Cast: Oscar Andriani

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Cosetta Greco · Saro Urzi · Fausto Tozzi

Synopsis In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Kirk Douglas · Silvana Mangano · Anthony Quinn · Rossana Podestà

Synopsis A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Gino Cervi · Andrea Checchi · Ivan Desny

Direction Camillo Mastrocinque · Guido Salvini

Cast Margherita Carosio · Nives Poli · Giuseppe Addobbati · Mario Ferrari

Synopsis In order to encourage the young maestro Vernieri not to break down after the first failures, the director of the theater "La Scala" in Milan tells two significant episodes concerning the theater.

Direction Dino Falconi

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Lilia Silvi · Elena Altieri · Enzo Biliotti

Direction Luigi Capuano

Cast Lex Barker · Chelo Alonso · Livio Lorenzon · Liana Orfei

Synopsis Marco, a traveling soldier in Renaissance Italy, enters the employ of an ambitious lord named Astolfo whose cruel reign is being challenged by a rebel known as "the Red Mask." Marco soon becomes romantically involved with both Karima, a Gypsy...

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Vittorio Gassman · Gianna Maria Canale · Caterina Boratto

Synopsis Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is shattered of course and when after many years...

Direction Carlo Campogalliani

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Delia Scala · Franca Marzi · Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift. The driver gets, however, too fresh with the two girls and they decide...

Direction Mario Costa

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Antonella Lualdi · Nadia Gray · Lida Baarova

Direction Giulio Morelli

Cast Gino Cervi · Franca Marzi · Cesare Danova · Monica Clay

Synopsis Inspired by Giovanni Pascoli's poem. Ruggero (the father of the poet) is killed by a corrupted officer. His body is brought back home by a mare who, several years later, will reveal with its nitrite the guilty one, giving finally...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Carla del Poggio · Enrico Viarisio · Enzo Fiermonte

Synopsis Young Dalia Rossi is mistaken for a mad person and is committed to "Villa Felicità", a mental institution run by Professor Ruiz. When she is first examined she is found sane and sound. The only trouble is that the psychiatrist...

Direction Enzo Trapani

Cast Ermanno Randi · Lois Maxwell · Amedeo Nazzari · Juan de Landa

Synopsis A police inspector teams with an ex serviceman in order to break a ring of drug pushers after WW2. The veteran has had his sister killed by the drug traffickers and he himself is in serious danger.

Direction Giorgio Simonelli

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

Synopsis 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 father in law to buy three little flats for them...

Direction Giorgio Walter Chili

Cast Carlo Giustini · Milly Vitale · Oscar Andriani · Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however...

Direction Mario Costa

Cast Pierre Cressoy · Milly Vitale · Frank Latimore · Aldo Silvani

Direction Fausto Saraceni

Cast Ettore Manni · Paul Muller · Carlo Hinterman · Olga Solbelli

Synopsis Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Autrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert....