Italy 1935

The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.

Gold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his money.

Young composer Vincenzo Bellini is still an unknown music student in Napoli when he finds in a maiden's eyes the inspiration for the aria that would become his most beloved one, "Casta Diva".

In the 17th century the Spanish governor of Naples falls in love with a beautiful woman and puts her husband in jail so he can seduce her.

A story of the romance of Maria Baschkirtzeff and Guy de Maupassant beginning with their first meeting leading to other meetings and the development of their ill-fated romance.

Italian pioneers in turn of the century South America: the father helps build a railway.The daughter reconnects with a disillusioned doctor she had met on the boat coming in. The story follows their grandson and into WWI.

Simultaneously filmed British version of Casta Diva: period romance set in Naples where a woman falls in live with and inspires a composer from Sicily but ultimately rejects him.

Corrado Valeri, naval officer, has a wife who is a bit frivolous while he is a bit too jealous. This situation has repercussions on his military life with continuous failures.

Events leading up to the assassination of Duke Alessandro by his cousin Lorenzino in 16th century Florence, with the hope that there would be an uprising of the exiled and discontented against a tyrannical Medici monarch.

On February 26, 1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on Elba. He is marching with 1 000 men towards Paris to rebel against the conditions imposed by the Congress of Vienna.

Theatrical adaptation: An upper middle class family can't pay its debts and must relocate to the country. The daughter teaches English lessons and the son, addicted to gambling, must also work.

In 1880s Paris, an attractive Russian art student is befriended by the famous writer Maupassant.She is taken to dance palaces and Montmartre cafes.

A girl comes back to the hotel under the fumes of alcohol, mistakes a young man's room for her own and ends up in his bed.