The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto 2022 ( 7)

One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.

I vespri siciliani 2010

Part of Tutto Verdi series 'I vespri siciliani' ('The Sicilian Vespers') is a five-act Italian opera originally written in French for the Paris Opéra and translated into Italian shortly after its premiere in June 1855. Under its original title, 'Les vêpres siciliennes', the libretto was prepared by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier from their work 'Le duc d'Albe', which was written in 1838 and offered to Halévy and Donizetti before Verdi agreed to set it to music in 1854. The story is loosely based on a historical event, the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, using material drawn from the medieval Sicilian tract 'Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia'.

The ROH Live: Rigoletto 2017

Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda, it seems the curse is taking effect… Rigoletto arranges to have the Duke assassinated. But Gilda still loves the womanizing Duke and sacrifices herself in his place. Rigoletto eagerly uncovers the corpse only to find instead his fatally wounded daughter, who dies in his arms.

The Whipping Boy 1994 ( 6.5)

A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he runs away with the whipping boy to escape from his first spanking. After being in the real world his life will change making him a prince fit to rule.

Eisenstein 2000 ( 5.5)

A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

In Denial of Murder 2004 ( 6)

Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.

Blood Monkey 2007 ( 5.6)

Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.

N/A N/A ( 3.8)

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

Isolation 2015 ( 4)

In a shelter, two men face isolation and paranoia, while the whole outside world and society seem to have disappeared.

N/A N/A ( 6.539)

Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.

Not for the Young 2017 ( 6)

Frustrated with their lack of upward mobility, some young Italians move to Cuba to start a wi-fi café and attempt to build a new life.

The Wait 2015 ( 6.296)

In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna’s son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Guiseppe is not yet there...

Tutte le mie notti 2019 ( 5.1)

On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge with Veronica, but does not know that the woman is the lawyer of an important industrialist, the alleged murderer.

N/A N/A ( 5.531)

Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. Guiding Light stands as the third longest-running program in all of broadcast history; only the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen and the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry have been on the air longer. On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009.

Palombella rossa 1989 ( 7.152)

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

War 2019 ( 6.8)

Khalid, entrusted with the task of eliminating former soldier turned rogue Kabir, engages in an epic battle with his mentor who taught him everything.

Il grande salto 2019 ( 5.1)

Nello and Rufetto are life long friends, and also a team of criminals who dream to make the big shot and set themselves for live, being punished with bad luck.

I nostri ieri 2023 ( 8)

All Star - Ritorno al cinema 2021 ( 7.6)

A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Tutto in una Notte 2015 ( 8)

Sfashion 2017 ( 4.3)

Evelyn is the CEO of a Major fashion brand and is an honest and sweet woman. Evelyn loves his job and his company, but the global crisis is coming. What is it like going bankrupt? How it feels to be at the head of a family business? SFashion is an Horror-Drama about doing business in Europe.

Beckett 2021 ( 6.202)

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

N/A N/A ( 5.8)

A group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet.

Feeling Fine 2021

Sara and Cameron, an interracial couple & pair of struggling actors, refuse to quit their shared Meisner class after they break up & deal with grief, closure & reminiscing their connection in this short that both honours and pokes fun at the experience of heartbreak.

La sottile zona rossa 2021

N/A N/A

Bypass - Quale futuro? 2022

NYsferatu - Symphony of a Century 2017

Robespierre N/A

Robespierre is a hand-drawn animation originally created in 2007 by Italian artist, Andrea Mastrovito. Through a series of refined graphite self-portraits, the artist comes to life and is liberated from the paper page.

I've Just Had a Dream 2014 ( 8)

Two little girls from different backgrounds have a seemingly similar dream. However, one is a nightmare and the other is a beautiful dream. It all depends on your point of view.

Fortezza Bastiani 2002 ( 8.2)

Five young men wait for something at the end of their teenage towards maturity.

Tutto l'amore del mondo 2010 ( 6)

Four friends to the discovery of the most fun and romantic of Europe: Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Scotland. A road trip that will bring our protagonists to know each other better and to fall in love.

The Goodbye Kiss 2006 ( 6.845)

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...