1940 m. Sicilijos miestelis Castelcuta. Rūpintis sunkiai sergančiu tėvu čia atvyksta mergina vardu Malena. Kai tik ji išeina į gatvę, kiekvienas miestelio vyras nebegali atitraukti akių nuo nuostabaus grožio, o visos moterys paleidžia liežuvius ir skleidžia paskalas. Vos tik pamatęs Maleną, berniukas Renato pirmą kartą gyvenime nesugeba išsiginti nuo užplūdusių keistų jausmų. Jis pradeda sekti savo svajonių merginą, norėdamas išsiaiškinti, kokia yra tikroji Malena, kurios vyras tragiškai žuvo kare.
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Filmo veiksmas vystosi mažame Sicilijos miestelyje, kurio visas gyvenimas verda apie kino teatrą egzotišku pavadinimu – „Paradiso“. Filmo dieną sausakimšoje kino salėje susirenka didžioji dauguma miestelėnų – čia vyksta susitikimai darbo klausimais, sprendžiami gyvenimiški klausimai, žmonės įsimyli ir keičia savo gyvenimus.
Filmas sukurtas pagal tikrą gyvenimo istoriją. Du draugai – Enzo Molinari ir Žakas Mayol – kartu augo vienoje iš Graikijos salų. Užaugę toje pačioje vietoje, bėgant laikui neišskiriami iki šiol draugai pasuka skirtingais keliais. Vienintelis dalykas, kuris juos suartina ir atstumia tuo pačiu metu yra meilė nardymui. Tapę profesionalais Žakas ir Enzo pradeda konkuruoti dėl geriausio gilumų nardytojo titulo. O pasirodžius horizonte simpatiškajai Džoan, kuri pavergia Žako širdį, konkuravimas tarp draugų virsta tikra beprotybe. Jie jau peržengė 120 metrų ribą. Žakui ir Enzo žydra bedugnė yra mielesnė, nei gyvenimas žemėje.
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.
1943-ųjų pavasarį, pačiame Antrojo Pasaulinio karo įkarštyje, Sąjungininkams žūt būt reikėjo pasipriešinti vis stiprėjančiam Hitlerio dominavimui Europoje. Buvo nuspręsta, jog tam geriausiai pasitarnautų įsitvirtinimas Sicilijoje. Tačiau kaip išsilaipinti saloje, nesulaukiant vokiečių pasipriešinimo ir išvengiant aukų? Dviem britų žvalgybos MI5 agentams kilo viena keisčiausių, beprotiškiausių ir rizikingiausių minčių karybos istorijoje - vokiečiams pakišti neegzistuojančio žvalgo kūną su sufabrikuotais duomenimis apie Sąjungininkų planus išsilaipinti Graikijoje ir Sardinijoje.
Operacija buvo pavadinta „Mincemeat“, o jos pagrindu tapo 1939-aisiais britų žvalgybos surašytas memorandumas, prie kurio, beje, prisidėjo ir žymiojo Džeimso Bondo kūrėjas Ianas Flemingas, tuo metu buvęs britų admirolo Džono Godfrio asistentu.
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
This is the story of a Sicilian woman that tries to have avidly as many sexual adventures as possible. She uses different identities and personalities, but she can't stop collecting adventures. One day she meets Valerio, a young student who falls in love with her.
A sunbaked Sicilian town in the summer of 1982 provides the vivid backdrop to this tender romantic drama about two teenagers who fall in love, but much to the disapproval of those around them. Gianni is a handsome but shy teen who works as a car mechanic at his stepfather’s garage but is mercilessly taunted by the macho townsmen for being a homosexual. With his family life no better, Gianni withdraws into himself until one day he meets Nino, a curly-haired boy with an infectious smile. As the two become close and fall in love, the moral rumblings from their families and neighbors begin to erupt. With all against them, the boys decide to make a stand.
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
Filmas apima 40 metų laikotarpį. Asmeniniais prisiminimais ir fantazijomis paremtas veiksmas nukels į mažą Sicilijos regiono kaimelį, kuriame visi visus pažįsta, žino kaimynų ydas ir dorybes. Čia taip pat gyvena ir pagrindinis filmo personažas – jaunas berniukas, pravarde Pepino. Nerūpestingą vaikystę pakeičia fašistų įsiveržimas.
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.