
A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.



After many years in prison, Luca Sabatini returns to his home village in Abruzzo in 1946. At the same time, party official Andrea Cipriani, who had to leave Italy during the war but is now welcomed back as a hero, also arrives. Andrea is the son of Luca's best friend. Luca's conviction was the first traumatic experience of his life. He is therefore determined to solve the mystery of why Luca did not defend himself at all during his trial, despite his innocence.

In Rome, Giulio Giuliani and his wife Anita—members of a middle-class family—long to have some time to themselves, but their three children, despite being adults, continue to cause problems and conflicts. Cristiana, their youngest daughter, who is too naive and under the thumb of her boyfriend Sandro, finds herself having to deal with an unexpected pregnancy.

Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.


A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Always on the hunt for news, journalist Guy Foster has no idea that he will soon be the subject of the city's crime pages: when his wife Melissa is found strangled in Regent's Park, he will be the first on the list of suspects. His innocence remains to be proven, as does the phone call the journalist claims to have received from his wife shortly before her body was discovered. A second murder and an attempted murder will further complicate matters...

In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York City.

Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.

The teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his father's client.

Sicilian dockworker Mimi inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new employment. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organiser. Soon, Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life.

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.