Efter en tumultartad uppväxt bränner Bruno alla broar till sin familj i Livorno och lämnar sin mamma och lillasyster för att flytta till Milano. Men när hans fortfarande livfulla mamma ligger för döden övertalar hans syster honom att göra ett besök.

A young man, Andrea, from the bourgeoisie of Lugano, with power in high finance, falls in love with a beautiful pianist, Antonia. Antonia leaves his fabulous career for the love she feels for him. Soon the beautiful women leads him in a growing state of jealousy which leads to a murderous obsession. The young man tells his passion to an unknown, in an airport while waiting for a flight.

Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.

Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.

The training trip of 4 "special" boys, one narcoleptic, one internet-dependent, one suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and one obsessed with hygiene towards self-affirmation and acceptance of one's differences.

The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

Vanni and Linda live in a penthouse apartment for rent in the center of Rome. Vanni writes novels, Linda 'cooperates' to his novels. Between a vernissage and an exhibition of Basquiat, thay hang out Alfredo and Constanza, a couple on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Alfredo is a surgeon with the habit of waking up early and has a lover, Constanza is a dermatologist with the same habits. With the intent to vent their frustrations in their friends' living room, Alfredo and Constanza take hostage the couple and recriminate loudly about the past and the present. In an impossible attempt to contain them, Vanni and Linda eventually take the field and also thrash each other. Someone will end up getting hurt by the end of the night.

Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four days. Vincenzo has to carry an important load to Bari and brings Salvo (nomen est omen) with him as insurance: a child is better than a gun, he says, because his presence in the event of a possible police detention can have a distracting effect . This however is not the only reason why Vincenzo wants Salvo with him, and the "Salv-atore" child will prove to be a potential vehicle of redemption for that messed up father, but not entirely devoid of feelings and attentions.

A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.

Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a foreign singer named for a flower. In Brussels he meets Marguerite, an older chanteuse who interprets Jacques Brel and loves her yappy dog.

During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.

En italiensk familj på gränsen till sammanbrott är en bitterljuv komedi om en familjen som äger en pastafabrik i Apulien. Tommaso är yngste sonen i den stora excentriska familjen Cantone vars liv kretsar kring familjens pastafabrik. Familjen tror att Tomasso bedriver studier i Rom, men i själva verket har han författarambitioner och inga som helst planer på en framtid i pastafabriken. Han har dessutom bestämt sig för att avslöja att han är homosexuell, och i och med det är han övertygad om att pappan inte vill ha honom i fabriken. Men storebror hinner före och chockar alla med exakt samma nyhet! Han blir omedelbart utslängd ur huset, familjen är bestört och pappan får en hjärtattack. Stackars Tommaso har inget val. Han får snällt ta över arbetet i fabriken..

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

I 1920-talets New York får en svart kvinna tillvaron vänd upp och ner när hon återknyter bekantskapen med en barndomsvän som ses som vit.

A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better.

Marcel Marx har lämnat sitt författarliv och försörjer sig nu som skoputsare. Marcel lever i ett kärleksfullt äktenskap med Arletty och tar sig ett par glas på kvällen på kvarterets bar. Men allt förändras när Arletty blir allvarligt sjuk samtidigt som Idrissa dyker upp, en liten kille från Afrika som kommit som båtflykting till Le Havre.