Mauro Spitaleri

True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.

Palerme, les années 70. La famille Ciraulo vit dans un quartier misérable de la ville. Suite à la mort de leur fille, tuée lors d’un règlement de compte, la famille découvre qu’il existe un fonds d’indemnisation des victimes de la Mafia… Le père décide alors d’investir dans une luxueuse voiture : plus qu’un symbole de richesse, elle deviendra l’instrument de leur défaite et de leur ruine.

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".

A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.