Sicily, 1951. A young literature teacher secretly falls in love with Maria Venera, the most beautiful girl in town who lives in the decrepit palace of her grandfather, an old aristocrat who squandered his fortune.
Il perito
On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourteen people dead and more than thirty wounded. In 1951, about a year after Giulano's violent death, his men are tried in Viterbo. Unconvinced by the official version, Gaspare Pasciotta's lawyer, decides to travel to Sicily and starts investigating the facts.
Self
tenente La Pezza
Fernando
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
un collega di Gennarino
Um magnata da indústria farmacêutica, Anthony Leighton (Bruce Greenwood), é casado com a bela e arrogante Amber (Madonna). Tony alugou um barco para, junto com a mulher e amigos, fazerem um cruzeiro da Grécia à Itália, porém nada faz Amber feliz, com ela implicando com Giuseppe Esposito (Adriano Giannini), um pescador que trabalha no navio. Um dia Amber descobre que seu marido e convidados pegaram um bote para fazer um passeio nas cavernas das ilhas. Ela fica irritada e ordena que Peppe desça outro bote, apesar dele avisá-la que não é boa hora, por causa das correntes. O temor de Peppe logo se concretiza, pois o motor do bote quebra. Para piorar ele e Amber brigam por um sinalizador e acabam dando um tiro, que fura o bote. Eles conseguem chegar a uma ilha deserta. As diferenças sociais que existiam no início do cruzeiro acabaram totalmente, mas algo totalmente imprevisível está para acontecer com Giuseppe e Amber.
Cook
A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
Carmelino l'autista
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
Zog
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.
Chemist
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...
ragionier Nicasio
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
Dio (voice)
A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness.
Dio (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta") (voice)
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Dio (voice)
Retomando o tema de Édipo Rei da "Culpa da Inocência," o cândido personagem Riccetto caminha pela Via Nazionale alheio às desigualdades, guerras e conflitos do entorno.
Tiberio, Gianna's fiancé
A hotel owner, in competition with a rival owner, finds a cache of lost treasure on the bottom of the bay after trying to drown himself which turns his life upside down.
Un emigrante siciliano
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Carabiniere Mancuso
Três histórias. - Um homem confessa e pede segredo sobre sua impotência sexual para um médico amigo, mas é traído. - Um funcionário de banco, depois de uma tumultuada relação com uma garçonete, volta a ficar solteiro. - Adultos exploram a ingenuidade de uma garota de sua vizinhança e se deparam com o pai da mesma como obstáculo.
Rosario Sciacca di Scordia
The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
Maurizio (Segment "Quel porco di Maurizio")
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
Alfredo
O rico Domenico e Filumena, uma prostituta sem dinheiro, compartilham grande parte de suas vidas no pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial na Itália. Domenico, um empresário de sucesso, de olho nas meninas, inicia um caso com Filumena aos 17 anos. Ela se torna prostituta, mas também se torna amante de Domenico. Ele finalmente a instala em um apartamento, e ela trabalha para ele em seus vários negócios. Mas ela secretamente tem três filhos, que são criados por babás. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
calzolaio
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Peppino Califano
Um homem siciliano desesperado, cuja filha de 15 anos foi seduzida e engravidada pelo noivo da filha mais velha, tenta encontrar uma maneira de salvar a honra da família. O filme apresenta a história de Agnese Ascalone, filha do proeminente mineiro Vincenzo Ascalone, e se passa em uma pequena cidade da Sicília. Agnese é seduzida pelo noivo de sua irmã Matilde, e tem um encontro com ele pelo qual ela confessa e tenta se arrepender, apenas para ser descoberta por sua mãe e pai. O filme é uma sátira sombria dos costumes sociais sicilianos e das leis de honra, e é muito semelhante ao filme Divórcio à Italiana (1961). (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)