Ο πατριάρχης μιας πολυπληθούς οικογένειας που ζει σε παραγκούπολη προσπαθεί με κάθε τρόπο να επιβιώσει από τα υπόλοιπα μέλη της, τα οποία θέλουν να τον ξεκάνουν.

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.

Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.

1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a conservative newspaper, tries to derail the official police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his boss to win the elections.

Σε μια Ιταλία που μαστίζεται από τη φτώχεια και την ανεργία, ένας αφισοκολλητής αναζητά το κλεμμένο ποδήλατό του, εργαλείο απαραίτητο για τη δουλειά που κάνει. Τελικά, αναγκάζεται να κλέψει με τη σειρά του άλλο ποδήλατο, γεγονός που θα έχει δραματικές επιπτώσεις.

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Η οικογένεια Ciraulo ζει στην άθλια περιοχή του Παλέρμο που ονομάζεται "Zen". Όταν ένα από τα παιδιά τους πεθαίνει σε μια ανταλλαγή πυροβολισμών μεταξύ γκάνγκστερ μαφίας, λαμβάνουν αποζημίωση και αγοράζουν ένα πολυτελές μαύρο Volvo. Τα πράγματα πάνε στραβά όταν ο Trancredi, άλλος γιος, βγάζει το αυτοκίνητο και βλάπτει την πόρτα του αυτοκινήτου.

Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, Anna Carla’s gay friend. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murder happens...

Στον βιομηχανικό βορά της Ιταλίας ζει ο Τζιοβάνι, ένας εξειδικευμένος εργάτης φάμπρικας. Το αφεντικό θα του προτείνει προαγωγή, αρκεί να πάει στη Σικελία για 18 μήνες, ώστε να βοηθήσει σε ένα νέο παράρτημα. Η απουσία του θα κάνει κακό στη σχέση του με την αρραβωνιαστικιά του, Λιλιάνα, μια σχέση που κινείται μέσα σε κάποιες μονάχα συναντήσεις. Αυτήν, όμως, έχει συνέχεια στο νου του ο Τζιοβάνι, κατά τη μοναχική του ζωή στη Σικελία. Η απόσταση, βέβαια, μονάχα κακό μπορεί να κάνει.

The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.

Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…

On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini's death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of his personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as his drawings and film clips.

A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.

There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and literally thousands of Qing troops - complete with betrayals, intrigues, and such novel fighting machines as 108 wooden robots. The conflicts grow in complexity, intensity and even suspense as monks struggle to stay alive in the face of overwhelming odds.

In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.