An endless line of women, bent over the towpath of the Naviglio Grande, washing clothes one after the other. It almost seems that, if Baldassini had continued his overview, the whole canal would have been filled with industrious housewives, as far as the eye could see - the same breadth that the canals offer as they head south along the Lombard countryside.
An endless line of women, bent over the towpath of the Naviglio Grande, washing clothes one after the other. It almost seems that, if Baldassini had continued his overview, the whole canal would have been filled with industrious housewives, as far as the eye could see - the same breadth that the canals offer as they head south along the Lombard countryside.
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family.
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored socialite Patricia -- spiral out of control, he suffers a mental breakdown. His doctor recommends that he choose just one girlfriend -- but can he choose in time before they discover his deception?
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.