated the clinic and aided in the investigation by a nurse, will be able to unravel the mystery.

Cronaca Nera: Il Portiere Distratto

The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.

Rosaura alle 10

Behind Rosaura lies a story involving a man who is a permanent guest at the boarding house, the painter Camillo Canegato; ahead of her, an improvised wedding and a violent death, all unfolding within a short span of time. But who Rosaura really is -her true identity, her personal history, the traits of her character, even the features of her body- will never be clearly revealed.