Italy

Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.

While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.