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Tokyo, today. Hirayama is a sixty-year-old Japanese man who cleans the city’s public toilets with meticulous attention to detail and painstaking dedication to his work. Every day he follows the same routine: careful personal cleaning before and after cleaning other people’s bathrooms, watering the plants that he saved from the city’s carelessness, a sandwich in the park at lunchtime. Along his route he sometimes stops to observe the plants above him, taking photos of the foliage, or has a snack at some diner. And every now and then he has some encounters: with Takashi, the boy who takes over the afternoon shift of cleaning the bathrooms, with a girl in the park, with a homeless man disconnected from reality, with the owner of a restaurant who gives him small preferential treatments...

1942. Sara is fifteen years old and lives in Alsace, that is, in unoccupied France. However, the German presence gradually becomes stronger and the raids begin. She will be saved by the family of Julien, a boy suffering from polio, whom she previously kept at a distance...

Modena, 1957. Twelve years after the end of the war, Enzo Ferrari, a former racing driver mourning the recent death of his son Dino, manages his car company with his wife Laura and lives in secret with his lover Lina, mother of illegitimate son Piero. Obsessed with the competitiveness of his cars in speed races, Enzo pushes his drivers to put their lives at risk in order to prevail, while the need to financially support the company forces him to renegotiate his collaboration with his wife...

The Von Erech family of wrestlers had enormous success in the Wrestling circuit of the 80s, making famous the move called Iron Claw (which in fact gives the original title to the film), i.e. a headlock with pressure on different points of the skull. But the family is also marked by bad luck and, above all, by highly competitive and toxic relationships, which several of patriarch Frizt’s children end up not surviving. Canadian Sean Durkin’s film made a lot of headlines for the physical transformation he subjected his actors to, who were naturally forced to achieve the power of a wrestler...

Based on an incredible true story...

Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) seem like the perfect couple, but after a great first date, something happens to extinguish their fiery attraction...

Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Ray Waller, a former Major League baseball player forced into early retirement due to a degenerative disease, who moves into a new house with his caring wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy and son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against all odds, to play professionally again, Ray convinces Eve that the shiny pool in the back yard of his new house will be fun for the kids and good physical therapy for him...

He should have been the villain of Sam Raimi’s fourth Spider-Man film, Kraven the Hunter, but he will only arrive at the cinema in 2023. He is one of Spider-Man’s most enduring and fascinating nemeses, the protagonist of what is probably the story more mature than the character: “Kraven’s Last Hunt”. At the cinema we will meet him in a younger version, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who declared his character will be an animal lover and protector of the natural world. J.C. is directing. Chandor, known for Margin Call and 1981: New York City, two films far from CGI blockbusters...

After his exploit of madness, in the film Golden Lion in Venice in 2019, Arthur Fleck was arrested and committed to the Arkham Asylum psychiatric institution...

Young Willy Wonka arrives in town with a little money and a bar of chocolate in a top hat halfway between the magician’s hat and Eta Beta’s bag. His dream is to open a large chocolate shop in the square where, however, three master chocolatiers already coexist who form a cartel among themselves and do not allow a new competitor: especially one who manages to make customers fly with his chocolates. Willy stays at an inn whose owner makes him sign a contract full of clauses that bind him to work for years in her laundry, where other unfortunate people who have been deceived in the same way at different times also stay. Among them is Noodle, a little girl who was recovered by the landlady from the laundry bin and who is forced to repay such generosity with the role of slave of the inn...