Tras la unificación de Italia (1860), el campesino Carmine Crocco regresa a su tierra y se da cuenta de que, bajo el gobierno de los Saboya, las condiciones de vida de la población son todavía peores que antes. Decide entonces formar grupos de insurgentes ("briganti") que logran algunas victorias y toman el castillo de Melfi. Pero, finalmente, el gobierno piamontés envía un nutrido ejército que acaba con la revolución.

Love blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a woman knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. But a sorceress predicts to Bradamante her beloved will die in battle at the hand of fellow Christian paladin Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.

Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.

1996 film by Carlo Lizzani

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.