Gianni Sbarra

Angela, an Italian-American woman, after many years returned to Sicily to attend the funeral of her father. During the ferry trip she meets Salvo, a teenager boy who claims to be hunted by the Mafia, because of a quantity of drugs he stole to some criminals. She decides to give him a ride and the two embark on a journey through Sicily. His amorous attentions are soon obvious, and leads to a fairly obvious ending.

Silvia, who lives in a villa in the hills, has a quarrel with her ​​husband and his friends and then goes away down to the city, where she has the bad luck of being attacked by a group of misfits. At her rescue is a photographer who, in turn, is in trouble for having witnessed a murder by the Chinese mafia...

A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help his only child, even if it means sharing his hell.

8월 10일의 어두운 밤. 한 여성이 지난 전시 중에 겪었던 또다른 산로렌쪼의 밤을 떠올린다. 그때 아주 근접해 있는 미군의 진격으로 독일군과 파시스트들이 함께 후퇴하고 있다. 언덕에 자리잡은 한 마을에 농부와 숙련공, 그리고 중산층 시민들이 중세의 성 안에 있는 지하실에 숨어 있다. 마을 사람들은 자유가 임박했다는 희망에 고무된 채, 그곳에서 두려움과 허기에 찬 삶을 공유하고 있다. 이러한 때, 파시스트와 독일당국으로부터 마을 밖에 있는 교회에 모이라는 명령이 떨어진다. 사람들 집에는 지뢰가 매설되었고 얼마 있으면 폭발로 전부 산산조각이 날 것이다. 그리하여 주민들은 두 그룹으로 나뉘어져, 한쪽은 명령대로 교회에 가기로 결정하고, 나이든 농부 갈바노(Galvano: 오메로 안토누티 분)가 이끄는 다른 그룹은 연합군에 합류하기 위해 적진을 가로지르기로 결정한다. 칠흑같이 어두운 밤. 갈바노와 사람들은 마을에서 몰래 빠져나와 몇 킬로 밖에서 멈춰 마을을 뒤돌아 본다. 섬광과 폭발이 언덕 꼭대기로부터 피어오르고, 교회와 마을이 산산조각이 난다. 갈바노의 사람들은 작열하는 태양 아래서, 전쟁이 남겨 놓은 폐허를 지나며 계속 시골변두리를 걸어가고 있다. 일단의 유격대의 도움을 받아 그들은 몇명의 여자들이 수확 중인 옥수수밭에 이른다. 갈바노의 사람들도 이에 합세하여 근처 숲에 더미를 쌓는 것을 돕는다. 그때, 갑자기 파시스트들을 가득 태운 트럭이 도착하고, 다시금 격렬한 전투가 벌어진다.

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.

In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is pursued by the fascists of Cane Nero and, instead of running away to Turin, waits for Berta to rejoin him

Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. Both spouses have lovers and, in the end, the marriage ends in divorce.

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari. He starts his career killing publicly one of his friends that was a fascist. Than, he set up a band of partisans in north Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines, leave his husband to join the band and became Silvio's lover. Silvio Corbari succeeded also to set up a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from the Nazi occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano. But the opponent Nazi-Fascist army is too much for any kind of resistance, especially if not included in the organized CNL. All his partisan friends are captured and sentenced to death, Ines, close to be captured, suicides. Corbari, even if survives to a first hanging, can't escape to a second one. After WWII he deserved a gold medal to the memory from the Italian Republic.

Adaptation of Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.