Claudia Muzii

Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.

Malèna ist die schönste Frau in dem kleinen sizilianischen Dorf. Als ihr Mann in den Krieg eingezogen wird, wenden sich alle Männer des Dorfes ihr zu, die Frauen stricken aus Eifersucht ein Netz der Intrigen. Renato ist noch ein Junge aber schon besessen von Malèna ...

Der Altertumsexperte Professor Whitmore (Roland Wybenga) wird mit einem sehr kurzfristigen Auftrag von Dallas nach Budapest geschickt, um zu überprüfen, was Professor Roth alles über jahrtausendalte Steintafeln ans Licht gefördert hat. Roth ist unzuverlässig geworden, doch Whitmore trifft die Situation unvorbereitet: Roth ist paranoid und angsterfüllt, steckt Whitmore seine Aufzeichnungen geheim zu. Kurz darauf findet man ihn erhängt auf. Im Haus und im Hotel scheinen die Leute Whitmore zu beobachten und ein ihn warnendes Zimmermädchen wird in der Nacht brutal ermordet. Irritiert von all den Warnungen, stolpert Whitmore durch die fast menschenleere Großstadt und sucht nach Hinweisen, die das Rätsel aufklären können, doch er verstrickt sich immer tiefer in die Mysterien eines seltsamen Spinnenkults...

Everything revolves around a musical theater production staged by a modest Sicilian director who has to direct young inmates at the juvenile detention center in Nisida. However, the rehearsals, the performance at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, and the real and touching events of the city alternate without any consistency.

Antonio and Amalia are the parents of Naomi, a 17-year-old who's having her first love affair. Convinced he has passed the most complicated phase of family management, Antonio thinks he can finally enjoy life in the company of his beautiful wife but his plans are spoiled by the news of not one but two unexpected pregnancies.

A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.

Deeply depressed Francesca is being treated by a psychiatrist to overcome her relationship with a man who also had a past relationship with Francesca's mother. After her mother dies in a strange accident, Francesca also disappears under mysterious circumstances.