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- A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
- The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year-long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo.
- Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
- A group of teenagers are on holiday in the Aeolian islands.
- A comedy based on the Ancient Rome with Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi and Leslie Nielsen.
- While awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went through three American distributors in three years; first Motion Picture Sales Corporation that passed it off to Eagle Lion and finally to United Artists when they acquired Eagle Lion properties. Anna Magnani, a prostitute, is banished from Naples and returns to her home, a volcanic island off of southern Italy. There, she is accepted only by her younger sister and younger brother, and takes whatever job she can to get by. Rossano Brazzi, a diver by trade but a procurer for a prostitution ring---the white slave trade in those days---sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister who has fallen in love with him. Anna sleeps with Brazzi to convince the sister he is bad news but the sister thinks otherwise. Later, on Brazzi's boat, Anna is pumping air to him while he is on an underwater dive and she resorts to the only course she has left to save her sister. She stops pumping. Feeling guilt and remorse she then climbs the island volcano as it begins erupting.
- Edda Ciano, the daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini,was held in detention on the island of Lipari (20 December 1945). Upon her exile, Edda felt sick and alone with the pressure imposed by the authorities. The sole sympathy that came to her hard feelings was from the head of communist party Leonida Borgiorno who belonged to an anti-fascist family. At the end of her detention period, their strong bonds did not cease despite all circumstances.
- The Aeolian Islands (Sicily) have the most important grave goods of Greek masks in the world. They were discovered by archaeologist Luigi Bernabò Brea in 1948 in the necropolis of Lipari and they are preserved in the Aeolian Archeological Museum. If the humanity now knows the characters of the Greek theater, it is because of these masks. A young explorer, Vanessa, will drive this journey discovering and revealing the reasons of the ancient relationship between the people of the Aeolian Islands and the cult of the Mask. The event of the modern Aeolian Carnival becomes a tale that narrates the anxieties and dreams of ordinary people who face death through the power and the symbols of the mask.
- 1995–TV Episode