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Mario and Luigi are two Italian American plumber brothers. They have recently set up on their own leaving another company and have launched their business with a really cringe TV commercial, but one that mom really likes. When Brooklyn floods due to a breakdown, the two venture into the sewer system and… get sucked down a pipe to a magical kingdom. On the way they are separated and while Luigi ends up in a dark place dominated by warrior turtles and skeletons, Mario arrives instead in a magical kingdom populated by adorable little mushrooms, with a human princess with a mysterious past...

On October 5, 2017, the “New York Times” published the investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey into the sex crimes of Harvey Weinstein, film producer and serial predator, found guilty in 2020 and sentenced to twenty-three years in prison. For three decades the founder of Miramax abused actresses and assistants, deciding their fates like a vulgar torturer. Willing to go to the end of the world for a testimony, the two journalists, multitasking champions, reconstruct the strategy used by Weinstein to cover up his abuses: reducing his victims to silence with big checks and inextricable confidentiality agreements...

Anna (Kristen Bell) is a woman who has reached her limit: depressed and addicted to alcohol to overcome the pain of losing her daughter, eaten by a cannibal serial killer. Her little girl had in fact gone with her father (Michael Ealy), an FBI profiler, on “take your daughter to work” day and, in a moment of distraction, she was left alone in the same room with a notorious killer. In her desperation, accompanied by the breakup with her husband, after three years of alcohol and psychopharmaceuticals, Anna begins to obsess over the lives of others, and in particular that of her new neighbor, Neil (Tom Riley), a widower with a dependent child...

An English war nurse is sent to the Irish Midlands to look after a little girl who hasn’t eaten for four months...

A teenager is thrilled that her mother is going on a vacation to Colombia with her boyfriend, so they can leave her at home alone. The initial happiness, however, will fail when the young woman realizes that the two seem to have completely disappeared into thin air...

Margate, 1981. Hard times for Great Britain, plunged into recession and shaken by endemic racism. Cinema is the only way out. Towering like a beacon along the English coast, the Empire shines with a thousand lights and points the way for willing spectators. Forced to close two of its four screens, this stately cinema in decline is run by Mr. Ellis, elegant only in the title. The soul of her business is Hilary, a conscientious secretary, dedicated to her profession and attentive to her ’employees’, directed like a family. She broke out of a nervous breakdown, she is slowly returning to life. Hilary navigates between projections, which she never attends due to excess of zeal, and a toxic relationship with Ellis, who ‘abuses’ her unhappiness for her. But to change things comes Stephen, a young black boy who immediately empathizes with Hilary. With blows of detached tickets, Hilary and Stephen approach each other, tenderly, passionately...

Eric and Andrew are the two happy dads of little Wen, insightful far beyond her tender age. Tired of suffering acts of homophobic bigotry, they retreat to a cottage in the woods to enjoy some peace. One day four strangers, led by the gigantic Leonard, knock on their door...

A group of girlfriends has made it a lifelong mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady...

Otto Anderson, recently widowed, is a rigid man and unable to relate to others. He takes it out on any person who doesn’t follow the regulations to the letter. When someone enters the private area without permission by car where his apartment is, or does not separate waste collection correctly, he will take care of pointing it out to them. In fact, every day he organizes a patrol to check if there is something wrong. In addition, he has never recovered from the death of his wife Sonya to whom he was very close and plans to commit suicide on more than one occasion. His existence is suddenly enlivened by the arrival of Marisol and her husband who have rented a house across from him...

Mike Lane is again without money, work and affection. He’s not even “Magic” anymore, since he hasn’t danced in a while. Now he is a barman here and there, and at a charity party where he mixes cocktails he is recognized by Kim, a girl who ten years earlier at her initiation party in a university fraternity used the services of Mike and the Kings of Tampa. Kim reveals the past of the bartender-stripper to her boss, Maxandra Mendoza, a multi-billionaire in the air of legal disputes and divorce with her English media mogul husband...