Viaggio in Lucania
Traditions and social criticism in Basilicata, during a period of great imbalance between rich and poor and large-scale emigration.
Traditions and social criticism in Basilicata, during a period of great imbalance between rich and poor and large-scale emigration.
Traditions and social criticism in Basilicata, during a period of great imbalance between rich and poor and large-scale emigration.
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to.
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family's new chef. When the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.