A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her...

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

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The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering...

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend...

In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer...