Enzo Cannavale

シチリア島のとある映画館の過去と現在を背景に、少年と映写技師が映画を通して心を通わせていく様と、時を超える映画への愛情を、感動的な音楽と繊細な人物描写で描き出す。本作が長編映画第2作となったG・トルナトーレ監督による映画史に残る至高の名作。日本でも1989年の東京地区単館ロードショーが40週間のロングランを記録。あまりの人気に、50分以上に及ぶ場面を復活させた［３時間オリジナル完全版］も後に公開された。 映画監督のサルヴァトーレは故郷の母から、映写技師のアルフレードの訃報を受け取り、トトと呼ばれていた少年時代を振り返る。戦後間もないシチリア島。父が戦地から帰らず、母と妹と暮らしていたトト。当時の彼の一番の楽しみは地元の映画館“パラダイス座”に入りびたることだった。そこで出会った映写技師アルフレードとの交際は後々まで続き、幸せな時もつらい時もトトはアルフレードから人生を学んでいった……。

Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.