Four comedic episodes follows different taxi drivers.
Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris, and Amelia, her lover and accomplice, helps him to hide.
A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her.
Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
Film by Silvio Laurenti Rosa.
(uncredited)
Распутная и жестокая супруга императора Клавдия Мессалина строит планы по свержению мужа и возведению на трон своего любовника Гая Силия. Но планы императрицы нарушает ее неистовая похоть. Мессалина обращает свой жадный взор на гладиатора Тавра. Однако непокорный раб отказывает всемогущей императрице ради своей возлюбленной христианки Цинции. За это Мессалина приказывает отдать Тавра на растерзание львам. Но отважная Цинция отправляется на арену вместе со своим возлюбленным и, тем самым, смягчает сердца безжалостных римлян. Мессалина вынуждена подчиниться публике и помиловать влюбленных, но она даже не подозревает, что этот жест станет первым предвестником ее падения…
По мотивам новеллы Франка Тисса "Неаполитанская легенда". В 15 лет, после смерти матери, он начал зарабатывать на жизнь, выступая на церковных праздниках, а потом, во время службы в армии, произвел своим голосом такое впечатление на начальство, что ему был предоставлен учитель пения. Оперный дебют Карузо состоялся 16 ноября 1894 года.
“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, an important activist who was ahead of her time in deciding to make both love and war before, during and after the French Revolution . She even caused Robespierre to lose his head (literally) because of her.
