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- The exploits of various guests and employees of a luxury resort over the span of a week.
- The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
- The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
- Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
- Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.
- The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
- When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.
- A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
- The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year-long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo.
- An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
- Salvadore returns home from and falls under the spell of his niece, who enjoys teasing her uncle as much as he enjoys it. Then he sets his sights on her mom. Salvadore proves to be irresistible to his brother's women.
- Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
- The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
- Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
- A group of young people want to have some fun in Aeolian islands. After they rescue two naked strangers, they decide to bare them all just like the two strangers do. The story is about the lifestyle of nudism, friendship and love.
- A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
- A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
- Jealous of a beautiful widowed midwife, her female neighbors in their small Sicilian village plot her ruin by refusing to have anything to do with their husbands.
- Italian mobster, Michele Barresi heads for the safer climate of Brooklyn after his chief rival is gunned down in the small Sicilian town of Corleone. Commissioner Berni learns of his involvement so Barresi takes out a contract on the only two people alive who can put him away. One is Barresi's hired assassin and the other is his girlfriend. Unable to save the girl, Berni manages to arrest the assassin, Salvatore Scalia. The plan is to get Scalia from Palermo to New York to testify against Barresi in court. But the mafia has no intentions of allowing either Berni, or Scalia to make it to New York alive.
- From his youth, Sicilian baron Paolo Castorini, is as attracted to women as they to him. However, he feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a serious thinker.
- After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
- While awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went through three American distributors in three years; first Motion Picture Sales Corporation that passed it off to Eagle Lion and finally to United Artists when they acquired Eagle Lion properties. Anna Magnani, a prostitute, is banished from Naples and returns to her home, a volcanic island off of southern Italy. There, she is accepted only by her younger sister and younger brother, and takes whatever job she can to get by. Rossano Brazzi, a diver by trade but a procurer for a prostitution ring---the white slave trade in those days---sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister who has fallen in love with him. Anna sleeps with Brazzi to convince the sister he is bad news but the sister thinks otherwise. Later, on Brazzi's boat, Anna is pumping air to him while he is on an underwater dive and she resorts to the only course she has left to save her sister. She stops pumping. Feeling guilt and remorse she then climbs the island volcano as it begins erupting.
- Violetta returns from a worldwide tour to unexpected news. Finding herself at a crossroads, she is forced to question everything.
- A comedy based on the Ancient Rome with Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi and Leslie Nielsen.
- How Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples.
- Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?
- Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
- A father doubts his son's masculinity, especially when he appears with a girlfriend who appears to be a boy.
- A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
- Carlo Verdone once again plays three characters from his comic repertoire: the naive boy, the logor teacher, and the Roman "cafone". In the first episode, Leo is desperate for his mother's sudden death, In the second episode, the striking Professor Callisto has a possessive relationship with the timid son who never had a girl and In the last story, the vulgar Moreno goes with his family of cafes in a luxury hotel in Taormina.
- Edda Ciano, the daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini,was held in detention on the island of Lipari (20 December 1945). Upon her exile, Edda felt sick and alone with the pressure imposed by the authorities. The sole sympathy that came to her hard feelings was from the head of communist party Leonida Borgiorno who belonged to an anti-fascist family. At the end of her detention period, their strong bonds did not cease despite all circumstances.
- Rosario Scimoni is twenty years old and lives in Catania at the beginning of this century. He loves two things in life: women and money and he is the secretary of the mayor who is his uncle, and the lover of the mayor's wife, but, unfortunately, he isn't paid for neither of his two jobs. When Rosario falls in love with Paola, partner af a socialist, he becames socialist and let the man of Paola go to jail to have her, but he has no success. When Mussolini and his fascists take the power, Rosario found himself fascist and he marries a women ugly but rich. He becames a gerarca (high fascist authority). When during World War II Sicily is invaded by the allied troops he camouflages himself as communist and at the end of the war he goes to Rome after losing all the money he had. In Rome Rosario changes again his skin and becames a Chistian Democrat after the Christian Democrat's victory in the elections of 1948. Trying to speculate on the land near Rome he ends in prison for five years and in 1953 Rosario closes his career dressed as a German selling faked German gadgets in the streets of Rome.
- During a summer weekend in the island of Panarea, a series of stories of love between the vacationers are intertwined.
- Ritornato is a story of a man who returns home to take care of his dying mother and promises to fulfill her last wish. To be buried alongside her father in Sicily. While there, he discovers a family secret that will change his life forever.
- A leading devil comes to earth to prevent the marriage of a papal aristocrat and a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
- Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Lea's disappearance is recalled by some audio excerpts from the original movie.
- Francesco (Bluteau) makes a living as a cartoonist and fixing stolen bikes in a Sicilian town; where manic director, Harry, comes to shoot his film with beautiful but unhappy actress Yasmin (Rouass). She befriends Francesco who falls for her whilst believing himself unworthy, but she too finds happiness for the 1st time, sparking reprisal from the director - whilst the local mafia chases Francesco
- A man is forced to retire from competitive swimming due to a heart condition.
- The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?
- In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.
- Gaetano is ambitious, he wants to show that he has what is required and commits crimes without hesitation. His only weakness is the step-daughter.
- The city of Messina is subject to a crime wave.
- Three Sicilian female student from Corleone burn by accident a bag with one million euros. They'll be forced to become professional robbers.
- Alex and his wife Laura are traveling along an isolated road. Their car breaks down and they are helped by a mysterious man. The man leads them into an abandoned hotel.
- When a young pub owner witnesses a suicide, her quiet life is thrown into turmoil. Between troubling amnesia and enigmatic reminiscences, she embarks on a journey to unravel the threads of her own history.