Cinematography: Luciano Trasatti

Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi

Plot An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love...

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Totò · Liana Billi · Leo Brandi · Franco Caruso

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Marcello Mastroianni · Marisa Merlini · Lorella De Luca

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Franca Valeri · Livio Lorenzon · Nando Bruno

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Roberto Rossellini · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ugo Gregoretti

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Bruce Balaban · Maria Pia Schiaffino · Jean-Marc Bory

Plot This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Totò · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Arnoldo Foà · Maurizio Arena

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Marc Lawrence · Ettore Manni · Silvana Pampanini

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Nadja Tiller · Annette Vadim · Yvonne Sanson

Plot A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Cyril Cusack · Michael Hordern

Plot Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor bring gusto and ferocity to their roles as Katherine and Petruchio in this quintessential battle of the sexes, a vibrant adaptation of the classic Shakespeare...

Direction Luciano Emmer

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Giovanna Ralli · Marisa Merlini · Bice Valori

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Sandra Milo · Laurent Terzieff · Martine Carol · Paolo Stoppa

Plot Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.

Direction Antonio Margheriti

Cast Klaus Kinski · Peter Carsten · Marcella Michelangeli · Guido Lollobrigida

Plot Gary Hamilton, innocently sentenced to ten years in prison is released. When he comes out he promises himself to seek revenge on the guilty.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Renzo Ricci · Paolo Stoppa · Franco Interlenghi · Giovanna Ralli

Plot The 1800s sees the emergence of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), a hero-statesman Italian who works to unify his country.

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Nicoletta Machiavelli · Bernard Blier · Franco Fabrizi

Direction Pietro Francisci

Cast Anthony Quinn · Sophia Loren · Henri Vidal · Claude Laydu

Plot Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourage of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he...

Direction Mario Amendola

Cast Tony Russel · Luciana Gilli · Gianni Solaro · Ferruccio Amendola

Direction Guido Brignone

Cast Gino Cervi · Anita Ekberg · Georges Marchal · Folco Lulli

Plot Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops... But she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Christopher Lee · Herbert Lom · Klaus Kinski · Soledad Miranda

Plot Lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to transact a property purchase in England for Count Dracula. He ignores the warnings of locals not to go to Dracula’s castle. There Dracula...

Direction Paolo Heusch

Cast Francisco Rabal · John Ireland · Susanna Martinková · Howard Ross

Direction Lucio Fulci

Cast Edwige Fenech · Raf Luca · Giancarlo Dettori · Mario Maranzana

Plot Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who hire her twin sister Rosa, a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star, to visit Rome and to set her up...