La terra trema

ในอิตาลีช่วงปลายยุค 1940 แม่คนหนึ่งต้องตัดสินใจส่งลูกชายไปอยู่ทางตอนเหนือ เพื่อให้เขามีโอกาสได้สัมผัสชีวิตใหม่ที่ห่างไกลความยากจน

ในภาพยนตร์สร้างจากเรื่องจริงเรื่องนี้ หลังสเตฟาโน่ คุกคีถูกจับในโรมด้วยข้อหายาเสพติด เขาต้องทนทุกข์จากการคุมขังในเวลาหนึ่งสัปดาห์ซึ่งจะเปลี่ยนชีวิตครอบครัวของเขาไปตลอดกาล

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

ระหว่างไปเยี่ยมลูกสาวที่ติดคุกอยู่ในฝรั่งเศส พนักงานแท่นขุดเจาะน้ำมันสุดห้าวจากโอคลาโฮมาก็พยายามตามหาเบาะแสที่อาจช่วยล้างมลทินให้ลูกสาว

In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna’s son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Guiseppe is not yet there...

Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.