Chantal Ughi

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby.

Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married.

In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue.

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.

Rome, 1973. Des hommes masqués kidnappent Paul, le petit-fils de J. Paul Getty, un magnat du pétrole connu pour son avarice, mais aussi l'homme le plus riche du monde. Pour le milliardaire, l'enlèvement de son petit-fils préféré n'est pas une raison suffisante pour qu’il se sépare d’une partie de sa fortune. Gail, la mère de Paul, femme forte et dévouée, va tout faire pour obtenir la libération de son fils. Elle s’allie à Fletcher Chace, le mystérieux chef de la sécurité du milliardaire et tous deux se lancent dans une course contre la montre face à des ravisseurs déterminés, instables et brutaux.

In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach Celestina’s sister, who emigrated to America several years earlier. The two children join the many Italian emigrants seeking a new life in America and arrive in an unknown metropolis, which, after several misadventures, they will learn to call home.