Cast: Bella Starace Sainati

Direction Amleto Palermi · Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Totò · Titina de Filippo · Silvana Jachino · Augusto Di Giovanni

Plot Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint...

Direction Ferdinando Maria Poggioli

Cast Luisa Ferida · Roldano Lupi · Ruggero Ruggeri · Elena Zareschi

Plot A Marquis lets an innocent man take the blame for the murder of one of his foremen , who had entered into a marriage in name only with the former...

Direction Giorgio Pastina

Cast Elsa Merlini · Gino Cervi · Giulietta Masina · Alberto Sordi

Plot Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle...

Direction Guido Brignone

Cast Yvonne Sanson · Steve Barclay · Tamara Lees · Carlo Sposito

Plot Steve Barclay stars as a young man (Stefano) returned from the war, who falls in love with Lucia (Sanson). The two are set to get married, but then Stefano loses...

Direction Gianni Franciolini · Félix Aguilera

Cast Giulio Donadio · Olga Solbelli · Mariella Lotti · Lauro Gazzolo

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Alida Valli · Fosco Giachetti · Vivi Gioi · Osvaldo Valenti

Plot After her tutor embezzles and squanders her inheritance, a young woman is forced to do various jobs.

Direction Primo Zeglio

Cast Gino Cervi · Paola Barbara · Yvonne Sanson · Milly Vitale

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Isa Pola · Doris Duranti · Carlo Ninchi · Leonardo Cortese

Plot Young Tiruddu returns home to his Sicilian village after completing his military service to find his fiancée, Lola, married to a rich and possessive businessman. But Lola soon provokes her...

Direction Giorgio Walter Chili

Cast Marina Berti · Amedeo Nazzari · Elisa Cegani · Claudio Gora

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Jean Gabin · Elli Parvo · Antonella Lualdi · Paola Borboni

Plot A gentleman by the name of Bachi dies but can't be admitted into heaven because of an evil action committed during his lifetime. He is given the opportunity to return...

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Paola Barbara · Otello Toso · Mariella Lotti · Giulio Donadio

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 Luigi Capuano

Cast Elli Parvo · Piero Lulli · Folco Lulli · Charles Vanel

Direction Luigi Capuano

Cast Lida Baarova · Otello Toso · Mino Doro · Mariella Lotti

Plot Adriana Sereni (Lyda Baacova), the cast-off mistress of a rich landowner, Artesi (Mino Doro), lives in shame on his estate with her five-year-old illegitimate daughter. Enter a handsome stranger, Stefano...

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Paola Barbara · Vittorio De Sica · Fosco Giachetti · Gino Cervi

Plot "The woman’s “immodesty” and “sin” are made explicitly central to the film, from the title onward, but its point, I think, is to open up these notions to critical scrutiny....