Stripteaser (segment "La ricotta") (uncredited)
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
The Bride
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Maria
The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
(uncredited)
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
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