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.
Domenico, known as Mimì, must prove to his parents that he is not impotent and homosexual, only this way will he be able to unlock himself and receive the rich family heritage.
Catania, Italy. The Platania family hires a new French governess, the beautiful Caterina. The life of the whole family will be soon turned upside down.
Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...
