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A young director, lives with a girl. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the identity of the killer, aided by his beautiful girlfriend. Loosely based on a true story.

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Set in contemporary Naples, Dark Love focuses on the consequences of the brutal rape of a young woman by three teenage boys. Ciro is the only boy who shows remorse (he confesses his role, leading to recriminations from his fellow assailants), and part of the film is devoted to his experiences in an offshore juvenile prison. Simultaneously, the film follows the faltering efforts of the victim, Irene, to put her life back together, continue studying for university, and behave with some semblance of normality with her boyfriend and family. However, Ciro starts writing letters from prison to Irene, who eventually begins to read them. The two stories have a marked difference in tone. Ciro's experiences are unsurprisingly gritty and occasionally violent, while Irene, in a much more meditative depiction, is shown going about everyday life while still disturbed and alienated by what she has been through. The interweaving of the two stories is skillfully handled, the use of Naples as a setting is evocative, and the performances from the young protagonists are little short of astonishing. Director Antonio Capuano has created an understated, challenging and meditative film which avoids either cheap moralising or simplistic resolution.

June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is ''structure failure'' of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns. A true story.

The film is set in the Po Delta, a zone where methane was extracted with the danger of sinking the earth. Mr Morsiani, a lawyer, is moving to the area to estimate land; he has a love affair with Daria and everything seems to be fine. But in his work, Morsian has learned many facts, some of which are against the law: construction speculation and illicit extraction.

Young lawyer Bernardo returns home to discover that a man has committed suicide by jumping through a window of his house. His wife Maria says that she admitted the unknown man because he said that the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo starts to investigate about the man and the reasons for his suicide.

The real story of the killer who scared Florence for more than 25 years through the eyes of the father of a victim.

Three young people, three stories. Stefano is a jobless graduate and has recently lost his girlfriend. Giulio is a divorced plumber, has a fifteen year-old daughter and he's seeing Martina, younger than him. Lucia is a waitress in a pub and lives with a two bit singer. One night Giulio saves Stefano from suicide and takes him home. Lucia is betrayed by her man and gets the sack. Stefano stays at Giulio's home and tries to learn to be a plumber; while Lucia decides to become a call girl. One day Lucia calls up the other two to repair a broken tap and Stefano begins to think of her and falls in love, not knowing about her "job", while Giulio is abandoned by Martina.

It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver.

Gloria is a young waitress who works in a restaurant and dreams with open eyes.

Hadi, a young man on the run from a Third World country, in order to escape the harassment and abuse of people who should lead him abroad, jumps in the water and finally reaches a mainland.

Mirna wants to leave Buenos Aires for the Andes. She meets and falls in love with Monica but despite their budding relationship, she still feels the need to leave the city, seeking a place in the mountains she feels is calling her.

Riccardo (Jerzy Stuhr) and Carmen (Iaia Forte) are married and have a small son called Roberto. Riccardo teaches theoretical philosophy at university and occasionally frequents a brothel called the Mitos Club. A book he has written is published and he is invited onto a talk show called La Vita Altrui - Other People's Lives - hosted by Valeria (Giusi Cataldo) an ambitious young journalist and daughter of Giovanni (Renato De Carmine), a lawyer. Giovanni has a client on trial for corruption and this has negative effects both on Valeria's career and the ratings of her show. Jessica, a 14 year-old runaway, is the subject of one of Valeria's shows. Anna (Maria Consagra), a judge who specializes in juvenile crime and Jessica is just one of the cases she is investigating. Anna wants to live with Vittorio (Massimo De Francovich), a psychoanalyst with a twenty-year old daughter called Caterina. Theirs is a strange relationship characterized by Caterina's numerous half-truths and mysteries but this does not bother Vittorio. One of Vittorio's patients is Irene (Luisi Pasello), an upper class lady obsessed with killing her husband, Andreoli (Renato Carpintieri), a lawyer who is also familiar with the case of Jessica. Riccardo discovers that one of his students is also a prostitute at the Mitos Club but it seems that she does not recognize him. An unknown person consigns an envelope to Riccardo's house that contains a photograph showing Riccardo entering the Mitos Club.

A Polish girl decides to return home after eight years spent in various places in Europe. She makes the journey in a van and in the company of the members of a film crew who, on the long road from Rome to the Baltic coast, make a documentary about her and her story. The girl offers an account of some of the hardest moments in her life, from when she became involved in prostitution in Poland to when she arrived in Italy, the victim of violence, exploitation and abuse of all kinds.

Several episodes involve the numerous people who gather to form a film team and shoot a movie in Cinecittà Studios in Rome: a scriptwriter, a hopeful young actress, ex-revolutionaries of the 1968 riots, now middle-aged, and many more.