Suora
Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
Locusta
Pushed by his mother Agrippina, Neron seized power at the expense of Britannicus. His poetry makes him commit numerous crimes. He will die stabbed after having killed his wife, his mother, his advisers, his wife's lovers, and an incredible number of Christians ...
Locusta
Donna Assunta
La portiera da Rutolo
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
domestica di Adriana
Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.
Celestina, la guardiana
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.
La madre di Stefano
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.
Giovanna Dini, l'ostetrica
Nonna di Iris
Sua madre
Mamma Ada, la fattuchierra
In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along.
Donna Provvidenza, farmer's wife
Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
Signora Genoveffa Martin
Mamma di Dorina
A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.
This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
Mamma Rosa