Napoli 2012. Fiskehandleren Luciano overtales af sin familie til at stille op til Big Brother, da der holdes audition i byen. Prøverne går godt, og drømmen om rigdom og berømthed vokser, men ventetiden gør Luciano desperat, og han er overbevist om, at tv-stationen overvåger ham for at tjekke, om han er egnet til Big Brother-huset. Han sætter sig således for at bevise dette ved at ændre sin adfærd markant. Familien konfronterer ham med virkeligheden, men Lucianos virkelighed er allerede en helt anden.

Begær og magi tørner sammen i tre fabler, der foregår i hver sit eventyrrige. En frigid dronning indgår en djævelsk pagt for at få et barn. En lidderbuks af en konge forelsker sig i lyden af en smuk kvindestemme, men ved ikke, at den tilhører en grim, gammel kone. En anden konge ønsker at finde sin datter et passende parti, men distraheres skæbnesvangert af et højst usædvanligt kæledyr.

En gangster der går under navnet ”Samurai”, ønsker at gøre dele af Rom til det nye Las Vegas. Alle de lokale bandeledere har besluttet sig for at arbejde sammen for at nå det fælles mål. Men freden varer ikke evigt.

Judah Rosendahl er en retskaffen og ærlig øjenlæge med en succesfuld praksis, en hengiven kone, børn og et dejligt hjem. Han har en affære med stewardessen Delores, og i et par uger føler han sig ung igen. Men da det går op for Delores, at han ikke vil forlade familien, begynder korthuset at falde fra hinanden. Hun bliver rasende og truer med at fortælle om affæren. I ren desperation klager han sin nød til sin bror, der har forbindelser til mafiaen.

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

”Den store skønhed” er et portræt af et feststemt, pyntesygt og dekadent Rom med den aldrende forfatter Jep som karismatisk fikspunkt og den evige stad som det billedskønne bagtæppe.

Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the attention of his vacant father—struggles to fill the void brought on by his mother's sudden death.

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.

When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.

Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor.

Filmmaker Dan Klores examines the strange love affair of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. Pugach is a successful attorney in 1950s New York when he meets much-younger Riss. The pair date, but Riss breaks off contact with Pugach upon learning his claims of divorce are false. Discovering that Riss was engaged to another man, Pugach hires some men to throw lye in her face, and he serves 14 years in prison for the crime.

Colin Daimonds liv bliver vendt op og ned. Hans kone vil forlade ham, fordi hun har en affære med en fransk tjener. Hvad har Colin gjort forkert? Han har elsket hende, passet hende op og købt blomster til hende. Er det takken? At hun knuser hans hjerte og tramper på det? Han er ulykkelig, skuffet og vred. Da smerten bliver for stor, slår det klik, og Colin kaster sig over sin kone, der flygter fra hjemmet. Men Colins barske kammerater bakker ham natuligvis op.

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.

Jane er en enlig mor, der er indstillet på at beskytte sin teenagedatter Betsy mod livets barske realiteter. Da Betsy forelsker sig i en hvervet mand, prøver Jane sit bedste for at styre Betsy væk fra hjertesorg. Jane er ikke klar over, at hun og hendes datter er ved at lære mig

Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.