Ali and Nino. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1937 book, Ali and Nino: A Love Story
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Ali and Nino: A Love Story
Kurban Said, 1937
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Asif Kapadia, 2016

During the Russian Empire, Ali and Nino fall in love. Ali is a Muslim from Azerbaijan who lives in the oil-rich city of Baku, in the family’s Shirvanshir Palace. Nino is a Georgian Orthodox Christian whose wealthy Kipiani family also lives in Baku. Ali’s friend, Malik, agrees to help bring the aristocratic parents to accept a marriage. World War I breaks out in Europe.


A Haunting in Venice. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 1969 book, Hallowe'en Party
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Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie, 1969
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Kenneth Branagh, 2023

Set in post-World War II Venice, Poirot, who is now retired and living in self-imposed isolation, hesitantly participates in a seance. However, when one of the attendees is murdered, the former detective is compelled to resume his role in unraveling the identity of the killer.


Three Floors. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2015 book, Three Floors Up
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Three Floors Up
Eshkol Nevo, 2015
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Nanni Moretti, 2021

A series of events will radically change the lives of the inhabitants of a Roman apartment building, revealing their difficulties in being parents, siblings or neighbours, in a world where coexistence seems to be ruled by fear and resentment. While the men are imprisoned by their obstinacy, the women, each in their own way, attempt to mend these fragmented lives to finally and serenely pass on a love that had been thought lost forever.


The Catholic School. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2016 book
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The Catholic School
Edoardo Albinati, 2016
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Stefano Mordini, 2021

In a residential district of Rome there is a well-known Catholic boy’s school where the offspring of the upper middle-class are educated. The families feel that in that setting their children will be able to grow up sheltered from the turmoil pervading society. On the night between 29 and 30 September of 1975 something broke down and that fortress of irreprehensible values crumbled beneath the weight of one of the most heinous crimes of the period: the Circeo massacre.