Captured by a ruthless criminal gang, Diabolik and Ginko find themselves face to face. Locked in a cell that has no way out, and convinced they are going to die, Diabolik reveals his mysterious past to the inspector. Meanwhile, Eva Kant and Altea are each desperately searching for their two loves. Will the paths of the two rivals cross at last?
Crisilde
Students Adalberto and Luna meet and fall in love. Far from home, they can't get to know each other's family. This has to change once Luna gets pregnant. Adalberto first paints such an unflattering portrait of them that Luna says: "you talk as if they were monsters ". Little does she know.
Nelly
거대 카르텔의 뒤를 봐주며 승승장구한 이탈리아 최고의 마피아 변호사 '피아차'. 눈먼 비자금 1억 유로를 가로채 잇속을 챙기려던 그는 뒤늦게 자신이 무자비한 마피아 조직의 검은 돈을 잘못 건드렸음을 알게 된다. 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는 잔혹한 마피아 전쟁의 표적이 된 피아차는 자신의 목숨은 물론, 가족 그리고 연인 '마이아'까지 돌이킬 수 없는 위험에 빠뜨리게 되는데… 사라진 1억 유로, 모두가 그를 노린다! 최소한의 낭만도 허락되지 않는 더러운 악의 전쟁이 시작된다!
Signora Inge
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
Betty Richichi
An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome. Paired with an American journalist writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city.
Herself
'Giallo' is Italian for 'yellow', the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most intense, extreme and influential genres in movie history. In this unprecedented collection, experience the full chronological evolution of giallo with more than 100 rare and classic trailers from such masters as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Antonio Margheriti, Umberto Lenzi and many more. Then slip on black leather gloves and set the mood with a Bonus CD of legendary soundtrack music from composers that include Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani and others, along with all-new featurettes that thrust even deeper into the genre. "But be warned," says Gizmodo.com, "Once you start going down the blood- slicked giallo rabbit hole, you may become dangerously obsessed."
Nonna Birgit
Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.
Hostess
고전 영화 속 세상이 전부였던 ‘루시’에게 운명처럼 찾아온 ‘펠리니’. 그를 찾아 홀로 환상의 도시 이탈리아로 떠나게 되는데… 처음으로 세상 밖으로 나온 ‘루시’ 과연, 꿈과 사랑의 답을 얻을 수 있을까? 나를 찾아 떠난 낯선 곳에서 운명적 이야기가 시작된다!
Easy's mother
A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a diseased Ukrainian worker, who died at a construction site in Italy.
Barbara
A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.
Sibilla
In 1589, six innocent women were accused from the inquisition of witchery in the small ligurian mountain.
Herself
Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
Herself
Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movie.
se stessa
A middle-aged man finds out his late mother was sponsoring a Brazilian girl who has now become a beautiful model.
A photographer is accused of murdering his mistress.
Signora con i baffi
Valeria
Vittorio Zemeli is a man of about 60. He lives in an apartment in a grey building in a grey city center in Europe, crossed by a river. At the center of his house he leads a solitary life, with TV on continuously for company. One evening, like many other evenings, Vittorio sees an actor on TV identical to himself, while eating. The TV Victor kills himself. The next day Vittorio is anxious while on the way to work. Three friends surprise him and drag him into a popular restaurant in town for a birthday dinner. But the journey on the way back home will be one he won't forget.
Self
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Carmen Iuvara
Elvira Coceanu
In 1950s Italy, a young woman from a poor background strives for a better life.
Caesonia
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa.
Herself
Short documentary on the 1972 Italo-crime classic Caliber 9
The story of the legendary Italian director Fernando Di Leo (Milano Calibro 9, Il boss) narrated by himself and others members of his crew.
