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Asteroid City is a pulsating work of art with popping colors. The audience embarks on a fantasy trip to the final frontier. Whilst all eyes look up to the infinite space, it sends a messenger down. The UFO provokes troubles and unanswered questions.

Set over two different centuries, Outlander tells the story of Jamie and Claire and their adventurous romance through the ages of Scotland.

Hailed as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, William Wyler's Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, celebrates its 70th anniversary and impressive international legacy.

Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, released in 1988, tells the story of a young Sicilian boy animated by a strong love for cinema.

Makoto Shinkai's Your Name tells the story of the quest for a soul mate by exploring the tension between modernity and tradition in Japan.

Adapted from Alice Oseman's graphic novel series, Heartsopper is a queer coming-of-age romance rich in educational value. An inclusive feel-good story that has met with critical acclaim and instant popularity among viewers. Adorned in rainbow colors and with magical 2D animation, it stands out in the current TV scenario for its heartwarming sweetness, simplicity and tenderness and its focus on positive outlooks and aspects.

Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino can feel more like a weirdly grotesque teenage drama than like any other cannibal-themed horror movie.

Tom Hooper's 2015 movie The Danish Girl is loosely based on the real-life story of Danish painter and transgender woman Lili Elbe, today widely remembered as one of the first documented people to undergo sex reassignment surgery and as a pioneer of transgender rights.

Some like it hot by Billy Wilder was released in 1959. The movie tells the story of two musicians who disguise themselves as women to escape malefactors.

In My Dress-up Darling cosplay brings together an unlikely couple, helping them in dealing with society's expectations of them.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004), by Michel Gondry, halfway between romantic comedy and science fiction it’s a real cult movie.

Sunrise, A Song of Two Humans (1927) by director F.W. Murnau is an atypical movie that make expressionism and realism coexist.

Based on the homonymous stage musical of the 1957, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story is a film rewriting a classic.

Published in 2018, Cinzia by Leo Ortolani is the first graphic novel that tells with its humor a story about acceptance and identity.

Peau d'homme, the graphic novel by Hubert and Zanzim published in France in 2020, offers a reflection on sexuality, gender roles, and more.

On body and Soul by Ildikò Enyedi is a love story about overcoming the human disability to expose one's soul.

City lights (1931) by Charlie Chaplin is a silent movie realized in the period of sound cinema that conquered public and critics.

Dawson's Creek essentially focuses on a group of friends growing up together. It depicts adolescence and the process of becoming an adult.

In 1987's novel Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami explores a more realistic approach to narration, but with his characteristic delicate touch.

Midge Maisel is a young jewish girl living in New York. Her life is perfect until it's not. Her husband leaves her for his secretary. She is alone, but with a talent that comes out of nowhere: she's a brilliant comedian.

Victoria by Sebastian Schipper is a movie of two hours and eighteen minutes shot in a single long take.

The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), in 1989.

The comedy Trying shows the difficult and emotional journey that needs to be accomplished to become foster parents.

Go Ahead's main subject always revolves around the importance of family and that every hardship in life can be surmounted.

This is Us shows how life is a perfect mix of sweet and sour, and we all share the same crazy, hard and exciting journey.

Will & Grace, the groundbreaking sitcom created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, has played a major role in normalizing LGBTQ+ representation.

Amour by Michael Haneke is a movie that tells a story about a repressed subject in contemporary western culture, the death.

Watching the compulsively endearing Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her co-workers’ lives inside the Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital could best be described as awkwardly comfortable. It’s a never-ending drama, partly redolent of a competitive soap opera strewn with blood, emotions, and human frailty and triumph, fired by love, lust, labor, and learning.

Queen Sugar - adapted from the novel of the same name by Natalie Baszile - is a family drama that shares both topics and dynamics with many other shows but takes advantage of a poignant cultural authenticity to stand out and generate unique points of interest.

The Forty-Nine stories embody most of Hemingway’s prominent themes, which are the conflict between man and nature, solitude, incommunicability, virile effort, an almost mythic exaltation of bravery. And above all, a sense of death dripping into the silences and cracks of human life.

Similar to shows like Euphoria and Sex Education, The End of the F***ing World continues the trend of mature and gritty shows about teenagers, exploring every aspect of how these characters deal with love, trauma, and societal expectations.

