Nastro d'Argento 1990-1999
Nominated or awarded movies in Nastro d'Argento during the 90s
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- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsVittorio GassmanGiancarlo GianniniAndréa FerréolA businessman has trouble reuniting with his roguish con-artist uncle, especially when the uncle propositions school-age girls and comes on to his nephew's mistress.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsSergio CastellittoLina SastriNancy BrilliPaolo is an actor still in love with Francesca, his former partner, and wanders around the apartment where they are loved and separated. He is determined to stay there.
- DirectorGianfrancesco LazottiStarsJo ChampaMaurizio FerriniAlessandra MartinesSome friends in their 40s meet in Cesenatico at a time when the absence of mass tourism makes the town more romantic and enjoyable.
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsFrancesca PrandiStella VordemannAmanda SandrelliThree girls spend some days in a country manor in Toscana. Waiting for a boy? Their friendship will increase during the time passed together and, when a boy arrives, maybe - they won't be there.
- DirectorDominique DeruddereStarsJoe MantegnaOrnella MutiFaye DunawayYoung Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers.
- DirectorPaul BartelStarsJacqueline BissetRay SharkeyMary WoronovThe widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
- StarsArtur BarcisOlgierd LukaszewiczOlaf LubaszenkoTen television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsDebra WingerJohn MalkovichCampbell ScottAn American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsClaudio BoniventoThywill AmeniaPamela VilloresiKwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò...
- DirectorAntonietta De LilloGiorgio MagliuloStarsCarla BenedettiSilvio OrlandoLuigi PetrucciMatilda is an unlucky girl: her boyfriends keep dying in strange accidents. The last of them, Torquato, a shy filing clerk, is a little afraid of this situation and doesn't know how to continue the relationship.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorSilvano AgostiStarsFederico ZanolaElisa MuroloRoberto BrignaniA man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding. He remembers the meetings with Crimen, an old man who lived alone on the mountain. People said that when he was young he ate his wife out of love for her. Fascism has crumbled. In the chaos of the Liberation, Silvano's father is threatened. The boy, returning home from a stay in the hospital, hears that Crimen is dead. After a fight with his father, Silvano runs away to the mountain to find Crimen, but after the long road there it's not the boy who arrives, but Silvano as an adult. He observes the refuge in which the old man lives, and is moved by the human words of solidarity that the old man used to whisper to him.
- DirectorAntonio CapuanoStarsNando TriolaGiovanni BrunoPina LeoneVITO AND THE OTHERS is the groundbreaking film which drew international attention to the problem of neglected youth and street crime in poverty-stricken Naples. The film's opening moments are startling and deeply disturbing. A despairing Rosario has just murdered his wife and daughter at the dinner table on New Year's Eve. Somehow, Vito quietly convinces his father to drop the gun, spare their lives and call the police. Placed in the custody of sexually abusive relatives, Vito is left free to roam the trash-strewn back streets of Naples where he and his friends engage in drug abuse, prostitution and petty crime. Ably acted by a large cast of nonprofessional street kids, VITO AND THE OTHERS is a heartrending portrait of innocents without a future.
- DirectorGiulio BaseStarsGiulio BaseGianmarco TognazziPietro GenuardiAlthough the drug is present in this film, the Crack this movie is about is, metaphorically, the crack in society which all the protagonists inhabit in a rundown neighborhood in Rome.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsGiulio ScarpatiMargherita BuyRoberto CitranMarco works as an accountant in his family car hiring agency; when his brother disappears, he begins a journey through Italy searching for him together with Elena, who has been his brother's girlfriend.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGiuliana de SioJulian SandsErland JosephsonA young doctor of psychiatry attempts to find out why a young Italian woman has become schizophrenic. A scandal ensues as he begins to investigate her sexual past.
- DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsClaudia CardinaleBruno CremerKarl ZinnyIn Milan, Elena is a widow and has to raise alone her two children, Martina and Sandro. When she learns that her son is addicted, she tries to get him out of the hell of drugs.
- DirectorAlessandro BenvenutiStarsAthina CenciIlaria OcchiniCarlo MonniThe film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lunch, Unexpected Pregnancy, The Videotape and Epilogue.
- DirectorFrancesco BarilliGiuseppe BertolucciMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsPhilippe NoiretOrnella MutiBruno GanzA collection of tales set on the Adriatic coast.
