Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."

A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.

An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.

A man leaves home on errands and is "kidnapped" by a sunny Rome.

Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.

An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.

The isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old child named Mirka.