Sergio Tofano

Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.

En tiempos en los que Roma vivía bajo la tiranía de un cruel gobernador, Rugantino cruzó con sus amigos una arriesgada apuesta: sería capaz de seducir a la bella Rosetta, casada con un hombre tan violento como celoso. El primer asalto lo acabó Rugantino con un dedo roto. El siguiente consistió en sustituir al modelo que debía posar junto a Rosetta, ambos desnudos, para un famoso escultor. A los pocos días, los dedos rotos de Rugantino eran ya dos.

Milán, 1630. El comisionado de salud de la ciudad es acusado por dos mujeres de haber propagado la peste.

Compuesta por tres episodios: En "La bomba alla televisione", Gassman interpreta a un director de cine anarquista. En "Concerto a tre pifferi" Manfredi trabaja para un rico empresario cascarrabias y desagradecido. En "Il prete", Sordi interpreta a un párroco de pueblo al que acusan de tener una amante.

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...

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.

A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.

En el Nápoles ocupado por los aliados opera el truhán Pepino, conocido como el "rey" entre sus vecinos por su extrema generosidad: roba a los ocupantes norteamericanos para distribuir a continuación buena parte del fruto de sus hurtos entre los necesitados.

An adaptation of Molière's play.

Dos estudiantes universitarios, él cursando medicina y ella química, se enamoran y se casan en contra del deseo de sus padres.

After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.

El mismo día en que encierran a su novio, boxeador, por haberle dado un puñetazo sin querer a un guardia, la joven y hermosa Nannina encuentra trabajo como cajera en un cafetería. Tanto el tímido y viudo patrón como un mujeriego vecino se enamoran de ella. El patrón le ofrece poner un mesón a su nombre con la condición de que acepte casarse con él. Ella acepta debido a su situación económica y que regentar ese mesón es la ilusión de su vida. Junto a casarse con su novio boxeador, que justo entonces sale de la cárcel y empiezan los problemas para la bella Nannina...

1739, Bolonia. El arzobispo Prospero Lambertini protege el amor de Carlo y la condesa Isabella, al que se oponen los poderosos. Va a Roma y se convierte en el papa Benedicto XIV.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

Giacomo Puccini, el hijo de un organista de la Toscana, logra el reconocimiento mundial como compositor de óperas y muere de cáncer de garganta en medio de una crisis artística, a la edad de sólo sesenta y seis.

Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.

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

Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.

A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.

After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.

Un joven de provincia, autor teatral, consigue que una compañía represente un trabajo suyo. Lo consigue tanto porque su tío es rico, como porque está enamorado de la hija del protagonista. Pero su tío, que quiere truncar sus aspiraciones cómicas, intentará arruinar la obra.

A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.

No hay una sinopsis.

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.

The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.

A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship.

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

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.