Romano Mancini

1920年代のニューヨーク。仲間と悪事の数々を働いていた少年ヌードルスはある日、マックスと運命的な出会いを果たす。そして彼らは禁酒法の隙間をぬって荒稼ぎを続け、ギャング集団として頭角を現わしていった。だがある時、ヌードルスは無謀な計画を立てたマックスを裏切り、マックスは警察に殺されてしまう。30年後、未だ自責の念に駆られるヌードルスは、ある一通の手紙を受け、久々にニューヨークへ戻って来た。

1920年代のニューヨーク。仲間と悪事の数々を働いていた少年ヌードルスはある日、マックスと運命的な出会いを果たす。そして彼らは禁酒法の隙間をぬって荒稼ぎを続け、ギャング集団として頭角を現わしていった。だがある時、ヌードルスは無謀な計画を立てたマックスを裏切り、マックスは警察に殺されてしまう。30年後、未だ自責の念に駆られるヌードルスは、ある一通の手紙を受け、久々にニューヨークへ戻って来た。

Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.

Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.

A moralistic judge declares war on pornography. His gay nephew, who lives with a transvestite, tries to save himself and also protect his friend Ana, a porn actress.

A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.

A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.