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The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul, a simple farmer, who with God's help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. Not trustful enough of divine wisdom, he acts of his own accord and thus sins against the Lord. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, tending sheep in the fields, when, secretly Samuel oints him as the next king of the Israelites. When David - as courageous as he is intelligent - emerges victorious from his encounter with Goliath, the Philistines' most powerful warrior, he becomes a hero. His fame arouses the jealousy of King Saul, who senses that David is going to dispute his right to be king - and tries to kill him. David flees from Saul, and finds many supporters and loyal companions who believe that he is destined to be king. In exile, David waits for his time to come, since he does not want to take the place of Saul by violence. He is young and in the prime of his strength, while King Saul is a broken man. When Saul falls upon his sword after losing a battle, David's hour is at hand. The new King David conquers Jerusalem. The magnificent city is to become the royal residence for the glorious hero, who now plans to leave the business of war to others in future and to become a King of Peace. However, this temperamental man, with so many years of battle behind him and still in the bloom of youth, is not predestined for a quiet, orderly life at all. Very soon he plunges into an illicit love affair with Bathsheba, a married woman - an affair that threatens to become the king's undoing when it turns out that she is expecting his child. To conceal his adulterous fatherhood, the king sends Bathsheba's husband Uriah - one of his best and most loyal soldiers - to his death, and then marries her. The prophet and royal adviser Nathan announces to David that his act will result in divine punishment: the Lord will not countenance such an outrage. Violence and evil will continue in David's own family and bring disaster upon the heads of the numerous sons born to David from his wives and concubines. Then the child of David and Bathsheba dies. She gives him another son, Solomon, but very soon David suffers another sharp blow of fate: his grown-up son Absalom kills one of his brothers for the latter's rape of his sister. David is far too mild in response to this: not only does he fail to bring the incestuous seducer to justice, he also leaves the fratricide unpunished. The king does not realise that he is gradually losing control over his family, and that his hold on the people is also growing weaker. For David is obsessed with his plan of building the finest and largest temple in the world in Jerusalem. He demands immense sums from the populace for this project, even though God has commanded him to leave the completion of the building to his successors. David's ambitious son Absalom thus finds it very easy to drum up support for a conspiracy against his father. After a fierce battle, culminating in Absalom's death, David makes it back to Jerusalem.

Roma. Lui, Claudio Romano, è un promettente avvocato di buona famiglia, che lavora in uno degli studi più affermati della città, e sembra destinato a una brillante carriera e a sposare la figlia del titolare. La sua vita comincia a cambiare il giorno in cui si imbatte in un caso completamente estraneo al suo mondo professionale: la difesa d'ufficio di un adolescente "difficile". Ciro, accusato di omicidio. E' la riscoperta di un mondo che aveva più o meno consciamente messo da parte per coltivare l'affermazione professionale e l'ascesa sociale, ma che risponde ai suoi veri ideali di legge e di giustizia. Lei, Giulia Pisano, è un commissario di polizia, dal passato difficile di ragazza senza famiglia, cresciuta in istituto e salvata appena in tempo da un poliziotto ora capo della Squadra Mobile, il vicequestore Aldo Ricci, che ora è anche il suo uomo. Istintiva, avversa ai compromessi, determinata, talora anche scontrosa, Giulia si butta a capofitto nei casi di cui si occupa. Assegnata contro la sua volontà a casi in cui sono coinvolti dei minori, la giovane commissaria scoprirà, grazie anche all'intesa - professionale, umana e affettiva - con l'avvocato Romano, che quella è la sua vera strada. Diversi per estrazione sociale, carattere, passato, Giulia e Claudio si trovano a lavorare fianco a fianco dapprima scontrandosi, poi a poco a poco scoprendosi complementari. Il loro è un sentimento che cresce nel tempo e si approfondisce anche in seguito alla morte di Aldo Ricci, ucciso da una banda. E poi Ciro. Quattordici anni, una vita di espedienti. L'incontro con Claudio, è folgorante. Si aggrappa a lui e non lo molla più. Claudio, che con i bambini ci sa fare, ne chiederà l'affidamento temporaneo, quando la madre di Ciro sarà condannata per spaccio di droga.

