The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Sara, a quite librarian reluctant to enter into an affair following one that went wrong, and Bruno, a seemingly cynical guy looking for a one-night stand, become attracted to each other.
어린 시절 영화가 세상의 전부였던 소년 토토는 학교 수업을 마치면 마을 광장에 있는 낡은 시네마 천국이라는 극장으로 달려가 영사 기사 알프레도와 친구로 지내며 어깨너머로 영사기술을 배운다. 어느 날 관객들을 위해 광장에서 야외 상영을 해주던 알프레도가 그만 화재 사고로 실명하게 되고, 토토가 그의 뒤를 이어 시네마 천국의 영상기사로 일하게 된다. 실명한 후에도 토토의 친구이자 아버지로 든든한 정신적 지주가 되어준 알프레도는 청년이 된 토토가 사랑하는 여자 엘레나의 부모님의 반대로 좌절하자 넓은 세상으로 나가서 더 많은 것을 배우라며 권유하는데...
Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects. She recognizes her father's murderer, a Scouser cab driver, but doesn't say anything, choosing to track him down and exact her revenge by herself.
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.