Samantha White lives the daily struggle of being a black student in a predominantly white school, and calls out the bias on her radio podcast called ‘Dear White People’.

The film Portrait of a Lady On Fire is, according to writer and director Céline Sciamma, “a manifesto about the female gaze.”

In A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, billed as “the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western,” director Ana Lily Amirpour delights in subverting expectations.

Cheryl Dunye made history as the first Black lesbian to release a feature film: The Watermelon Woman. Nearly three decades later, her legacy continues to inspire.

Released in 2021 on Netflix, the Swedish teen drama Young Royals balances romance and the public life of a future king.

Bradley Cooper's Maestro is a biopic that focuses on the marriage of composer Leonard Bernstein and Broadway star Felicia Montealegre.

The novel The Museum of Innocence, written by Orhan Pamuk in 2008, tells a love story set in Istanbul, a city where East and West collide.

NANA is a refreshing coming of age story that subverts the canons of shojo manga and became a staple of its generation.

The success of Christoforos Papakaliatis' series, Maestro in Blue, is a promising sign for future Greek productions seeking global audiences.

The teen comedy that became a cult classic: How Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You reinvented high school on the big screen.

In A Girl's Story Annie Ernaux unearths the wreckage of her past and through writing and memory she frees herself from them.

The protagonist of Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, one of Italy's first modern novels, is the portrait of the XX century man.

Alessandro Baricco's The Young Bride is a romance novel that challenges characters and readers through metanarrative.

In Two Lovers, James Gray depicts his "men of the underground" at the height of the crisis he goes through to find happiness.

Written and directed by Jeremy Leven in 1995, Don Juan DeMarco tells the story of the legendary libertine's survival in modern times.

Combining magic and emotions, Clamp's Cardcaptor Sakura is a heartwarming manga that made the bond between its characters its main strength.

The dark romance The Scarlet Letter by American Nathaniel Hawthorne is the story of guilt and oppression of Hester Prynne's freedom.

In Video Girl Ai love is a complicated matter for Yota Moteuchi. His world of unrequited love will shatter when a girl jumps out of his TV.

Feel Good is a romantic comedy-drama written by comedian Mae Martin with a simple setting that explores many controversial themes.

Directed by Ang Lee and winner of three Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two men and their promise of forbidden love.

Master Gardener is like a fable in the real, violent world, a story that touches love, racism and redemption, but on a flowered background.

Pam & Tommy is a fictional tell of the true story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s turbulent love, started with a hasty marriage in 1995.

Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha is a tale of a journey to another time that combines romance and action, as well as folklore and modern elements.

Naoko Takeuchi's manga sensation Sailor Moon represents a turning point for the magical girls genre, as well as an expression of girl power.

Wild at Heart is one of David One of David Lynch's most lively works, but also one of the hardest to grasp, Wild at Heart provides (for those who comply) a cinematic trip that has not lost an ounce of its expressive force to the passing of time. 

Published in 2011, Madeline Miller's reinterpretation of the myth The Song of Achilles is the story of war and a love worth dying for.

Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë in 1847, tells about the uncontrolled passion between Catherine and Heathcliff.

Written by Charlotte Brontë in 1847, Jane Eyre is not the typical Victorian novel but an inner journey towards emancipation.

Chungking Express is a 1994 romantic dramedy by Wong Kar-wai. The film is a kaleidoscopic journey through 90s Hong Kong, chronicling love, loneliness and globalization.

Published in 2004, Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Màrquez tells the story of a ninety-year-old man who falls in love for the first time.

Published in 2016, Guido Catalano first novel is an autobiographical fiction about love and how love reaches the end in real life.

In Bombay Rose Gitanjali Rao expands the story of these two unfortunate lovers from her 2014 short film TrueLoveStory, employing the same frame-by-frame painted animation style as she has used since her 2006 Printed Rainbow. With a team of 60 artists, she brings to life a jewel-toned Mumbai packed with busy traffic and interconnected lives, where daily survival is a struggle but where a miraculous Bollywood ending always feels just around the corner.

The first-ever film adaptation of a fictional work by James Baldwin, Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk is suffused with moments of visual poetry that invite the viewer into the pure, ecstatic love of the two protagonists.