- DirectorGiovanna GagliardoStarsChristine BoissonEnnio FantastichiniFiorenza MarchegianiOn June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsMarianne SägebrechtMichel PiccoliKlaus GrünbergA child meets his uncle, a Czech Jew living in the south of Germany in the days before the 2nd world war. Without taking care of social prejudices, the uncle marries Martha, his servant. When the Nazis come to the power the young and the couple move to Prague. Then is Martha who defends her marriage to a Jew against the society. Finally, the man manages to force the separation to save Martha from finishing in a concentration camp with him.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsArturo MalyMartin KalwillJacqueline LustigHarvey Logan (Arturo Maly) lives with his two children, Juan and Eva, in a beautiful but cold and desolate land in the extreme south of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego. One day an English businessman arrives with the idea of turning that land into a tourist area. But Harvey is not so keen on turning his home into a tourist attraction. He surrounds his ranch with a wire fence and locks himself in with his children to stand up to the corporation. It's an especially tough situation for teenage daughter Eva Logan (Jacqueline Lustig) as he thwarts any chance of finding a boy to fall in love with.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsAsia ArgentoCarlotta NatoliClaudia PandolfiFifteen-year-old Simona has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Simona is a victim of incest.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsWilliam HurtSolveig DommartinPietro FalconeIn 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsPenélope CruzStefania SandrelliAnna GalienaWhen a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääEvelyne DidiAndré WilmsThree struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.
- DirectorLuciano ManuzziStarsStefano DionisiIsabelle PascoFrancesco BarilliSaturday night in Rimini. Roberto is losing at poker, and he ignores his young Parisian girlfriend, Danielle. She leaves, asking Ricky, a mechanic and friend of Roberto's, to take her to the airport. She then goes to great lengths to get Ricky's romantic attention. Two kids, meanwhile, hire Marina, a stripper, to perform at an abandoned house for their school mates who pay for the show. Some mothers break it up, and Marina and the kids head into the night to escape police. Two young men, Nicola and Enzo, have come to town to find Nicola's ex-girlfriend, who wants nothing to do with them. At a club, they pick up two drugged-out women. The three groups are set to collide.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsPaolo VillaggioIsa DanieliGigio MorraA teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and his students' family problems.
- DirectorEnzo DecaroStarsEnzo DecaroAnna CamporiIaia ForteIn a condominium located in one of the many districts of the city of Naples, the events of the various residents of the respective apartments and of the people who perform their own duties take place there. Alternating, each of them realizes that happiness or sadness is only today; the title of the film in fact takes its cue from the factor that we tend to want to "steal" the possible happiness of the next day, hoping that it will be better than the one just passed; even if most of the time, however, it is only an illusion.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneSergio RubiniFrancesca NeriThree siblings are searching for their father and maybe for themselves.
- DirectorGianpaolo TescariStarsNancy BrilliGiulio ScarpatiClaudio BigagliSarah's marriage turned from happiness into a nightmare. One month into the ceremony, she begins to receive threatening phone calls with intimate details of her sexual relations.
- DirectorPappi CorsicatoStarsIaia ForteCristina DonadioCiro PiscopoThree episodes: In Napoli Aurora is abandoned by her husband and rekindles her relationship with a former lover. Exconvict Sebastiano learns that his mother is a trans woman. Libera gathers video evidence to prove her husband's infidelity.
- DirectorWilma LabateStarsLucio AlloccaFrancesca AntonelliMario Christian BoimondA woman wants to enter the Naval Academy during the sixties and become a sailor. She has to fight her family, her friends and a world not ready to accept her.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioCarlo CecchiValérie KapriskyYoung lawyer Bernardo returns home to discover that a man has committed suicide by jumping through a window of his house. His wife Maria says that she admitted the unknown man because he said that the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo starts to investigate about the man and the reasons for his suicide.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsHugh GrantKristin Scott ThomasEmmanuelle SeignerAfter hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsSergio RubiniMargherita BuyValeria Bruni TedeschiA man suffering from pre-wedding nerves gets his wish granted for a double life. Whilst asleep one night he splits into two. One half stays happily married, and the other has affairs with a television presenter and a homicidal teenager.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsKeanu ReevesBridget FondaRuocheng YingAfter the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children - one American and two Nepalese - who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsPaolo VillaggioMilena VukoticAnna MazzamauroOne by one, Ugo's colleagues have been leaving this life to go to a better one. While Ugo is attending one of the many funerals, he and the priest are involved in an accident, and the doctor announces that Ugo has only one week left to live.