Mrs. Schermerhorn
1860년대 초 뉴욕의 격동기. 월 스트리트의 비즈니스 지구와 뉴욕 항구, 그리고 브로드웨이 사이에 위치한 파이브 포인츠는 뉴욕에서 최고로 가난한 지역이며 도박, 살인, 매춘 등의 범죄가 만연하는 위험한 곳이다. 또한 이 곳은 항구를 통해 아메리칸 드림을 꿈꾸는 아일랜드 이주민들이 매일 수 천명씩 쏟아져 들어오는 꿈의 도시도 하다. 그러나 파이브 포인츠에 사는 정통 뉴요커들은 아일랜드 이주민들을 침입자라 여기며 멸시한다. 결국 두 집단의 갈등은 전쟁을 불러일으키게 되고 아일랜드 이주민의 존경을 받던 '데드 레빗파'의 우두머리 프리스트 발론(리암 니슨)은 빌 더 부처(다니엘 데이 루이스)에 의해 죽음을 맞는다. 그리고 바로 눈앞에서 이 광경을 지켜본 그의 어린 아들 암스테르담 발론(레오나르도 디카프리오)은 아버지의 복수를 다짐하게 된다. 16년 후, 성인이 된 암스테르담은 복수를 위해 빌 더 부처의 조직 내부로 들어간다. 뉴욕을 무자비한 폭력과 협박으로 지배하며 파이브 포인츠 최고의 권력자로 성장한 빌 더 부처는 자신을 향한 음모를 까맣게 모른 채 암스테르담을 양자로 삼게 된다. 암살계획이 진행되고 있을 무렵, 암스테르담은 빌 더 부쳐의 정부(情婦)이자 소매치기인 제니 에버딘(카메론 디아즈)을 만나 한눈에 반하게 되고 처절한 복수와 이루워질 수 없는 사랑의 소용돌이에 빠져들게 된다.
Presentatrice Pubblicità
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
Minna Kappler
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazi's decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story. Written by John Vogel
Karen
Crashed and sunken in a murky sea, a passenger plane had a very special package... a briefcase full of diamonds. These illegally acquired and transported missing diamonds become an irresistible challenge to a few interest groups. They will kill, deceive, and plot to capture the diamonds for themselves.
Eleonora
Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
Amelia
Celeste La Grasta
Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise party for Savino's birthday, and that day things start to get complicated. First Savino kills accidentally the mafia killer in charge to kill Celeste; second his lover Elvira arrives to the party with the judge... not to mention the police and the mafia Don...
Manuela e Diana Robelli
Valeria Damiani
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.
Barbara Bouchet (uncredited)
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
Raffaella
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school.
Enza Paternò (episodio "Domenica")
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company.
DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep.
VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy "Il Gatto Mammone", combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca ("The Eroticist", "Il Domestico") with gorgeous, oft-nude body of Gloria Guida (Miss Teen Italy of 1974). Actually, Guida gets to demonstrate a few comic styling of her own as a bohemian theater "actress" who lives in cramped apartment with a whole bunch of other clothing-averse bohemian types. She is very devoted to her older beau Buzzanca, but his life is very complicated due to his own devotion to his very big and very old dog, the ironically named "Piccolo" (basically "Tiny"), and his even older grandmother. In order to take care of these two dependents, he forsakes his loyal girlfriend for a rich female pharmacist (Andrea Ferriola) and moves in with her and her haughty bourgeois mother and aunts--with disastrous results for all involved.
Eleonora Rubens
카스텔리는 광고회사의 임원이다. 어느날, 엘레오노라 루벤스라는 젊은 네덜란드 여자와 차사고를 내게 된다. 각자의 집으로 일찍 귀가하게 된 두 사람은 모두 불륜을 벌이고 있는 배우자들을 마주하게 되는데...
Lisa
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
Ingrid
Adelmo Bartelesi has a colleague desired by all, this Adelaide Picchioni. And Adelmo unable to get an appointment with her. But get home Adelaide begins to present some difficulties: a transition to an old woman who leads him astray, intense traffic, the fortuitous meeting with his wife and family and then an attack of colitis and the meeting with his head, the car that is taken away by police, the meeting with another colleague ... will Adelmo reaching the desired appointment?
Anny
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
La contessa Fontana
Iro Mara
An adulterous woman and her lover plot to murder her husband Kostas and make it look like a yachting accident. However, unknown to them, Kostas has hired a private detective to follow them and knows of their plans in advance. A deadly game of double-crossing begins and propels all three of them towards tragedy.
Barbara (episodio "I soldi in bocca")
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
Violante (Segment "L'armadio Di Troia")
Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.
Patty
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
Carla
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?
Corinna
A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.
Barbara
A woman, who has just separated from her husband, comes to stay at the villa of the friend. The friend is away (and throughout the whole movie only appears as a voice on the phone), but the woman's goofy son (who looks like he just escaped from the Monkees) is staying there too. The son falls for her, not surprisingly since she always dresses in skimpy miniskirts or bikinis, and rarely closes the door when she is changing clothes or showering.
Margie
The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...
Elena di Campireali
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
Silvia Lorenzi
In this movie a writer comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then suddenly getting dressed and running off to a party with a young American guy. But it's not so much because she is malicious, but because she is really an insecure virgin. Finally, he gives up on her after his beautiful wife (Barbara Bouchet) shows up. But the younger woman becomes jealous and is not going to give up so easily. . .
