Enrico Palmieri

En dos pisos de un mismo edificio se producen un robo y un asesinato. El comisario Ingraballo se encarga del caso e irá desvelando las miserias de todos los que están en mayor o menor grado involucrados, entre ellos la bella Claudia Cardinale y su novio electricista. Basada en la novela "Quel pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana", de Carlo Emilio Gadda.

Lina, sirvienta de una familia acomodada, tras ser acusada de complicidad en un robo, termina en prisión. Allí conoce a a una delincuente habitual, que con su fuerte caracter, le hará aprender a ser mas independiente. (FILMAFFINITY)

Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.

Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.

Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.

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.

Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.

A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.

Durante la ausencia de su marido, que se encuentra en un viaje de pesca por los mares de la China, Carmella es seducida por Vito, un joven pescador.

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker

Tras el Tratado de Paz de París de 1947 los territorios italianos de Istria y Dalmacia pasan a ser de la Yugoslavia de Tito, provocando el éxodo de la población italiana. En la ciudad de Pula, Berto decide quedarse, pero su mujer quiere irse.