An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
venditrice di scope
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, working in endless incarnations in Neris direct neighborhood, trying to seduce his kids. His newest kid is the young thief Cirifischio, making a lot of problems. When Cirifischio has an argument with a young boy of a local aristocrat, the boy turns out to be a girl, the young Leonetta, some kind of a sex slave for her owner. Neri adopts her too, and the young people fall in love. 15 Years later, the devil is back and leads Cirifiscio onto a murder. Now lawless, the thief must flee Neri and leave Leonetta back...
Luciana
O pai, Armando, é um playboy, amante dos prazeres. Já o filho, Cristiano, é um idealista ingênuo e desajeitado que luta pela proteção das gaivotas. Forçados a viajar juntos, eles acabam se conhecendo melhor e, apesar dos inúmeros conflitos, redescobrem a relação pai-filho.
Elvira, madre di Anna
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.
Friend
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.
Nonna
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
zia Alvisa
The family of a wealthy nobleman tries to take away his land away after learning that he is having an affair with an imaginary woman.
Herodias
Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story of Jesus in its ancient, historic context.
Luciana Bonfanti
Em uma pequena aldeia assolada pela pobreza no sul da Itália vivem Antonio, Francesco e Sergio: três jovens desempregados que levam vidas monótonas. Eles passam o tempo andando pelas ruas atrás de garotas, sempre fazendo planos hesitantes e aprisionados pela própria letargia.
