Cast: Maria Grazia Francia

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Silvana Mangano · Vittorio Gassman · Doris Dowling · Raf Vallone

Plot Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Anna Magnani · Nando Bruno · Ave Ninchi · Armando Migliari

Plot A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Raf Vallone · Lucía Bosé · Folco Lulli · Maria Grazia Francia

Plot Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock of sheep have been stolen by the area thuggish big-shot landlord Agostino...

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Ivette Lebo · Armando Francioli · Jean-Roger Caussimon

Direction Giuliano Montaldo

Cast Franco Balducci · Loris Bazzocchi · Francisco Rabal · Silla Bettini

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Jean Marais · Daniel Gélin · Cosetta Greco

Plot group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. They comprise of a candle-maker, a politician, an ex-prisoner, a novelist...

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Lea Padovani · Jacques Sernas · Maria Grazia Francia · Paola Barbara

Direction Sergio Corbucci · Sergio Grieco

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Folco Lulli · Vittorio Duse · John Kitzmiller

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Lex Barker · Marie Versini · Ralf Wolter · Rik Battaglia

Plot On his adventurous travels trough the Ottoman empire, Kara ben-Nemsi (the Turkish-Arabic name means 'black(bearded) German', so author Karl May, whose alter-ego he is, would consider shaved blond Lex Barker...

Direction Gian Paolo Callegari

Cast Franca Marzi · Maria Grazia Francia · Armando Francioli · Massimo Serato

Direction Roberto Bianchi Montero

Cast Tamara Lees · Andrea Checchi · Giorgio De Lullo · Leopoldo Valentini

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Doris Duranti · Giorgio De Lullo · Maria Grazia Francia · Roberto Murolo

Plot During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.

Direction Giorgio Simonelli

Cast Delia Scala · Maria Grazia Francia · Giovanna Pala · Ugo Tognazzi

Plot Three friends, a mechanic a clockmaker and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future...

Direction Luigi Capuano

Cast Massimo Serato · Dina Sassoli · Umberto Spadaro · Guido Celano

Plot Elena is the widow of the Italian Air Force pilot Baldini. She lives with her son in a house on the edge of an area, which the Air Force has...

Direction Aldo Vergano

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ermanno Randi · Maria Grazia Francia · Umberto Spadaro