An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
סיפור אהבה שלא רואים כל יום ! חייה של עקרת בית משתנים כשהיא נשכחת מאחור בטיול משפחתי, היא יוצאת לחופשת חייה בונציה לבדה ! מתיידדת עם מלצר מקומי ומוצאת עבודה בחנות פרחים. אך בעלה שוכר בלש פרטי שתפקידו להחזיר אותה לביתה ולמשפחתה האוהבת.
Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
סיפורו של אלמן (ריי ליוטה) ששוכר סוכנת בית (וופי גולדברג) כדי לטפל בבתו הקטנה שהתכנסה בתוך עצמה בעקבות מות אמה. העלילה מתרחשת בסוף שנות ה-50 והסרט עוסק, בין השאר, בקושי בקיום יחסים בין גבר לבן לאשה שחורה באותה תקופה. התוצאה נוגעת ללב, בעיקר בזכות הכישרון והחן של שני כוכביה. עם טינה מג'ורינו, ונדי קרוסון, לארי מילר, ג'ואן קיוזאק ודון אמיצ'י. ביים: ג'סי נלסון (קוראים לי סם)
מרתה החולה נפרדה מהחבר החלומי שלה ומתאהבת באומן, אבל החיים לא מפסיקים להפתיע אותה ואת חבריה.
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
הסיפור הקלאסי של יחסים בין אימא ובתה המתבגרת. אם (ברברה הריס) וביתה (ג'ודי פוסטר) המתבגרת רבות על בסיס יומי וחיי המשפחה עולים על שרטון, עד שיום שישי מוזר אחד בו השתיים נאלצו להעבירו יחד, מלמד אותן הרבה על עצמן ועל חיי המשפחה ומחבר אותן שוב יחד, כאם ובת. סרט דומה משנת 2003 נעשה על בסיס העלילה הזו.
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
A young fashion blogger and an aspiring songwriter seem to have not that much in common, but when Cupid’s arrow hits them, every difference fades away and overnight they decide to get married. Even their fathers do not have anything in common: Gaetano is a strict mayor from Southern Italy, while Diego is a rich entrepreneur from the North. Between the two forthcoming in-laws, instead, is hate at first sight. They seem to agree on one single common goal: prevent this marriage at any cost! After fighting by any means in a struggle that will also involve their two bizarre families, will they manage to say no to the wedding?