În Napoli, Adelina trebuie să vândă tutun de contrabandă pentru a-și întreține familia. Amenzile neplătite pentru desfășurarea acestei activități o fac să trăiască sub amenințarea constantă a închisorii. La Milano, bogata și volubilă Anna face o evadare cu noul ei iubit în Rolls-Royce al soțului ei. La Roma, Mara, o prostituată cu inimă bună, va face promisiune că va întoarce un tânăr seminarist captivant pe calea cea bună. Trei povești cu actrița Sophia Loren în rol principal care arată voința, decizia și caracterul practic al italiencei în fața slăbiciunii bărbaților din jurul ei.

În Napoli, în cel de-al doilea Război Mondial, ferocele om de afaceri Domenico Soriano întâlnește curva de șaptesprezece ani Filumena Marturano într-un bordel în timpul unui bombardament al aliaților. Doi ani mai târziu, după război, se întâlnesc întâmplător și încep o aventură de durată. Timp de douăzeci și doi de ani, Filumena este amanta lui și îi administrează magazinele în Napoli în timp ce Domenico călătorește. Când Domenico decide să se căsătorească cu tânăra casieriță de la brutăria lui, Filumena îl ademenește ca și cum ar fi pe moarte și el se căsătorește cu ea. Mai târziu el anulează căsătoria, și ea îi spune că are trei fi pe care ea i-a crescut în secret, unul dintre ei find fiul lui legitim, dar nu îi dezvălui identitatea. Domenico de vârstă mijlocie folosește cele mai diverse subterfugii încercând să afle care adolescent poate fi fiul lui.

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?

Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

A 52-year-old cab driver drives stolen cars to taxi his clients through the streets of Barcelona.

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest.

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of six Napolitean episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.

The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.

Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.