- StarsHenry ArnoldSalome KammerFrank RöthHermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsSabina GuzzantiBlanca Rosa Blanco
- DirectorMario BrentaStarsMarco PaulettiDuilio FontanaCarlo CaserottiA man and a woman meet an elf, whose name is Barnabo, and who knows the secret.
- DirectorEnzo MonteleoneStarsAlessandro HaberIvan AccardiAlessandra AcciaiAntonio Hutter (Haber's alter ego) is on a stage and recalls his life dominated by his only great wish:to be an actor. So he tells about his childhood in Israel, his youth in Verona, his first roles in Franco Rossi's Eneide Taviani's Sotto il segno dello scorpione, his encounter with Orson Welles (never happened in reality), a role in Bertolucci's Il Conformista, later cut in the editing room his love story with Giuliana DeSio and a phone call (a fake one) for a role in Scorsese's Raging Bull. Now Antonio is on the brink of suicide:he's alone on the stage, there is no audience....but suddenly he gets a phone call from Hollywood.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsStefania SandrelliMarco MesseriDebora CaprioglioPietro is the sensitive son of Domenico, a gruff father. Pietro falls in love with a beautiful girl, Ghisola, who lives with her grandparents.
- DirectorPiero NatoliStarsPiero NatoliJoanna ChattonPier Francesco AielloThe story of an Italian director who cannot break through and blames Hollywood.
- DirectorMassimo MartellaStarsVincenzo SalemmeCarlotta NatoliArturo PagliaIn Terni during a hot summer, Matteo gives private lessons to Elsa and Giulio. The three of them soon become friends but Matteo and Giulio also become love rivals.
- DirectorGianfrancesco LazottiStarsGiorgio AlbertazziPaolo BonacelliLando BuzzancaA man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?
- DirectorRenzo MartinelliStarsKim EngelbrechtGiulio BrogiCiro EspositoInspired by the true story of Sarah Gadalla Gubara. In Namibia, Africa, Gershe, a reporter whose car has broken down, is almost killed by a passing ambulance. After following it into the hospital, he witnesses the drama of two Indian immigrants, Vernon and Karima, whose little daughter Sarah, will remain limping for life. Ten years later, Sarah has turned into an excellent swimmer. After she wins second place in the school trials in Cape Town, her parents decides to look for a trainer. Sarah's life crosses paths again with Gershe, the reporter, who was a swimming instructor in the past. Although initially skeptical, he finally agrees to train the young Sara. Sara find a new friend, Ciro, who takes care of the reporter and run the car repair shop he inherited from his own father after his death. In time of the most important national trial, Sara's father, Vernon, was killed in a robbery attempt. Sarah succeed in turning her dream into reality: participating in the Italian, Capri-Napoli marathon, a swimming race of 35km in open seas.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsWallace ShawnPhoebe BrandGeorge GaynesNew York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsSalvatore GattusoPippo AgustaSalvatore SchieraSet in apocalyptic Palermo peopled by ignorant, inbred, flatulent gluttons and deformed Mafiosi, a dark comedy which centers on a poor family of three-middle aged brothers who are coerced, by local Mafia honchos, into hiding a mysterious old man known as the Uncle from Brooklyn in their home.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsMarco AdamoDaniel AlegiAlessandro AnzillottiThe "adventures" of a group of teenagers in a suburb of Rome. Fifteen-year-old Lorenzo makes up a tall story about one of their friends who, according to him, is dying of cancer. The other kids, touched by the awful lot of their pal, decide to send a prostitute to his place so that he can sleep with a woman before kicking the bucket. Two years and a half later, the "vitelloni" have grown up but have they grown wiser?
- DirectorStefano IncertiStarsAntonino IuorioRoberto De FrancescoElodie TreccaniThe portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, which is told in flashback.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMargherita BuyLello ArenaTigana CamaraThe life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.
- DirectorLeone PompucciStarsPaolo VillaggioDiego AbatantuonoMarco MesseriFour waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. One day the old owner sells the restaurant to a wealthy industrialist who must decided whether to keep it or turn it into a furniture showroom. During a luncheon for the new owner, the waiters must prove their worth to save their jobs.
- DirectorFelice FarinaStarsAngela FinocchiaroGiuseppe CedernaGioele DixAn eight-member crew mans a 20-metre yacht involved in a strange mission off the coast of Turkey. The memories of the captain, Giuseppe bring back to life the events that preceded their voyage. These include his separation from his wife, his work as a journalist and his move into a new apartment shared with young carabiniere officer Riccardo. Purely by chance, their lives are disrupted by the arrival of Sandra, the upstairs tenant in their building. A simple secretary Sandra is somehow involved with Giulivi, the arrogant undersecretary for the environment who has his finger in a multitude of different pies. One of his pursuits is the acquisition of "Rete Blu", the small independent TV network where Giuseppe works. Major suspicions have been aroused regarding Nautilus, the company where Sandra is employed, which is believed to be involved in some shady business with the dumping of toxic waste. Giuseppe is the right man to recover a computer disk containing the complete truth. Momentarily lost in the lining of Riccardo's uniform the disk is retrieved by Sandra without his knowledge. She disappears with it to Switzerland and returns a rich woman, having emptied Giulivi's illicit bank accounts. Pursued by the undersecretary's armed henchmen the trio makes a hasty escape. What is to be done with the money? Enjoying it, as Sandra suggests or giving it to the Authority like Giuseppe says? At the end, there is another solution as well.
- DirectorYves AngeloStarsGérard DepardieuFanny ArdantFabrice LuchiniColonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.
- DirectorClare PeploeStarsBridget FondaRussell CroweJim BroadbentSet in the 1950s, Rough Magic tells the story of what happens when a pretty apprentice magician goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé, a wealthy politician, and to find a Mayan shaman who will teach her ancient principles of magic. She is being trailed by a detective hired by her fiancé. He's a former photojournalist traumatized by what he saw in Hiroshima. The photojournalist joins her in the search for the Mayan shaman, and falls in love with her; the feeling is not reciprocated. When she finds the shaman, she drinks a potion which empowers her to do magic. The potion has life-changing effects on her and her relationship with her companion. They have strange experiences which are brought about by magic.
- DirectorAlessandro BenvenutiStarsAlessandro BenvenutiFrancesca NeriDavide BechiniIvo, a troubled forty-year old man, keen on solving puzzles has just recovered from a mental illness. He goes back to his hometown where he meets Sara, who wants to help him at all costs. He falls in love with her and in order to keep seeing her he agrees to go and live with four people with mental problems with whom he sets up a kind of misfits community.
- DirectorBilly CrystalStarsBilly CrystalDebra WingerJoe MantegnaMickey, an NBA referee, meets Ellen, an American airline official, in Paris. It develops into a relationship of ups and downs.
- DirectorMassimo GuglielmiStarsGiulio ScarpatiAgnese NanoGianmarco TognazziSummer 1966. A young man from southern Italy and elementary school teacher in a small town in Abruzzo, is studying for state exams to qualify for a permanent job. He is separated from his wife, a young woman from the Po Valley in northern Italy, with whom he has two small children. The problem is not that they don't love each other. The problem is their families, who come from radically different cultures and traditions and who have been waging a subtle war since before the wedding. He is now living in a small rented room in the south, she is in her parents large country manor in the Po Valley. When he decides to take back the two children, he stages an armed kidnapping. Then he makes the long trip down through Italy in a Volkswagen beetle, heading for his parents house in a beautiful corner of the Salentina peninsula. When his telegram arrives, announcing his arrival with the children, his mother gets to work, preparing lunch, more a banquet than a lunch. The highway police stop the Volkswagen a few kilometers from the house. The teacher is arrested and taken away by the police.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsMarisa ParedesJuan EchanoveCarme EliasLeo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsKristin Scott ThomasClaudiu BleontOlga TudoracheRomania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a dark and dangerous outpost on the frontier between Bulgaria and Romania where their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
- DirectorMassimo SpanoStarsJean-Marc BarrMassimo DapportoThomas KretschmannA young recruit to the Italian army (Albanese) discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer (Barr) and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.
- DirectorSergio CittiStarsSilvio OrlandoPatrick BauchauRolf ZacherThree tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsLászló BaloghÉric BergerMarc BermanThe film celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema. It presents the technical and artistic evolution of the motion pictures. We move from mute to sound, from black-and-white to color, through various genres and styles. All the aspects are taken into consideration: the historical context, the fashion, the star system and the unhappy ending to watching films in movie theaters.
- DirectorUgo ChitiStarsAlessandro BenvenutiClaudio BisioDebora CaprioglioIn a small village in Tuscany, in 1939, all the people are looking forward for Mussolini's official visit. The Duce will inaugurate the village's primary school. Unexspectedly the corpse of a murdered baby is found. All the inhabitants will do their best to delay the visit and hide the murder.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsMassimo BoldiIsabelle PascoGianni Cavina
- DirectorRoberto CimpanelliStarsCecilia DazziCarlotta NatoliPaola Tiziana CrucianiFilm about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.
