Liliana Gerace

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.

While desperately looking for a change, the 40yo Anna - a bored housewife - decides to start gambling. Luck is not on her side though: she loses everything she had, she's almost broke. Caught up by a moment of madness, she steals her daughter’s lifetime savings. She even pawns her own car - , she’s willing to do anything to try to win… Her only wish is for her lotto number to be the winning one… She tries, and tries, and tries… Till the day when that lotto number gets drawn - is it the truth or has the gambling driven her crazy and she can’t distinguish between reality and a dream anymore?

A young man starts off on a quest for happiness and is told to head south by a wise astrologer. He later arrives at an ancient castle where two mysterious women live, Tsuki and Yuki. Both women fall in love with the young man. Meanwhile, the young man must face his destiny.

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.

En los montes cerca de Piacenza, en un chalet antes lujoso y actualmente en ruinas, vive una familia burguesa casi totalmente aislada. La madre tiene cuatro hijos, está ciega y no se ocupa de su educación ni de la administración de la casa. En cambio, Augusto, el hijo mayor y jefe de familia, parece estar siempre pensando en el momento en que se marchará de esa casa. Sus hermanos Alessandro, Leone y Giulia muestran trastornos mentales. Leone tiene epilepsia y es incapaz de razonar. Giulia, aparentemente normal, se ha quedado anclada en un estado totalmente infantil y ha establecido una relación morbosa con su hermano Alessandro. También éste sufre epilepsia, pero demuestra una fría lucidez mental, hasta el punto de urdir planes diabólicos para asesinar a toda la familia... (FILMAFFINITY)

El gobernador de Corinto, ante la ciudad asolada por la peste, echa la culpa a los cristianos, imitando el ejemplo de Nerón.

A bordo de un torpedero italiano, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, existen importantes diferencias entre el capitán y su segundo. Pero cuando el superior en rango queda herido, el teniente ha de llevar adelante su peligrosa misión.

The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.

Mara, una mujer de vida fácil, salva a una chica polaca de un accidente de tren donde sus padres mueren. A ella le gustaría adoptarla, y tendría éxito, si un antiguo proxeneta no volviera a su vida...

Roberto y Giacomo son dos primos que se encuentran en disputa por la herencia de un viejo tío, y además están enamorados de la misma mujer, Susanna (Yvonne Sanson), que se casa con Roberto (Amedeo Nazzari). Giacomo (Franco Fabrizi), vago, jugador y malvado, conspirará para destruir la felicidad de su primo y Susanna...

Rocco y Agrippina acaban de casarse. Cuando se dirigen a su casa en el campo, suena un disparo y él cae muerto. Un inocente es condenado por este crimen. El verdadero asesino, el Marqués de Roccaverdina, se confiesa al padre Silvio: los celos le habían enloquecido.

An American woman tries to break off her relationship with her Italian lover at Rome's Stazione Termini train station. This is Vittorio De Sica's original 89-minute "Terminal Station" which was released first in April 1953 as "Stazione Termini," the Italian title of Cesare Zavattini's story. A year later in May 1954, Columbia Pictures released a different version with the alternative title "Indiscretion of an American Wife" which producer David O. Selznick had re-edited and cut to a shortened 64 minutes, dramatically altering characterization by removing its establishing shots and neorealist touches.

El drama se desarrolla en la estación de tren de Roma (la estación Termini). Después de pasar unas vacaciones en Italia, Mary Forbes, una americana casada y con una hija, debe resolver un terrible dilema: coger el tren para regresar a su pais con su familia y reanudar su monótona vida o quedarse con Giovanni, su joven amante, su verdadero amor.

Stefano es perseguido por la policía y se esconde en casa de María, ella acepta ocultarlo y él se salva de ser detenido. Con el tiempo Stefano enmienda su rumbo y ambos se enamoran. Debido a lo poco que gana en su trabajo, Stefano decide dejarlo e ir a trabajar a Canadá en un buen puesto, y así volver con dinero suficiente para casarse con María y vivir juntos... pero el destino tendrá planes menos románticos.

Sandra busca a su hermana desaparecida, de la que se acaba de enterar que ejercía la prostitución.