Onofrio
Oscaretto - il suggeritore
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
maresciallo
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Gaspare
Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of beauty and Michele, gifted with a beautiful voice, agrees to sing in a club on behalf of an impresario who becomes his friend.
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
El cura
A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes.
Eugenio
Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.
Achille, padre di Aldo
Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
Umberto
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Giovanna's father
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
Rocco, chitarrista
This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Nicola, zio di Donatella
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Brother Serafino
Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
Il portiere del collegio
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
Don Emidio
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor.
The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
Il dottor Marini
Guido Carani, an engineer of noble descent, has just lost his son born to him by a chorus dancer, who, desperate, has become a nun. After a while he also loses his wife and daughter in a boating accident. Poor Guido is in despair, but soon he meets Lina, a woman who is a dead ringer for Luisa.
Padre di Agnese
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Don Emidio
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Nicola
Commissario Zannini
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
Zio Angelino
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
The Police Commissioner (segment "Nozze d'Oro")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Virgilio
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Don Emidio
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
Dovelli
Bartolomeo Porretti
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
Il brigadiere Sante
A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.
Anturio
Ambrogio
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Tiburzi
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Cosimo Pedrozza
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Gambalesta
Matteo
Caio
A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.
Augusto
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
Il contadino alla bilancia
Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
Cameriere
Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
maresciallo
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Barsilio, guardiano in seconda
A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
maggiordomo
Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
Proprietario Negozio
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Il Guardiano
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
Il padre di Marco
Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
Il sergente delle guardie
롤로타 부인(엠마 그라마티카 분)은 야채 밭에 물을 주다가 갓 태어난 아이를 발견한다. 부인은 이 아이를 정성껏 기르지만, 노환으로 아이가 6살이 될 무렵 돌아가시고, 이 아이, 토토는 고아원으로 보내진다. 성인이 된 토토(프란체스카 골리사노 분)는 고아원에서 나와 일거리를 찾기 위해 밀라노의 번화가로 간다. 모두를 향해 반갑게 인사하는 토토에게 호감을 갖는 이도, 친절을 베푸는 사람도 없다. 밤이 되도록 방황하던 토토는 어느 노인이 도둑질 하는 장면을 목격하고, 그를 잡으려고 쫓아간다. 눈물을 흘리며 애원하는 노인을 보고 마음이 측은해진 토토는 노인에게 가방을 가져가라고 한다. 노인은 잠자리를 구하지 못한 토토를 자신의 판잣집으로 초대한다. 그곳에서 밤을 보내고 아침이 되어 둘러본 판잣촌은 바람만 불어도 날아갈 정도로 형편없었고, 토토는 이들을 위해 새로운 집을 지어 주기로 한다. 거기에서 에비지(Edvige)라는 여인을 보고 한 눈에 사랑에 빠진다. 집들이 거의 완성이 됐을 무렵, 광장 한 가운데서 석유가 뿜어져 나오고, 땅 주인인 모비(Mobbi)는 공권력을 동원하여 토토와 판잣촌 사람들을 쫓아내려고 한다. 그 순간 하늘에서 롤로타 부인의 영혼이 나타나 토토에게 소원을 들어주는 신비한 비둘기를 선물한다. 토토는 이 비둘기로 사람들의 온갖 소원들을 들어주는데, 어느 순간 비둘기가 사라진다. 그 사이 땅 주인은 판잣촌을 장악하고, 토토와 사람들을 감옥에 집어넣는다. 갇혀있는 사람들을 보고 마음 아파하는 토토에게 롤로타 부인은 비둘기를 다시 보내주고, 토토는 사람들을 자유롭게 해 달라고 소원을 빈다.
Cav. Brusaglia
Il capo della banda di Arcachon
Brother Marco
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
Angelo Danati
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
Scipione
The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.
Don Nicola
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Gaetano Schioppa
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Roberto
A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is believed to be responsible for the theft and is arrested.
L'industriale
Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners. This allows him to know and fall in love with a beautiful blind girl.
An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
Matteo Boccaloni
Il padre di Roberto
Pacini, il maresciallo della sussistenza
Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.
Il sacristano
Casimiro, il tutore
Il controllore
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
il cugino Michele
direttore del carcere
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.
Antonio Perticone
A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
L'uffiziale giudiziario
An Italian comedy released in 1941.
Il trovarobe
Don Felice
Uomo sul treno
Il bidello
Il maggiore
Gaetano
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Il cavaliere
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Pasqualino Pappalardo
Pasquale
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
Pepe
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
Gestore del "Castello delle streghe"