Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Mary Fiore (Jennifer Lopez) é uma conceituada organizadora de casamentos, que consegue transformar qualquer casamento em um evento romântico inesquecível para os noivos e seus familiares. Mas quando ela se apaixona pelo noivo de um dos casamentos que está organizando, começa a perceber que falta amor em sua vida e, por causa disso, se envolve em uma série de confusões.
Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and started a new life in France, thus changing his beloved family's destiny forever. His grandson retraces their story.
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent to jail, Stefano finds out and decides to annul their marriage.
Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
Two men must challenge their relationship with meat, when a vegetarian hamburger is brought to them by a mysterious woman with questionable morals.
An Italian man emigrates to Sweden after getting tempted by the picture painted by his friend's letters but finds the reality quite different.
A look at the life of chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Lidia Bastianich both on and off the screen as she celebrates 25 years on public television.
New York Solo Andata tells the story of the American Dream from the first Italian migratory flows to nowadays through the voices of all those who truly believed and fulfilled it with determination. Davide Ippolito leaves Italy to meet Italians and important personalities living in New York to tell the most unusual aspects of the city to remind "if you can dream it, you can do it."
Yara is an immigrated girl. Escaped from the horrors of the war, she finds herself in a refugee center. Here she will meet Lucas, with whom she will start a relationship. With the help of the social worker, Nadia, the couple, in economic difficulties, manage to find a temporary accommodation in a council house, unaware that the real horror will start as soon as they cross that door.
A portrait of three generations of wonderfully eccentric Italian American women living in a small town near Boulder.