- DirectorDuccio CameriniStarsNancy BrilliAntonello FassariLeo GullottaMargherita and Riccardo have been together for a long time and have grown tired of each other. Riccardo meets another girl and starts a relationship with her while Margherita happens to have a dummy in the front seat of her car which is mistaken for a lover of hers. She decides to exploit the situation.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroVal KilmerA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
- DirectorFranco PiavoliStarsPatrizio GirardiEmanuela CobelliLaura CarnevaliSemi-documentary without comment portraying Castellaro Lagusello, a small town in Northern Italy.
- DirectorJean-Paul RappeneauStarsOlivier MartinezJuliette BinochePierre ArditiIn a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsCarlo CecchiStefano DionisiArnaldo NinchiA seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest was excommunicated for experimenting with the black arts. And soon Giacomo wishes they'd never met.
- DirectorLaurence Ferreira BarbosaStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiMelvil PoupaudMarc CittiAfter hitting her head, a woman has to face living in a mental institution for a period of time.
- DirectorFranco BerniniStarsFrancesca NeriClaudio AmendolaEnzo DecaroDr. Martinelli is a young psychoanalyst who is treating Dario Campisi, and a surprising truth emerges from the latter's stories during psychoanalytic sessions.
- DirectorEugenio CappuccioMassimo GaudiosoFabio NunziataStarsEugenio CappuccioMassimo GaudiosoFabio NunziataThe production company Boccia Film is in serious crisis: it has only one film magazine and Fabio, the owner, wants at all costs to make a short film.
- DirectorAntonio AlbaneseStarsAntonio AlbaneseValeria MililloAntonio PetrocelliAntonio takes a hit on his head when he's out to buy a jar of mushrooms for his wife, and loses his memory. He reappears five years later unaware that time has passed.
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsValerio MastandreaCaterina CaselliBenedetta MazziniWalter is 20. He hasn't got a job, a girlfriend or any clear convictions. He rejects conventional values, notably his father's submissive acceptance of a life working in a factory as well as a social life, including sex (he is, self-consciously, a virgin). An on-and-off philosophy student, he'd like to be a committed nihilist but is too insecure. 'All Fall Down' paints a picture of Walter as he weakly tries to find his independence.
- DirectorFabio CarpiStarsClaude RichValeria CavalliGrégoire Colin
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsLiberto RabalFrancesca NeriJavier BardemAfter leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...
- DirectorSergio RossiStarsAntonella PonzianiFranco NeroTresy TaddeiTurin 1953. Lidia is a war widow with a ten year old daughter, Anna. She works in a factory, where does political work for the Communist Party.
- DirectorAntonio CapuanoPappi CorsicatoAntonietta De LilloStarsAnna BonaiutoIaia ForteEnzo MoscatoA fisherman who lives in the Rione Terra of Pozzuoli, catches a polyp that at night is transformed into a sensuous woman. An odd black prince who claims to be the brother of the unfortunate woman tells the fisherman about the sad fate to which she has been condemned by a magic spell. But the polyp, which has taken lodging in a tub and at night visits Toritore's bed, in spite of it all will ultimately meet her fate in a frying-pan.
- DirectorSandro BaldoniStarsEnnio FantastichiniIvano MarescottiSilvia CohenAn advertising agency plans to launch a campaign for a dog food which is actually part of a plot to recycle ruined and verminous meat.
- DirectorClaudio BoniventoStarsClaudio AmendolaEnnio FantastichiniVeronica PivettiIn 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of the Milanese underworld. Of Sicilian origin, at the beginning, as happened to many other immigrants, he went through misery, exploitation, social frustration. But Michele is a rebel, and begins to act on his own: small robberies, unclean business and then drugs. One day he saves the life of Loris Corbi, recognized leader of the Milanese gangsters, and is repaid, managing to make the decisive leap in the sector of illegal gambling dens.
- DirectorFranco GiraldiStarsRaoul BovaMarco LeonardiOmero AntonuttiEmidio Orlich is an officer in the Austrian army. Despite his Croatian origins and his role in the Austrian army, he was raised as an Italian. The young man, who has fallen for a widow, is accused of being a traitor. The consequences will be as intense as the relationship between Italy and the Balkans has always been.