Lino Mattera

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.

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

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.

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