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- This film relates several disparate storylines, each representing a different type of lifestyle within Italian society at the time, through their common impersonal relationship to a social event of global importance to Italian society at the time: the death and impending funeral of the long-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.
- Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.
- The story of a triangular relationship between a theater director, an actress and an actor.
- Upon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director Fausto Morelli. Morelli, after having seen the work, is faced with a puzzling, complex and, in part, incomprehensible work. Helped by Abramo Malonga's young widow and by the notes left by his deceased friend, and again by his personal memories, the Italian director tries to reconstruct and complete the film. Fausto's work proceeds with difficulty, not only because of the problems that the film poses to him, but because of the problems that arise in his daily life. After a long crisis, after which he returns to Pisa with his old party mates and abandons himself to love and his own solitude, Fausto takes up the work of his African friend again, closing it with a last invention, in which, with daring metaphor, has refigured the human condition of our time.
- Mr. Rossi lives in a small town. He works in a large financial company and is considered to be rather original and eccentric by his colleagues because he doesn't own a car and insist on rollerskating to and from work. One afternoon, from his office windows, he catches sight of an intriguing girl and decides to follow her...
- A group of insane persons run away from the probably just as crazy civilization.
- The story is set in the Middle Ages. The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata.
- A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. The story is told in a bizarre way of fast cuts, repetitive dialogue and extreme satire.
- Enrico is a photographer with questionable ethics.
- The love between the printer Valerio and the Jewish Wanda in Florence in 1938, when the racial laws had just come into force.
- Destined by his father-in-law to succeed him in the domain of company, Marco is not interested in both power and union demands. Even his wife Luciana is indifferent both to the parties organized by her father and to the executive meetings.
- A father and son, separated by the "generation gap," discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.
- A meditation on Art through the elements of the most famous tragedy.
- Rossini (Adalberto Maria Merli), history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.
- A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.
- By all accounts, this slick production aims at exposing the corruption of southern Italian Catholicism. A young seminarian who can't be ordained because of a speech impediment leaves the seminary to take a job with a wealthy baroness' crippled son. The seminarian is a lustful and mendacious rascal, but soon after taking the baroness to bed he heads off to Lourdes with the boy, ostensibly in hope of a miracle for the lad. Instead, he seduces a very devout woman who is visiting the site with her grandmother, who dies. This is just the main story.
- A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.
- An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.
- After Richard's sister seminary, from which he was in intimate relationships, left him and married a young man joins a commune of hippies and goes on a dangerous journey.
- Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
- An ironic peek into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.
- Maria visits her paralyzed widower father Guido at a hotel. She tries seducing him. Her friend Therese arrives, and Guido starts an affair with her, leading to tragic consequences. Objective plot points without opinions or introduction.
- A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".
- A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which lead them to steal and prostitute themselves, for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence. They must fight for their survives. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape. But fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are deadly trance.
- Svitol has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed.
- Four young Romans, united by their hatred against the bourgeois order, decide to resort to proletarian expropriations and resort to armed violence.
- A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty.
- Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first is introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other one is happy and shallow. Despite their differences, they share accommodation. Paolo runs an "alternative" kind of library with a colleague. Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully until suddenly Paolo falls in love with a customer of his own library - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn't react well to the fact he's got to share the same space with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea. He flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she's attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attractiveness of Carlo. This love triangle comes to an end when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels remorseful and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.
- Little boy Tommaso has several imaginary friends who like to play cruel pranks on the staff in his house. When new maid Mara arrives, Tommaso bonds with her, but his jealous imaginary friends devise the cruelest prank yet for her.
- A mysterious murderer has already killed seven people using the deadly venom of a snake from Martinique which causes immediate death with the victim's face turning into a horrible mask. A young and ingenious police lieutenant is called on the case