Mattia Sbragia is known for his roles in movies, such as "The Year of the Gun" (dir. Frankenheimer), "The Golden Bowl", (dir. by James Ivory), "Heaven" (dir. Tom Tykwer), Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ", Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Twelve". He interpreted Arlechino in 'The Island of Slaves' (dir. by Giorgio Strehler) at the Piccolo Teatro in the 80's-90's in Milan, followed by Ciano in "The death of Galliazzo Ciano" (dir. Marco Tullio Giordana). Additionally, Mattia is a prolific dubber, voicing for instance Matthew Modine in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", and Geoffrey Rush in "Shine". Sbragia started his career in the theater at the end of the 1960s.
A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists.
After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers, the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relationship that quickly escalates into idle talk about her husband’s murder.
Set between the New World (Heaven) and the Old World (Earth) the story follows the life and afterlife of Jonathan Stone and all of those lives around him from his past, present and future.
An escort-service owner uses his girls to get close to politician/PM and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, but in 2006 he's preoccupied with his shaky marriage and losing an election.