Screenplay: Vitaliano Brancati

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Umberto Spadaro · Ave Ninchi · Delia Scala · Massimo Girotti

Plot Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · George Sanders · Maria Mauban · Paul Muller

Plot When a quarrelsome married couple travels to Italy to explore a posh estate they've inherited, temptations and trials await them. Eventually, both experience a profound physical and psychological transformation amid...

Direction Steno · Mario Monicelli

Cast Totò · Pina Piovani · Aldo Fabrizi · Ave Ninchi

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Pierre Brasseur · Rina Morelli

Plot Women love handsome Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Totò · Franca Faldini · Vera Molnar · Ines Florentini

Plot A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocracy of his own relatives and decides...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Alberto Sordi · Marco Guglielmi · Franco Coop · Luisa Della Noce

Plot Tells the life of Sicilian Rosario Scimoni before he ends in prison. His life in Catania at the beginning of 20th century, as the secretary of the mayor who is...

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 Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Robert Lamoureux · Lucía Bosé · Hélène Rémy · Delia Scala

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 Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Maria Michi · Massimo Girotti · Gaetano Chiurazzi

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Nino Taranto · Alda Mangini · Gino Buzzanca · Clelia Matania

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 Giovanni Grimaldi

Cast Turi Ferro · Agostina Belli · Martine Brochard · Paola Quattrini

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Lando Buzzanca · Katia Moguy · Ewa Aulin · Stefania Careddu

Plot Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With...

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Gino Cervi · Anneliese Uhlig · Paolo Stoppa · Enrico Glori

Direction Luigi Chiarini

Cast Luisa Ferida · Amedeo Nazzari · Osvaldo Valenti · Teresa Franchini

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Columba Domínguez · Roldano Lupi · Juan de Landa · Franca Marzi

Plot In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threatened with eviction. To be able to pay...

Direction Carlo Lizzani · Gianni Amelio · Luigi Comencini · Luigi Magni

Cast Anna Lelio · Omero Antonutti · William Berger · Domenico Cundari

Direction Giorgio Pastina

Cast Enzo Biliotti · Clara Calamai · Rubi D'Alma · Lauro Gazzolo

Plot Film version of Luigi Pirandello's stage play Enrico IV that downplays Pirandello's patented absurdism in favor of a comparatively straightforward narrative. The title character is not the 11th-century German king...

Direction Steno

Cast Totò · Orson Welles · Viviane Romance · Franca Faldini