Lianella Carell

After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

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

A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory.

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.

Seis histórias incomuns descrevem um pouco a cidade de Nápoles: uma vendedora de pizza com humor instável, que perdeu o anel de noivado; uma prostituta que se casa; um palhaço que tem sua vida explorada por um gangster; um jogador fracassado; um professor que diz vender sabedoria; o funeral de uma criança morta.

Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?

When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?

Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of technical and financial problems and working Sundays with the pieces of film given to him bit by bit, Cottafavi shot Una donna ha ucciso, a minor film that marked his comeback to directing. (Gianni Rondolino)

Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.

Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.

A história se passa logo após a Segunda Grande Guerra, com a Itália destruída e o povo passando necessidade. Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) consegue um emprego após muita espera. Só que esse emprego, de colador cartazes na rua, lhe pedia como obrigação uma bicicleta. Ricci e sua mulher Maria (Lianella Carell) conseguem um dinheiro para uma, possibilitando que ele realize o seu trabalho. Há também o menino Bruno (Enzo Staiola), filho do casal. Fascinado por bicicletas, o menino cai de cabeça com o pai na busca pela bicicleta que lhes foi roubada, quando Ricci trabalhava apenas em seu primeiro dia.