Lino Mattera

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

Don Vincenzo is a well respected boss from Naples, but he protects people from other criminals, like gypsies, loan sharks and Don Bufalo...but as they say in Naples, a Mammasantissima either ends in jail or inside a grave.

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.