Egisto Olivieri

Era uma vez uma velha que descobre um bebê em seu canteiro de repolhos. Ela acolhe a criança e, quando ela morre, o menino, Totó, vai para um orfanato. Totó deixa o orfanato um jovem feliz, e procura por trabalho em Milão da pós-guerra. Ele acaba com os sem-teto e os organiza para construir uma favela em um terreno baldio. Os invasores descobrem petróleo na terra e Totó tem uma visão da antiga mulher que lhe dá uma pomba mágica que irá conceder-lhe qualquer coisa que ele quiser.

In Milan, the beggar Carlone has formed a brotherhood. Carlone's sister Anna, is a poor blind girl. One day Carlone saves a mutilated, who tried to end his days.

Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.

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.

In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along.

Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups?

A wealthy colonist and his handsome foreman help the natives to exploit their land . The colonist's daughter falls in love with a handsome Andrea. The father disapprove of their relationship. Andrea is fired. He runs away with one of the natives. To make sure the boy will stay with her, the black woman gives him a "magic" potion. Andrea becomes her white slave .