Scilla
Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a year early for good behavior, but it certainly wasn't good behavior that got him in the big house in the first place. Two years prior, Ricco took it upon himself to go after Don Avito, the man who killed his pappy and took his girlfriend. Yet Ricco came out of prison a changed man. He had a lot of time to think, and the anger and thirst for revenge is no longer there, much to his mother's chagrin. She is quite upset that her son is not interested in paying back Don Avito for his deeds, and she needles Ricco relentlessly until he reluctantly gives in to her demands.
Prostitute
In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; a marquise is induced into temptation by an abbot; a tintora has carnal relations with a brother, and the two have a son; prisoner of Charles V , Francis I of France has a relationship with two Spanish and get an acquittal advance by the Pope; a group of cardinals contain a prostitute during a council; the Marquis Cavalcanti, rejected by the bride, vents his cravings with a syphilitic prostitute.
Luisa
Two spouses, whose marriage is shipwrecked, recall during a last meeting, scenes and episodes of their life as a couple.
Lucrezia
The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
Patrizia
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Kitty Wildenbrück
After the death of their grandfather, two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by the Red Queen, whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years. When a mysterious woman in a red cloak starts targeting their circle of friends, the sisters begin to suspect there might be some truth to the legend.
Karin
The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.
Francine
After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
Valeria
The story of a young. beautiful and very frustrated woman screwing everything in sight in every possible location. She is married to a famous choreographer. She has everything material she wants: clothes, a fancy home, jewelry, servants. Except one thing: her husband refuses to have sex with her because she wants to get pregnant and have a child.
Party guest (uncredited)
After the death of her mother under strange circumstances, a teenage girl quickly begins to suspect that her recently widowed stepfather may be involved.
Greta Franklin
A beautiful American woman infiltrates the home of a novelist and his wife so she can investigate the disappearance of her lover — who was her employers’ previous secretary — and soon finds herself the target of the couple's erotic desires and a murder plot.
Nelly Bordon
방금 출소한 전과자 우고 피아자는 폭력과 고문을 즐기는 정신병자 조폭인 자신의 전 보스 로코를 만난다. 갱과 경찰 모두 우고가 미국의 마약 신디케이트 보스에게 갔어야 하는 30만 달러를 숨겨 놓았다고 생각하는데...
Mariam
Italian sex comedy version of Arabian Nights
Gemmata
The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
Lucrezia degli Uberti
The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.
Nadine
Maria Zani
텔리니 경감은 피해자의 배가 날카로운 칼에 뜯긴채 마비된 연쇄 범죄를 수사한다.
Barbara
Scourged by the need to be different from his contemporaries and driven by an insatiable hunger for adventurous living, Marko, a young man of 25, returns from America where he has spent a few years. He wants to impress people in his native town, but eventually everything turns against him.
Anne Saxe
A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted
Esmeralda
Film inspired on the character from "Don Juan Tenorio".
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
Candida
Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
Pudentilla
In ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a series of misadventures.
Monica Brown
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate...
Ursula
여주인공은 예쁘지만 마음이 여린 매춘부다. 타락했으나 무구함을 간직하고 있는 그녀의 삶을 뮤지컬로 옮겨 연혼의 고양과 구원이라는 주제를 격정에 실어 묘사
Irene "Stoney" Stone
Barbara Bouchet (Casino Royale) and Mike Preston (Metalstorm, Road Warrior) are caught in an international mishmash of espionage and double crosses in the Philippines. Michael Rennie (The Day The Earth Stood Still), Richard Jaeckel (Grizzly) and Phillipino heartthrob Vic Diaz also star!
Marita
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.
Moneypenny
원래 007 시리즈 5편이지만, 영화 007에는 포함하지 않는게 일반적이다. 작가 이안 플레밍은 자신의 데뷔작 '카지노 로얄'을 너무 아껴서 007의 영화화 판권을 넘길 때 이것만은 제외시켰다. 그러나 그가 죽은 후 유족들로부터 미국의 다른 제작자에게 권리가 넘겨졌고, 완전히 다른 엉뚱한 코미디 영화로 만들어졌다.
연출도 존 휴스턴을 비롯해서 5명에 이르고, 출연진도 우디앨런, 데이빗 니븐, 데보라 카, 오손웰즈, 윌리엄 홀덴, 장 폴 벨몽도 등 각국의 유명 배우들이 나온다. 내용은 엄청난 제작비에도 불구하고 전체적으로 말이 안된다. 경쾌한 멜로디의 테마곡 'Casino Royale'과 'The Look of Love'는 대중들의 인기를 얻었다.
