Cast: Checco Durante

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Anna Magnani · Massimo Girotti · Checco Rissone · Dante Maggio

Direction Federico Fellini · Alberto Lattuada

Cast Peppino De Filippo · Carla del Poggio · Giulietta Masina · John Kitzmiller

Plot Variety Lights is a bittersweet drama about a group of second-rate theatrical performers on tour. The actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make money from town to town, playing to...

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Vittorio De Sica · Virgilio Riento · Laura Gore

Plot Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She...

Direction Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Marcello Mastroianni · Camillo Pilotto · Franco Fabrizi

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Sophie Desmarets · Vera Nandi · Peppino De Filippo

Plot Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome to Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France, Ginette a widow with a four year old daughter....

Direction Mario Sequi

Cast Claudio Gora · Carlo Ninchi · Vera Carmi · Franca Marzi

Direction Nello Rossati

Cast Antonia Santilli · Tony Askin · Ettore Manni · Fiorenzo Fiorentini

Plot Paolina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, a flabby and impotent man, so the eager girl offers herself to all the young people in sight.

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Ciro Verratti · Silvana Jachino · Ada Biagini · Nerio Bernardi

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Angelo Musco · Checco Durante · Franco Coop · Loris Gizzi

Plot Comedy of a man deserting his own impossible family, and comforting a rich widow who sees in him a resemblance to her lost husband.

Direction Corrado D'Errico

Cast Camillo Pilotto · Ugo Ceseri · Amedeo Nazzari · Armando Migliari

Plot Four heirs in a wealthy family, while waiting to see who gets the inheritance, squabble over a missing lottery ticket.

Direction Mario Bonnard

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

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Angelo Musco · Alida Valli · Lino Carenzio · Rosina Anselmi

Direction Giuseppe Amato

Cast Linda Darnell · Valentina Cortese · Lea Padovani · Giulietta Masina

Plot Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other...

Direction Bruno Corbucci

Cast Fred Robsahm · Igli Villani · Sydney Chaplin · Ira von Fürstenberg

Plot Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly...

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...