Neapel är den första av tre liderliga och komiska episoder. Här möter vi en försäljerska av smuggelcigaretter som utnyttjar den lag som säger att havande kvinnor inte får sättas i fängelse. Men efter sju barn börjar potensen på hennes härdade man att svikta. I Milano stiftar vi bekanstskap med en miljonärska som är upp över öronen förälskad i sin fattige men stilige älskare. Det vill säga enda tills han fullständigt demolerar hennes gnistrande Rolls Royce. Och i Rom förtjusas vi av en godhjärtad lyxprostituerad som avger ett kyskhetslöfte när en prästelev börjar bli närgången - till hennes mest pilska kunds stora förtret.

Domenico träffar Filumena första gången på en napolitansk bordell under andra världskriget. När ödet flera år senare sammanför dem inleder de en romans som kommer att vara i över två decennier. För vissa tar det nämligen så lång tid att ta sig till altaret.

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?

Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

A 52-year-old cab driver drives stolen cars to taxi his clients through the streets of Barcelona.

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest.

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

En ung man, klädd som mekaniker, kommer gående på det ännu inte öppnade nöjesfältet. Vid berg- och dalbanan stannar han till och placerar en svart liten låda på spåren. Parken öppnar för kvällen och köerna till berg- och dalbanan är mycket långa. På nöjesparken finns också den unge mannen. Plötsligt tar han fram en apparat, trycker på en knapp - och den svarta lådan exploderar. Samtidigt närmar sig berg- och dalbanevagnarna...

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of six Napolitean episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".

En gift tjänsteman inleder en affär med en maskinskriverska i Ozus porträtt av det kalla, trista, stereotypa livet för kontorsanställda i 50-talets Japan.

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.

Pasolinis tolkningar av några av historierna i "Tusen och en natt". Berättelserna kretsar runt teman som ödet, drömmar och förutsägelser. Episoderna flätas in i varandra i en vällustig filmatisering av den orientaliska sagovärlden.

Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

Augusto är en åldrande bedragare som arbetar med två yngre män: Roberto, som vill bli den italienska Johnny Ray, och Bruno, som kallas Picasso, har fru och dotter och vill måla.