A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her...

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has...

A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of...

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and...

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering...

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer...

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.