Elio Steiner

К молодой актрисе Кларе Манни, прежде работавшей продавщицей в магазине, приходит неожиданный и громкий успех. Режиссер Джанни Франки, снимающий ее в новом фильме, начинает за ней ухаживать и вскоре уговаривает ее выйти за него замуж. Движимый ревностью, он не может позволить своей супруге сниматься в легкомысленных мелодрамах, прославивших ее имя. Поэтому он начинает амбициозный проект с целью создать Кларе имидж серьезной актрисы…

The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.

Young Rosalia marries the painter Corrado Palmieri, but gets disowned by her family, opposed to the marriage. Then during a fight, Corrado kills his brother in law and is sentenced to a life sentence.

The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.

The homonymy of her husband with a criminal who has several murders on his conscience, committed in Canada, scaring the young wife who is a passionate reader of mystery novels and has a guilty conscience

A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.

During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.

A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.

Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.