2024 film directed by Alejandro Monteverde

Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.
Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

1998 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

2003 film directed by Audrey Wells

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

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.

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

2019 film directed by Fernando Meirelles

艾丹·特纳(《霍比特人》《波尔达克》)要演大画家&科学家达芬奇了。他将主演新剧《列奥纳多》(工作标题，尚未正式定名)，聚焦列奥纳多·达·芬奇在意大利文艺复兴时期的生活和作品。
这是一部英语剧，Frank Spotnitz(《X档案》)任运作人，Steve Thompson(《神探夏洛克》)编剧，Daniel Percival(《高堡奇人》)执导，Lux Vide和Big Light Productions等是出品方，意大利国家电视台(RAI)等也参与。共8集，今年内开拍。

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

幼年时的一场滑雪事故，令爱丽丝（阿尔芭·洛尔瓦彻 Alba Rohrwacher 饰）摔伤了腿，并且这伤痛将永久的伴随和改变她的一生。天才少年马蒂亚（卢卡·马里内力 Luca Marinelli 饰）在他友善纯洁的外表下掩藏了一个十分黑暗的秘密。他那智力发育不全的孪生妹妹带给他的并非怜惜或是责任感，正相反，他希望永永远远的丢开这个恼人的累赘，一天，他真的这么做了。
幼年的创伤带给孩子的有时是超越预期的打击，爱丽丝和马蒂亚这两个普通又特殊的人，他们带着创伤长大，成熟。他们就像数列里的质数，冰冷、孤独、坚硬，渴望着同类的出现和靠近，却又无法自持的要去彼此伤害。他们相遇，相爱，相互折磨然后分离去寻找各自的伴侣，但命运又注定他们无法分开。在这个秋天，这两个质数一般的男女，他们能否相互拯救，又或者，等待着他们的，是共赴隐藏在黑暗中的寂灭。

1971 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

卡尔维诺钟爱童话这一艺术形式，熟稔童话的特征、手法，自然也偏爱在小说中运用童话的手法来写现实的人和事。《我们的祖先》是这一艺术手法占主导地位的标志。
《我们的祖先》三部曲，由《分成两半的子爵》（1952）、《树上的男爵》（1957）、《不存在的骑士》（1959）三部小说组成。 三部曲没有一个共同的人物或共同的情节脉络来把它们连缀；但共同的思想内涵，共同的艺术探索，把它们合成一个有机的整体，即这三部小说都采用童话的手法，来表现当代社会里的人被摧残，苦苦追求自身的完整性的遭际。

这是作者的第一部长篇小说，他在第二次世界大战期间参加抵抗运动，而《通向蜘蛛巢的小径》就是根据这段经历写成。