Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardian of the secrets of certain miraculous plants, the noble Peluso family is ravaged by a series of mysterious deaths…
The imperfections of love and its bitter consequences in Turin, Italy, during the ‘80s, before the social networks and smartphones. What happens to your heart when you discover that you're madly in love with your best friend? What happens to your soul when you find out that your teacher and life coach has been hiding a clandestine love with your best friend's father? What is the true meaning of friendship when you discover that it is the only antidote to heartbreak?
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
무솔리니 정권의 이탈리아, 한 시골마을에 사는 주인공 소년 레나토(주세페 술파로)는 마을에서 가장 아름다운 여인 말레나(모니카 벨루치)에 한눈에 반한다. 레나토의 라틴어 선생(피에트로 노타리안니)의 딸인 말레나는 전쟁으로 남편을 잃고 혼자 살고 있었다. 레나토는 빼어난 미모 때문에 온 마을 사내들의 정욕에 찬 시선과 아낙네들의 따돌림을 감내해야 하는 말레나를 늘 안타깝게 지켜본다. 어느 날 말레나의 남편 스코르디아(가에타노 아로니카)의 전사소식이 전해지고, 독일군이 점령한 마을에서 생계를 잃은 말레나는 창녀가 된다.
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
