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In 1979 Texas, run-down producer Wayne intends to make a porn film to sort out his troubled finances. With him, in the van directed to the place chosen for the filming, there is an equally shabby group: the actresses Maxine (Wayne’s girlfriend) and Bobby-Lynne, the ex-marine actor Jackson, the director RJ (who doesn’t hide his authorial ambitions) and his shy girlfriend Lorraine, who acts as his assistant. The journey ends on the isolated farm of the elderly and grumpy Howard, from whom Wayne has rented a rather shabby outbuilding which, unbeknownst to the old man, will be the set of the porno, entitled The Farmer’s Daughters. Everything seems perfect and the crew is full of enthusiasm as filming begins...

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The Lost City

Widow of an archaeologist and specialized in the same subject, Loretta however finds fortune elsewhere, as a writer of adventure romance novels. At the umpteenth book, however, she is in a crisis of inspiration and her promotional tour alongside the model of her covers, Alan, true idol of her fans, appears unbearably humiliating. So she decides to drop everything, but she ends up kidnapped by the scion of a rich family in search of a lost treasure...

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Operation Mincemeat

London, 1943. Officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, members of MI5 who are developing an effective counter-espionage system (Double Cross) during the war, devise an improbable and ingenious plan to deceive the Nazis and make them believe that the allies will land in Greece instead of in Sicily. The ploy consists in letting the corpse of Major William Martin drift adrift near the Spanish coast, provided with a file of information proving his existence and the false invasion plan. The major in question is actually a poor devil who died poisoned and ‘lent’ to his homeland who invents a new identity for him. Leading the Mincemeat operation, with Montagu and Cholmondeley, are also Ian Fleming, James Bond’s father, and Jean Leslie, secret service secretary who inspires the romance of William Martin and falls madly in love with the two officers...

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Avatar – The Way of Water

After the victory over the human invaders, the Na’vi have lived in peace. With them were some terrestrial scientists together with their avatars and a boy too young to be sent back to Earth. Named Spider and son of the late Colonel Quaritch, he grew up with the family of Jake Sully, who has three natural children: the eldest Neteyam, the rebel Lo’ak and the little Tuk. Furthermore Jake and Neytiri have adopted Kiri, daughter of the avatar of Augustine Grace and of unknown father, with a supernatural connection with Eywa, the great mother of Pandora. The Earth is in worse and worse conditions and Pandora could be a new home for humans, who return to the planet more warlike than ever, this time also with avatar soldiers – including a “new” Colonel Quaritch, i.e. a Na’vi body inhabited by a backup of his consciousness...

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Babylon

In 1920s Hollywood, silent cinema was at its technical peak, but was about to be supplanted by the advent of sound. Jack Conrad is a star known for his wild parties, while Nellie LaRoy and Manny Torres are two young people in search of success: she soon becomes an actress while he struggles as a production assistant. Inspired by the title of the famous book by Kenneth Anger Hollywood Babylon, the new invigorating film by Damien Chazelle tells with great deployment of means the rise and fall of its heroes, in a corrupt and promiscuous world but also full of great creative energy...

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The Whale

After the accidental separation from her family, the baby orca Luna unexpectedly befriends the people of a fjord called Nootka Sound...

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I Wanna Dance with Somebody

The extraordinary career of Whitney Houston, nicknamed The Voice (like Frank Sinatra) as “the greatest voice of her generation”, and “most awarded singer in history”, unfolds from the beginning with her mother Cissy and aunt Dionne Warwick, passing through the impressive series of hits when she was still a girl, the film debut in Bodyguard, the unhappy marriage with the singer Bobby Brown, the chat friendship with Robyn Crawford and the past with drugs and alcohol...

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Ambulance

Decorated war veteran Will Sharp is desperate for money because his wife is suffering from cancer and needs urgent experimental surgery that costs more than $230,000. He enlists the help of Danny, his adoptive brother, who, to help him, proposes a $32 million bank robbery, the largest in the history of Los Angeles...

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Don’t Worry Darling

In 1950s America, Alice and Jack are married and beaming. With other happy couples they ‘cultivated’ the Californian desert and integrated the experimental community of Victory, a charming industrial town that houses the staff employed in a top-secret project. But that perfect place soon turns into a nightmare for Alice, who has broken the harmony by breaking the rules and going beyond the limits granted to her wives...

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Fall

They can be A or B series productions, have a cast of stars or actors on the launch pad, decline in sub/macro genres such as horror or disaster movies, but the premise must always be the same – an idea that stories in a breath and capable of provoking an explosion of curiosity. As in Fall: two free climbers trapped 610 meters high on an abandoned communications tower...

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