La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998)

A woman provokes sensual awakenings in a group of adolescent boys.

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.

A master auctioneer becomes obsessed with an extremely reclusive heiress who collects fine art.

Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, ... See full summary »

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates), a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible... See full summary »

A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.

The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years.

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.