Wanda Capodaglio

Muere fulminada por la corriente eléctrica la titular de una empresa de insecticidas. Sus hijos, esposas y nietos se presentan en la empresa familiar, donde reside el viudo, y se celebrará el funeral. Pero éste no será el único entierro que se deba celebrar...

Un pintor abstracto se enamora de una azafata. Cuando le pide que pose para él, ella lanza ciertas críticas sobre su obra, pero su amor sigue adelante. Tras una separación motivada por el trabajo de ella, el pintor descubre horrorizado que ha muerto en un accidente de coche.

Two youths who work together in a department store love each other but also their supervisor has his eyes on the young girl.

In 1925, young Florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girlfriend Bianca. Here befriends Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. After a resident is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets her wife Milena at the hospital, falling in love with her and leaving Bianca. Maciste is killed, again by fascists, while Ugo is wounded and he seeks shelter in a nearby house. Here he falls in love with Gesuina and the two marry. Milena's husband dies, but she and Mario part ways. Later, Mario is arrested by the police.

In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.

Un joven oficial de caballería pide un préstamo a un usurero. Cuando éste descubre que es el amante de su hija, decide robarle, pero la muchacha frustra sus planes. El padre la echa de casa y denuncia los hechos al coronel del regimiento. El oficial se ve forzado a casarse con ella, aunque no la ama...

After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. Written by Guy Bellinger

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.

Grazia de Plessans abandons her studies in a convent following a mystical crisis. In her paternal house, she studies music together with maestro Claudio Morillot with whom she ends up falling in love.

The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her. But, having become rich and famous, he soon falls in love with the Princess of Chaban and abandons the woman to whom he owes his success.