Pina Piovani

A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.

Un gran éxito en su momento para esta adaptación de Alberto Moravia, en torno a una hermosa joven, que redimirá su más bien escabroso pasado gracias al amor puro y desinteresado.

A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, the doctor, instead of giving him a sedative, gives him poison. The man goes out of town to visit a client and, unaware that he is wanted by the police, is more than once about to swallow the pills; but every time an obstacle prevents him from fulfilling his purpose.

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

Una joven viuda se ve obligada a prostituirse. Así conoce a un hombre de provincias que de paso por Roma, busca aventuras.

Un grupo de hombres de diferentes circunstancias y personalidades se reúne en un monasterio para seguir un curso de revalorización espiritual. Comprende de un fabricante de velas, un político, un exprisionero, un novelista y un ladronzuelo tratando de eludir a la policía. El político, un ex líder partidista, sufre el remordimiento de haber causado la muerte de tres inocentes. El prisionero, un enfermo y moribundo, posiblemente, carece de valor para visitar a su esposa que puesto que está ahora felizmente casada. El novelista tiene la responsabilidad moral por los delitos cometidos por los jóvenes descarriados por sus escritos, que gana mucho por su trabajo, pero es demasiado desmoralizador para continuar. El fabricante de velas es poco probable que reciba cualquier beneficio de su retiro al monasterio. Entrelazadas con las historias de estos hombres es el drama de un sacerdote que, abrumado por la duda, aún tiene la fuerza interior para seguir adelante.

A young man in love with a girl whose father--his employer--does not approve of him, disguises himself as a hunchback to get into the father's good graces.

The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.

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

En la época de Luis XIV en la frontera entre Francia y Saboya, el soldado Mandrin, acusado injustamente de contrabando de tabaco, se escapa y se hace jefe de una banda de contrabandistas.

Espósito es un ladronzuelo que tima a los turistas en Roma, pero tiene la mala fortuna de volver a coincidir con una de sus víctimas. Se inicia entonces una larguísima persecución por parte del policía Bottoni, que al fin logra detenerle. Pero en un descuido, Espósito logra huir. Los superiores de Bottoni le comunican que, si no logra capturar al timador, se quedará sin trabajo. Así que Bottoni, para atraparlo, llegará a introducirse en su círculo familiar.

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.

Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.

The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...

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

Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.

Venice Film Festival 1942

In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.