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After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War.

Harry Price, Juliana and some incompetent European gangsters kidnap an American gangster who they think has a lot of money.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.

An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an 18-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.

A young playboy inherits 13 antique chairs and decides to sell them for money--then finds out where the real money is.

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.

Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

A millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.

Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.

Based on Carlo Collodi's classic novel, this mini-series is about an animated puppet named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.