Elderly Woman
An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Bruna
20세기 최고의 오페라 가수로 꼽히는 천상의 목소리 '디바' 마리아 칼라스(화니 아르당 분). 세기의 스캔들로 전세계를 떠들썩하게 했던 선박왕 오나시스와의 사랑도, 그토록 아름다웠던 자신의 목소리까지 모두 세월 속에 묻어버린 채 남은 여생을 은둔하며 지내려 한다. 이때 그녀 앞에 나타난 오랜 친구이자 공연기획자인 래리(제레미 아이언스 분)는 그녀의 예술성과 천재성을 다시 한번 세상에 되돌려 놓기 위해 놀라운 제안을 한다. 바로 현대과학의 기술로 그녀 전성기 때의 목소리를 되살려 오페라 영화를 제작하자는 것. 절대 노래하지 않겠다고 결심한 그녀는 단호히 제의를 거절하나 집요한 래리의 설득 아래 다시는 기억하고 싶지 않은 마지막 공연실황에 젊은 시절 목소리를 덧입힌 편집본을 본 순간, 다시금 노래에 대한 전율이 되살아나면서 그의 제안을 수락하기에 이른다. 영화화 될 작품은 불후의 명작 오페라<카르멘>. 그녀는 지난 사랑의 아픔과 예술에 대한 정열을 다시 한번 매혹의 집시여인 '카르멘'이 되어 쏟아내기 시작한다. 칼라스의 절친한 친구이자 베테랑 저널리스트인 새라(조안 플로라이트 분)도 진실된 마음으로 그녀가 재기할 수 있도록 조언을 아끼지 않고 기꺼이 그녀를 돕는다. 그녀를 잊지 않은 팬들과 관계자들의 성원에 힘입어 작품은 완성되고 성공적인 평가를 받게 되는 칼라스. 기획자인 래리는 더없이 만족하며 차기작을 운운하지만 성공의 기쁨도 잠시, 칼라스는 정직하지 못한 예술작품이란 생각에 또 한번의 고비를 맞는다.
The isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old child named Mirka.
Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry his uncle Pietro, a disgusting old man, at age 13. She bears three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
Vito's Grandmother
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
La nonna di Marco
Perfetta
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Rosetta Scarfi
A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
Rosa, madre di Antonio
Argia
The lives of three generations of peasant farmers in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy are the focus of this unexciting, flat-footed saga by Florestano Vancini. When the grandfather (Marne Maitland) first decides to leave his job of canal-building and move to northern Italy, he takes up work as a peasant on the land of a local priest, while his oldest son Venancio (Massimo Ghini) starts driving a carriage. More of a visionary than a chauffeur, Venancio first gets involved in organizing the peasants into a kind of farmer's union, and when that movement goes under, he devotes himself to educating the farmers instead. Along the way, his mother dies, he marries Mariena (Anna Teresa Rossini), and they have children. Much to Venancio's sorrow, his own sons do not want to stay in farming, and as they grow older, only one remains at home to till the soil. In the meantime, the specter of fascism is growing stronger by the day and the clouds of war being to darken the horizon.
A man leaves home on errands and is "kidnapped" by a sunny Rome.
The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He finally does it. When Giancarlo finds out, they return for Eugenio, but he is now lost. Meanwhile we're told the story of the child and his relation with the family, and why he feels unwanted.
Signora Cesaroni
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
