Adriana Novelli

Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.

No final de 1930 Ferrara, Itália, os Finzi-Contini são uma família de destaque: ricos, aristocráticos e urbanos; eles também são judeus. Os seus filhos adultos, Micol e Alberto, convivem num círculo diversificado de amigos para jogos de tênis e festas em sua casa de campo, com seus belos jardins, e tentam manter o resto do mundo à distância. Mas as tensões entre todos eles crescem à medida que o anti-semitismo cresce na Itália fascista, e até mesmo os Finzi-Contini terão de se confrontar com o Holocausto.

Giovanna e Antônio estão casados há apenas 12 dias quando irrompe a Segunda Guerra, e ele é enviado para o fronte de batalha na Rússia, sem nunca mais voltar. Anos após a sua busca desesperada, ela finalmente encontra o marido com uma nova família.

Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who's harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.

Seis curtas em que são apresentadas histórias interessantes, com críticas aos costumes da sociedade em diferentes aspectos. Abrangem, a literatura infantil, a cabeleira masculina, o trânsito, as visitas de soberanos às antigas colônias, a falsidade e o ciúme.

Cinco histórias diferentes que tem como tema a mulher na sociedade.

Jonathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef), um famoso caçador de recompensas com aspirações políticas, topa perseguir o exímio atirador de facas mexicano Cuchillo Sanchez (Tomas Milian). Apesar de Cuchillo não demonstrar preocupação com esconderijos, ele sempre arma um plano inusitado para fugir.

Italian comedy film in three segments

O actor ícone de uma geração" (Roger Ebert), vencedor de quatro Oscares da Academia Clint Eastwood continua no seu papel emblemático como o lendário "Homem Sem Nome" neste segundo filme da famosa trilogia de Sergio Leone. Com argumento de Luciano Vicenzoni e com a assombrosa banda sonora de Ennio Morricone, Por Mais Alguns Dollars é um clássico moderno - um dos melhores westerns alguma vez realizados. Eastwood é um perspicaz e astuto caçador de prémios na perseguição sangrenta de Indio, o mais tenebroso e ameaçador criminoso do território. Mas o seu impiedoso rival, o Coronel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef, O Comboio Apitou Três Vezes) está determinado em capturar Indio primeiro... morto ou vivo! Falhando em capturar a sua presa - ou em eliminarem-se um ao outro - os dois ficam só com uma opção: juntarem esforços, ou enfrentar a morte certa às mãos de Indio e do seu bando de foras da lei assassinos.

Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, oficial da ONU e um Casanova moderno, não se sente estimulado a menos que haja sexo perigoso, mas as mulheres e a sociedade são muito complacentes, então ele fica frequentemente impotente. Um psiquiatra avisa que isso vai piorar e que ele deve ser celibatário. Andrea tenta e falha com isso, abandona sua noiva, encontra uma ligação ocasional com risco de vida e persegue uma mulher amarrada a um marido sem graça, mas assassino. Andrea encontrará prazer e satisfação, ou ele está fadado a perseguir e depois negará fogo quando a busca for bem-sucedida? (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

O rico Domenico e Filumena, uma prostituta sem dinheiro, compartilham grande parte de suas vidas no pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial na Itália. Domenico, um empresário de sucesso, de olho nas meninas, inicia um caso com Filumena aos 17 anos. Ela se torna prostituta, mas também se torna amante de Domenico. Ele finalmente a instala em um apartamento, e ela trabalha para ele em seus vários negócios. Mas ela secretamente tem três filhos, que são criados por babás. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

Histórias sobre três mulheres, interpretadas por Sophia Loren, todas muito diferentes e os homens que elas atraem. 1 - Adelina vende cigarros no mercado negro e é casada com o desempregado Carmine (Marcello Mastroianni). Ela é sentenciada a prisão, mas pode escapar enquanto estiver grávida. Sete anos e sete filhos depois, o marido esta exausto e a prisão parece algo inevitável, assim como o desprezo de Adelina por Carmine. 2 - Em Milão, Anna esta entediada e resolve dar carona a um escritor. Ela fala com um ar sonhador em fugir dali, e ele dá a atenção que ela precisa. 3 - Enquanto isso, Mara chama a atenção de um ingênuo seminarista, fazendo com que ela brigue com sua avó e faça um voto de castidade. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Four comedic episodes follows different taxi drivers.

Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...

Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.

O Condenado de Altona é um filme de drama ítalo-francês de 1962, dirigido por Vittorio De Sica. É baseado na peça de mesmo nome de Jean-Paul Sartre. Para este filme, Vittorio De Sica ganhou o David di Donatello de Melhor Diretor.

In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years.

Quatro diretores contam histórias de Eros para um Decameron dos anos 1970. 0:00:24 - Renzo e Luciana (Mario Monicelli) Os amantes da classe trabalhadora, Renzo e Luciana (Marisa Solinas), se casam, mas devem esconder isso do empregador. Além disso, eles precisam de um quarto próprio na casa dos pais. 0:44:50 - A Tentação do Dr. Antonio (Federico Fellini) Um cartaz de Anita Ekberg provocadoramente vendendo leite é um golpe na decência pública, mais do que o Dr. Antonio pode suportar. 1:39:37 - O Trabalho (Luchino Visconti) Romy Schneider é a esposa de um conde, cujas escapadas com call girls fazem as manchetes dos jornais, decide trabalhar para provar sua independência. Mas o que ela está qualificada para fazer? 2:34:45 - A Rifa (Vittorio De Sica) Sophia Loren é gerente de Estande de Tiro que deve impostos e se oferece por uma noite numa rifa. Um sacristão ingênuo e um criador de vacas ciumento completam o triângulo. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Em Nápoles, uma voz dos céus anuncia numa manhã que o julgamento final será às 18:00 naquele dia. O que se segue é uma série de histórias retratando as reações de várias pessoas (ou falta dela) ao anúncio. Tem um elenco de estrelas italiana e internacional, incluindo os americanos Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; a grega Melina Mercouri e os franceses Fernandel, Anouk Aimée e Lino Ventura. O filme foi um fracasso enorme, massacrado por críticos e público quando foi lançado. Foi filmado em preto e branco, mas a última sequência, a dança no teatro, é colorida.

Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.

Na Itália da Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma viúva solitária e sua filha buscam se distanciar dos horrores da guerra. Cesira é uma bela viúva e proprietária de uma mercearia de sucesso em Roma. A Segunda Guerra Mundial está em fúria, e ela teme por sua amada filha, Rosetta, de 13 anos, em meio aos bombardeios diários. Elas viajam para a aldeia onde Cesira nasceu, onde Cesira acredita que elas estarão mais seguras. Lá, elas são felizes mesmo quando a comida diminui. Michele, um intelectual jovem, apaixona-se por Cesira, que está muito consumida pelo bem-estar da filha e com sua sobrevivência para regressar ao seu progresso inicial nos negócios. Enquanto os aliados avançam, Cesira decide retornar a Roma - e finalmente encontra os horrores da guerra. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.

A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

Itália, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci e Giovanni Busacca são chamados, como todos os jovens italianos, para servir o exército na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Ambos tentam de todas as maneiras evitar servir o exército. Giovanni paga Oreste, acreditando em suas falsas promessas de fazê-lo escapar da convocação. Mas o destino os faz se encontrarem de novo no trem que vai para a frente de batalha. Em 1959 ganhou o Leão de Ouro em Veneza.

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided whether to marry her or not.

Peppe, um ex-boxeador, organiza o arrombamento de uma casa de penhores. Tiberio, um fotógrafo desempregado, Mario, um receptor, o siciliano Michele e Capannelle, um ex-jockey, são os outros membros da quadrilha. Embora eles sejam aconselhados por Dante, um ladrão aposentado, a tarefa não é tão fácil...

Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.

Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..

While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns.

A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.

A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her.

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

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.

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.

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.

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.

Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...

Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.