故事发生在风景如画的西西里岛，贵族塞法罗男爵（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）是一位没落的贵族，和妻子纱利雅（Margherita Girelli 饰）之间沉闷的婚姻让他感到十分的厌倦，再加上其美艳不可方物的表妹安吉拉（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉 Stefania Sandrelli 饰）的不断勾引，塞法罗决心要甩掉纱利雅。可是，离婚在当时的意大利系违法行为，因此，想要从婚姻里脱身，塞法罗男爵只得另觅他径。
经过塞法罗男爵的种种“努力”，他终于将妻子杀死却只被判了极短的刑期，在铁窗之后，塞法罗男爵幻想着今后幸福生活的种种，心中不禁充满了希冀与兴奋。然而，当自由来临之时，他的生活真的会如同想象的一般美好吗？

The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.

故事描述西班牙内战后被放逐的游击队首领，在二十年后终于让故国的警长利用其孝心诱骗回国加以围杀。

一伙歹徒想出了一个计划，要偷走两个贩毒团伙之间的一场比赛：这五个骗子将面临比他们更大的问题。

In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to stay, she seeks refuge in an under-construction attic. There, she meets a young man, leading to a short-lived romance. He opens her eyes to the wonders of the economic boom shaping the capital in those years. Despite the chaos of buses, protests, and big stores, Silvana chooses to make Rome her home.