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Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Haunted by wartime traumas, Giovanni's tumultuous spirit finds solace in the wisdom of an elderly lady who unveils his extraordinary gift: the ability to harness the spirit of a departed soul and heal the tormented.

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.

Paletta steals from a shrine to pay a prostitute. Fefè, an aging homosexual, attends his lover's wake and steals his ring. Lazzaro is killed by the mafia. Totò, a humble messiah, resurrects the man, who rushes off to take his revenge.

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year old Edward from Ghana, guest of the refugee center which is the subject of great debate in the village, asks to carry the statue in the annual procession and to stand next to the white locals that bear its cart. The community is divided. On a journey exploring the source of fear and prejudice against "the others", the inhabitants of this small European village are called upon to question their own identity, starting with the very icon of their own belief: a black Jesus.

Set in apocalyptic Palermo peopled by ignorant, inbred, flatulent gluttons and deformed Mafiosi, a dark comedy which centers on a poor family of three-middle aged brothers who are coerced, by local Mafia honchos, into hiding a mysterious old man known as the Uncle from Brooklyn in their home.

A look at the difficult living conditions in two small mining villages in Bolivia as seen through the eyes of the young children who are forced to work there.

The gang left town and a new gang entered the town. And took the city over until the old gang returns and has war.

On Christmas' night in 1996, in the stretch of sea between Malta and Sicily, a storm caused the shipwreck of a boat loaded with immigrants from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

CCA' is a poetic documentary film that portrays the rural life of Sicily. A journey among humble fishermen, farmers and merchants who live their lives in small villages between the coast line and the mountains of the island. The Etna, (for the Sicilians the "mother" and the origin of all things in the island), is the epicenter of this journey that does not only represent the daily routine of this people, but it transcends an invisible boundary line, to step into a reality that is almost an intrinsic dreamlike memory in each human being. CCA' is a portrait of a type of Western men who is still accustomed to its environment, to the natural circle of life, its tempo and the balance between life and death.