As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
אנטואן מרשאל הוא בן אדם פשוט שהחליט לנסוע לחופשה במכוניתו הקטנטנה. ליד ביתוהוא מתנגש במכוניתו המפוארת של מאפיונר מקומי בשם סארויאן. סארויאן מציע לאנטואןלנסוע לחופשה באיטליה בקאדילק הלבנה שלו. אנטואן עדיין אינו יודע שברכב המפוארמסתתרים חפצים של מבריח מקצועיים המעוניין להבריח אותם בעזרתו.
Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
סיפורו של פבייטו סקיזה, נער צעיר שחי בנפולי הסוערת של שנות השמונים. "יד האלוהים" הוא סיפור שגדוש ברגעים בלתי צפויים של שמחה – כמו ביקורו של שחקן הכדורגל האגדי דייגו מרדונה – וגם של טרגדיה. הגורל נכנס לפעולה, שמחה וטרגדיה משתלבות זו בזו, והאירועים שיקבעו את עתידו של פבייטו מתחילים להתגלגל. סורנטינו חוזר לעיר הולדתו כדי לספר את הסיפור הכי אישי שלו, סיפור על גורל ומשפחה, ספורט וקולנוע, אהבה ואובדן.
ב-1980, צ'ירו עוד היה תינוק שנמצא בודד בין ההריסות שהותירה רעידת אדמה. עשר שנים לאחר מכן, הוא נאלץ לשרוד בעצמו ברחובות נאפולי ולגדול בצל העולם התחתון הפושה בעיר. ילד אבוד, שלא שייך לאף אחד ומקבל את הכינוי ‘בן האלמוות’.
Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
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".