En stilfærdig, beskeden kardinal finder sig pludselig forfremmet til pave i Rom. Han har aldrig før været i rampelyset og bliver slået helt ud, da han konfronteres med menneskeskaren på Peters-pladsen. For at undgå en international krise hidkalder Vatikanet en ikke-religiøs psykiater (Nanni Moretti), til at finde ud af, hvad paven fejler.

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.

The grown-ups of Tollembeek make a deal with the suspicious Igor. The Russian can dump all his garbage and toxic waste in the village for a year, and he will pay the inhabitants a whole lot of money. Urbanus seizes the opportunity to finally buy his engagement ring for Miss Pussy. But of course, things don't go according to plan...

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens.

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.

Mel Funn, en afdanket filminstruktør med en genial idé. Han skal lave verdens første stumfilm i moderne tid! Filmselskabet vender tommelfingeren nedad, men da han lover at få de største Hollywood stjerner med på rollelisten, får han grønt lys. Sammen med hans vanvittige kollegaer begynder den vilde stjernejagt, samtidigt med at en ond filmgigant gør alt for at stoppe planerne.

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

William Burke og William Hare prøver at arbejde sig op i 1820'ernes Edinburg. Efter endnu en mislykket forretning, kommer de en dag tilbage til Hares hus, hvor de finder udlejeren død. De diskuterer hvad de skal gøre med liget, og får den lysende idé, at de kan sælge det til medicinsk forskning ind i byen som de har hørt betaler godt.. Spørgsmålet er nu, hvordan kan de finde tilstrækkeligt med lig...

Med denne stærkt personlige erindringsrejse og utilslørede hyldest til byernes by, Rom, demonstrerer Federico Fellini med legende lethed, hvorfor han anses for en af sin generations største filmskabere. Denne overdådige biografi, fyldt med fantastiske fantasibilleder og monumental storhed, begynder med Fellinis barndom ude på landet. I skolen studerer han koncentreret det klassiske Roms historie, og som ung mand kommer han endelig til at opleve byen på tætteste hold, da han ved 2. Verdenskrigs udbrud ankommer til den historiske stad. Gennem en række visualiserede drømmesyn og tilsyneladende usammenhængende episoder beretter Fellini en mængde spredte historier om sin elskede by - hvorefter beskueren kan træde et imaginært skridt tilbage og åndeløst betragte det samlede værk i sin helhed.