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- A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
- The shy and clumsy Latin professor Alessandro falls in love with a psychologist spying on her from a hole made in a wall.
- At the end of the 19th century, in a farmhouse in the countryside of northern Italy, lives Maria, a young peasant girl who is by nature, simple and pragmatic. The farming community she lives in is tied up in its own cultural traditions steeped in magic and superstition. A belief of the place wills that, when the father in a family dies, it is the male child's duty to close his eyes. This way, the son inherits his father's wisdom and prevents the father from being condemned to watch the world changes that he can't live in. Maria ingenuously, betrays this social convention and her act determines her fate: the people's gossip soon isolates her and becomes an obstacle to her simple wish to marry and have children. Selva, a woman considered a witch because of her behavior which is unusual for these times. she arrives in the community with her companion Emilio Errani, an idealistic inventor who wants to try to modernize the back-breaking traditional farming methods. Maria becomes their friend, and this friendship seems to confirm the voices that accuse the girl: Maria too is a "masca", a witch. The community feels threatened by the changes innovations bring and reacts to Errani's efforts forcing him to abandon his projects. At the same time, the community wants to protect its culture based on the mysteries of nature, this inevitably harms Maria: the village Teacher she loves abandon's her, giving into popular opinion. Abandoned, this is the moment Maria needs Selva most but she's nowhere to be found, the woman has mysteriously disappeared. These experiences, her disenchant, hardens Maria yet she does not want to give up her dream of motherhood. She offers herself in marriage to Errani even though she doesn't love him. Just when they are setting off to start a new life Maria discovers the truth: she can't have children. So her fate pushes her to a drastic choice one that is unthinkable to her forthright nature: she goes toward an end that is both mysterious and magical.
- A man suffering from pre-wedding nerves gets his wish granted for a double life. Whilst asleep one night he splits into two. One half stays happily married, and the other has affairs with a television presenter and a homicidal teenager.
- In the 1832 Marquess Ottavio (Riondino) and his friend Paolo (Hendel) left Napoli to reach Sicily following same itinerary of poet Goethe. After few miles they are assaulted and robbed by bandits. They decided to stop in the Cilento, in the beautiful villa of a Prince their friend. This last will try in all the way to make his inconstant daughter to marry one of the two.