Italians celebrate New Year's Eve different ways - getting high, cheat on a wife, revenge, spy on a cute naked neighbor, suicide attempt, hire a gigolo or call girl, have a party, crash one etc.

The title deliberatly recalls the famous L'oro di Napoli (Napoli's Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica's film here Naples is the real protagonist: Naples and its dust, not its gold. Through five episodes expressing different aspects of Naples, we have a picture of the town that doesn't belong to the postcard stereotypes... Story 1. Four friends play a card game "scopa"; two of them keep losing and at the end they lose themselves. Story 2. Teresa and Gigino, a young couple, wander in town while quarrelling. Finally they make peace and decide to get married at the Church of Carmine, just the two of them. Story 3. Two Argentinean tourists of Italian origin come to visit the archaeological site of Pompei but they find it closed owing to a strike. They manage to convince the custodian to let them in. The three establish a sort of complicity... Story 4. Mimmo Pezzella, whose idol actor is Richard Gere, wants to become an actor himself and to be able to participate to a "general", asks a widow Lit. 300,000 even threatening her to obtain what he wants... Story 5. Ciarli and Gerri are sax players at wedding parties. When finally they are invited to perform at a jazz festival, they find out that their saxes have been stolen. Obliged, nevertheless, to go onto the stage, they obtain a great success thanks to a comic sketch they manage to improvise...

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.

A little girl gets hurt by her mother's syringe. Her teenage half-brother tries to get her to get an HIV and hepatitis tests without their parents' knowledge, which causes more trouble.

Domenico and Constance, now elderly and childless, they want to sell the bare ownership of the building in which they live to a young couple. To convince them, with the help of the door, they present themselves as seriously ill.

In the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching.

Matteo is a twenty-year-old who is impulsive and hardly committed to his studies. He and Margherita fall in love. She is a young, strong Slavic woman who is older than him and who has already taken her place in the world of work. However, Matteo's insecurity ruins this potentially very beautiful love story. His jealousy transforms itself into a morbid obsession. Things are getting worse and worse at school too. Is everything sliding down towards a tragic epilogue?

On the outskirts of a subterranean metropolis marked by colorful murals, a black boy is injured and then burned in the arson of the social center that housed him.

Marco is a cultivated and intelligent priest. The death of his spiritual "foster father" places him in a difficult situation: not only does he have to take over the latter's old parish, he also has to continue the late priest's work as a chaplain in the local prison. For the first time in his life, Don Marco is confronted by those living on the fringes of society. Soon little Picchio, an orphan, is his constantly cheerful companion. Marco helps his "new flock" wherever he can, because the prisoners not only have their own tragic situations to cope with but also whole families with serious problems. One day Marco meets Maria, the daughter of one of the prisoners, who has become a prostitute in order to pay her father's legal costs. When the young girl falls in love with him, the priest is put to a severe test. After a great deal of inner strife, Marco finally decides that his job as a priest should come first.

Episode movies with stories about a volunteer and relief association.

Maia, the young princess of Jarma, and Gabriel Barthes, the son of a French advisor to her King fall in love, but the murder of Mara's brother brings everything to the abyss.

The cockeyed attempts to find a job carried out by a group of long term-unemployed guys who live together with a poor retired man.

This story starts in Italy very briefly, a young soccer player mother dies and the boy is forced to live in North America with Friends of the Mother. Burt Young is the Coach of the local team which help the young boy along while he deals with adjusting to a new country and getting scouted for a pro team.

After a plane crashes a western woman is found by two inhabitants in the middle of the desert. Unable to communicate with the two men and traumatized by the accident, the woman accepts her estranged new life.