Ava Vestok
The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun.
Liz Eddington
제임스 바셋의 방대한 소설에 기초하여, 존 웨인, 커크 더글라스, 헨리 폰다, 패트리샤 닐 등 당대 대스타들이 총출연한 대작 전쟁영화. 흑백으로 촬영되었음에도 불구하고 컬러영화보다 훨씬 격렬하고 선명하면서 세련된 긴장감을 전달하고 있다. 1941년 12월 7일 아침, 록웰 토레이 함장 휘하의 순양함과 윌리엄 맥코넬 중령이 지휘하는 구축함은 일본군의 진주만 폭격에서 가까스로 빠져나온다. 토레이 함장의 지휘 아래 12척의 배로 이루어진 작은 함대는 적의 함대를 격파하는 임무를 수행하기로 한다. 그러나 기습작전은 연료부족과 함장의 계산착오로 인해 실패하고, 함대는 심각한 손상을 입는다. 토레이 함장은 사령관 직에서 해임되고, 토레이의 오랜 친구인 폴 에딩턴이 새롭게 공격임무를 담당하게 된다.
Astrid Porche (uncredited)
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
Girl on Plane (uncredited)
루이자(셜리 맥클레인 분)는 2억 달러의 재산을 가진 미망인이다. 그녀는 결혼하는 남자들마다 바로 죽어 버려 점점 부자가 되어 버린 신기한 운명의 여자. 자신이 저주받았다고 생각하고 자신의 전재산을 정부에 기부하려고 하는 루이자는 자신의 이야기를 정신과 의사인 스티븐슨(로버트 커밍스 분)에게 털어놓는다. 루이자의 이야기는 젊었을 때로 돌아간다. 당시 루이자는 돈 많은 바람둥이 레너드 크롤리(딘 마틴 분)와 가난하지만 점잖은 에드가 호퍼(딕 반 다이크 분) 중 한 남자를 택해야 하는 상황에 있었다. 그녀는 에드가를 택했고 에드가는 루이자에게 좋은 집과 풍족한 삶을 제공하기 위해 열심히 일해 부자가 된다. 하지만 그런 과정에서 그는 과로로 숨지게 되고 낙담한 루이자는 파리로 떠난다. 파리에서 고국을 떠나 살고 있는 미국인 화가 래리 플린트(폴 뉴먼 분)와 사랑을 하게된다. 래리는 소리를 이용해 그림을 그리는 기계를 만들어 엄청난 부자가 되는데 그 역시 유명세를 탄 후 곧 죽는다. 루이자는 다시 미국으로 돌아와 로드(로버트 미첨 분)와 결혼해서 자신의 불운을 깨 보려고 한다. 로드는 사업계의 거물로 이미 많은 돈을 가지고 있다. 루이자와 결혼한 로드는 좀더 편안한 생활을 위해 농부가 되기로 결심하지만 황소와 부딪쳐 목숨을 잃게 된다. 루이자는 절망에 빠져 어느 날 밤 허름한 술집에서 2류 배우인 제리(진 켈리 분)를 만난다. 그들은 결혼하고 루이자 덕에 부자가 된 제리는 스타가 되는데...
Receptionist (uncredited)
광고 회사의 말단 직원인 샘 비셸(Sam Bissel: 잭 레몬 분)은 사랑스런 아내와 딸 둘을 거느린 평범한 가장이다. 그러던 어느 날, 그가 별 생각없이 내놓은 의견을 대 고객인 널링거 사장이 흡족해 하는 바람에 그는 하루 아침에 이사로 승진한다. 그러나 아내의 절친한 친구 쟈넷(Janet Lagerlof: 로미 쉬네이더 분)이 옆집에 이사오면서 행복 그 자체였던 샘의 가정이 위협을 받는다. 쟈넷이 할아버지의 유산을 상속받으려면 결혼 생활을 하고 있어야 하는데 그녀는 현재 이혼한 상태였던 것이다. 쟈넷의 아이디어로 졸지에 하워드(Howard Ebbets: 마이크 코너스 분)의 대역을 맡게 된 샘의 이중 생활이 시작되면서 일은 꼬이기만 한다. 급기야는 쟈넷마저 샘의 부인으로 연극을 하게 되는 사태가 벌어진다. 여기에 쟈넷의 전남편인 하워드까지 가세한다. 결국 유산 때문에 본의 아니게 상대가 뒤바뀐 두 쌍의 숨바꼭질 사랑이 시작되는데...