Giovanni Grasso

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.

Totò da vida a Antonio Caccavallo, un voluntarioso agente de policía viudo, que vive con su padre y su hijo, y que sueña con un ascenso que suponga un aumento de sueldo. Pero un error en una redada le lleva a detener a la joven Carolina, que para más inri realiza una tentativa de suicidio en la comisaría. Para arreglar el desaguisado, el comisario encomienda a Caccavallo devolver a la joven a su pueblo, a algún familiar que pueda hacerse cargo de ella. La misión llevará aparejadas divertidas peripecias, que ayudarán a conocerse a la "extraña pareja".

Basada en cuatro relatos de Luigi Pirandello; "La tinaja", "El abanico", "El certificado" y "Un frac estrecho".

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

Dos jóvenes adolescentes tienen un hijo debido a un descuido.

"Spy Heart" - A fisherman is seduced by a young spy who has helped his brother, blind from birth, to get a job as a singer on the radio. But the young man is not satisfied with that relationship and regrets the girlfriend he had. A great emotion returns the sight to the brother and the fisherman, moved and repentant, returns to his ancient love.

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.

Un domingo en la costa de Ostia con el cavalier Peppe Passaguai, su mujer y sus tres hijos.

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.

Giuseppe, recién salido de prisión, va a a buscar al párroco de un pueblo para pedirle trabajo. Pero reverendo está gravemente enfermo y Giuseppe no da con él. Empujado por el hambre, el hombre roba en el cajón de las limosnas y es sorprendido. En su huida, se pone una sotana y se va del pueblo. A partir de ahí será confundido por un párroco.

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

Se anima a un joven prodigio musical dotado a perseguir sus talentos.

Historia sobre la peregrinación en tren a Loreto de un grupo de enfermos y mutilados.

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.

La compositora sevillana Consuelo se enamora de un tenor, mientras su primo intenta vender una loción capilar que ha inventado.

The second part (Part One released the same year was Noi vivi) of the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s debut novel We the Living , a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand's first statement against communism.

Part One (Part Two was released as Addio Kira!) At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out. Meanwhile, a Party leader, Andrei, also loves her, and she feigns love for him to get political protection for Leo and money to pay for his TB treatment. But can Leo forgive her being Andrei's mistress?

A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a joke made by his cousin.

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.

Un grupo de marginales celebran la Nochebuena cantando y bailando por la calle. Paralelamente, un millonario celebra la fiesta ofreciendo una gran cena a sus amigos. El millonario recibe un telegrama de su hermana de América que le anuncia su visita después de más de veinte años sin verse. El protagonista, que siempre hizo ver a su hermana a través de las cartas que lleva una vida ordenada con sus hijos, necesita a dos personas que simulen este papel. Aconsejado por su mayordomo, los ladronzuelos “la Inglesita” y “el Piruli” se hacen pasar por sus hijos, y “Currinchi” por el profesor de ambos. La hermana del millonario se encuentra encantada con sus falsos sobrinos y aunque finalmente se desvela todo el enredo, ya encariñada con ellos decide llevárselos a América a empezar juntos una nueva y honrada vida.

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...

Venice Film Festival 1938

Directed by Romolo Marcellini.

Directed by Amleto Palermi

Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.

Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in love. The old Duke, remorsing, tries to find his daughter but he doesn't manage and leaves everything to his latest concubine, Livia, while Nunzio and Paolina will live in misery. The only copy of this film was destroyed in World War Two

A countryside adventure: two siblings, ill at ease in a subordinate social position, challenge the owner Alessandro; Giuseppe doesn’t want to work for him, while Carmela wants to force him to love her. However, class conflict isn’t hidden by emotions and characters.

A man sentenced to life imprisonment who escaped from prison, commits suicide so as not to be an obstacle for his wife and daughter, who had built a new life.