Italian documentary film shot in several European towns (Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Venice) as well as in Rome's De Paolis Studios. The movie features a series of strip-tease numbers intermixed with real-life scenes and interviews.
Bruna
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Maddalena
Accattone era um cafetão da periferia pobre de Roma na década de 1960 e vive dos rendimentos ganhos pela sua prostituta Maddalena. Nunca trabalhou um só dia na sua vida e passa o tempo pelos cafés com os seus também ociosos amigos. Quando Maddalena é presa por perjúrio, perde a sua fonte de rendimento e, sem ninguém para o sustentar, começa o seu declínio, chegando a passar fome. Até que conhece a bela e inocente Stella. Tenta iniciá-la na prostituição, mas se apaixona e decide arranjar uma forma de a sustentar com trágicas consequências.[3]
Giovane zingara
A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
