Screenplay: Giovanni Boccaccio

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Angela Luce

Plot Pasolini wrote, directed and stars in this richly textured epic based on eight tales by 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Pasolini weaves the stories together into a bawdy tapestry of...

Direction Jirí Trnka

Plot The story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but daft lady in medieval Venice.

Direction Harry Kümel · Michel Boisrond · Walerian Borowczyk · Alain Schwartzstein

Cast Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Anne Fontaine · Thierry Bearzatto · Lucienne Bruinooge

Plot This erotic series is an anthology of libertine stories adapted from literary novels from the 18th century to present

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Lello Arena · Kasia Smutniak · Jasmine Trinca · Kim Rossi Stuart

Plot Florence, Thirteenth Century. The "Black Death" is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences...

Direction David Leland

Cast Hayden Christensen · Mischa Barton · Christopher Egan · Tim Roth

Plot Young Florentines regale one another in the Italian countryside while the black plague decimates their city.

Direction Bruno Corbucci

Cast Andrea Aureli · Lino Banfi · María Baxa · Isabella Biagini

Direction Pilar Miró

Cast Emiliano Redondo · Enrique San Francisco · Enric Arredondo · Enriqueta Carballeira

Direction Jesús Fernández Santos · Jaime Chávarri · Pilar Miró · Antonio Giménez Rico

Cast José Riesgo · Guillermo Díaz-Plaja · Carmen Maura · Mery Leyva

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Ivy Duke · Werner Krauss · Randle Ayrton

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Joan Fontaine · Louis Jourdan · Godfrey Tearle · Joan Collins

Plot The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a...

Direction Mino Guerrini

Cast Enza Sbordone · Antonio De Leo · Alida Rosano · Francesco D'Adda

Direction Alberto Isaac

Cast Cristina Baker · Bruno Rey · Pancho Córdova · Gregorio Casal

Direction Alberto Bevilacqua

Cast Monica Guerritore · Rodolfo Bigotti · William Berger · Mario Feliciani

Plot 14th century - the Black Death is killing millions across Europe and civil wars are adding to the turmoil and chaos. A young teenage couple is sent to live in...

Direction Franco Rossetti

Cast Don Backy · Barbara Bouchet · Renzo Montagnani · Vittorio Congia

Plot The story is set in the Middle Ages. The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet...

Direction Pupi Avati

Cast Sergio Castellitto · Erika Blanc · Paolo Graziosi · Alessandro Haber