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- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediSylva KoscinaVéronique VendellSeven episodes light-heartedly revolving around sexuality and eros with seven funny characters all played by great Nino Manfredi.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniBernardo BertolucciGiuseppe BertolucciStarsTonino AccollaElio BartoliniAmelia MartelloPromotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
- DirectorStenoStarsWalter ChiariRaimondo VianelloPaolo PanelliStructured in 10 episodes, the film tells the uses, customs and vices of Italy at that time.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioBernardo BertolucciJean-Luc GodardStarsTom BakerJulian BeckJim AndersonFive short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while they watch another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniNanni LoyLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediMonica VittiJohnny DorelliThree episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.
- DirectorMauro BologniniMario MonicelliPier Paolo PasoliniStarsTotòUgo D'AlessioRegina SeiffertThe film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoDino RisiFranco RossiStarsNino ManfrediIlaria OcchiniRiccardo GarroneIn the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. In the second part, Prof. Beozi, in order to avoid a scandal, ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals. In the third part, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him since nobody has the courage of uncovering the true reason for him being unwanted.
- DirectorGianni PucciniStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaRosalba NeriSix sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
- DirectorGian Vittorio BaldiMarco FerreriGiulio MacchiStarsMaria Di GiuseppeAnna BrignoleAntonietta CaiazzoA comprehensive look at the condition of women in Italy during the years of economic boom : (1) "I bambini" or how difficult can be for parents to reveal the mystery of birth to their young children. (2) "Le adolescenti" or how the first kiss can be pleasant for teenagers and a worry to their parents. (3) "Lo sfregio" or how violent a male ego can be after a woman's rejection. (4) "La prova d'amore" or how double standards work in view of a woman's loss of virginity. (5) "Ragazze madri" or how modern psychology can influence a pregnant woman to deal with her dilemma. (6) "Viaggio di nozze" or how hiding her sexual past to the bridegroom does not succeed past their nuptial night. (7) "Il successo" deals with ambitions and the price for success. (8) "Gli adulteri" or how a marriage can shift towards hypocrisy. (9) "Un matrimonio" or how a girl eager to marry discovers too late her husband's true nature. (19) "Le tarantate" or how an emigrant's wife shall overcome her sexual need through music and dancing. (11) "La separazione legale" or how divorce can be a way to settle peacefully a union that no longer works.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenzo MarignanoClaudio GoraMarina BertiA group of Italians--tourists and immigrants--take a flight to Sweden. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, 'La Trattoria', and are disgusted by the untidiness and poor service. An elegant lady in her splendid Ferrari is accosted by an Italian and imagines a flirtation, but he's all eyes--for the car. An Italian wife finds her husband in bed with another woman, but he's so smooth with his explanation that she blames herself for not spending enough time with him lately.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsUgo TognazziVittorio GassmanLando BuzzancaThe myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsMonica VittiCarlo GiuffrèEnrico Maria SalernoThe film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
- DirectorMario MonicelliDino RisiEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanOrnella MutiAlberto SordiSeveral episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardUgo GregorettiPier Paolo PasoliniStarsRosanna SchiaffinoBruce BalabanMaria Pia SchiaffinoFour short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
- DirectorFranco CastellanoPasquale Festa CampanileSergio MartinoStarsEdwige FenechLino BanfiDaniele VargasThree episodes: an accountant marries a beautiful Japanese and follows her to Tokyo; a young man marries a Sicilian girl to save her from paternal wrath; a theatrical impresario marries her dancer so she can leave her place in the ballet.
- DirectorLeonardo BenvenutiLuigi ComenciniPiero De BernardiStarsSenta BergerAdolfo CeliVittorio GassmanAn episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsMarcello MirandaCarlo GiordanoPietro ArciadiaconoPaletta steals from a shrine to pay a prostitute. Fefè, an aging homosexual, attends his lover's wake and steals his ring. Lazzaro is killed by the mafia. Totò, a humble messiah, resurrects the man, who rushes off to take his revenge.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStenoStarsRenato PozzettoCochi PonzoniEnrico MontesanoAn Italian priest met an American priest and discover how are different their lives, a guy escaped from prison is seduced by a gorgeous woman but there is a trick, and a layer is engaged by a mad client.
- DirectorGiovanni GrimaldiStarsLando BuzzancaIra von FürstenbergFemi BenussiA film made for Italian television. A series of eight episodes put together in which Lando Buzzanca plays a variety of weird characters. Episode 1: Il Salvatore (The Saviour) A reporter tries to stop a man from killing himself, only to get the TV crew's attention. Episode 2: La Voce Del Sangue (The Blood Voice) An engineer tries to get his wife to act as a prostitute to satisfy His Excellency, only to find out his "daughter" has been sent in her place. Episode 3: Il Fachiro (The Fakir) A fakir is forced to accomplish excessively terrible deeds in order to satisfy the public, and he is then exploited by his own family. Episode 4: Una Bella Famiglia (A Nice Family) A father of two children lives in luxury, thanks to the illegal activities of his wife (IE: A prostitute). Episode 5: Il Caso Apposito (The Apposito Case) The head of a major corporation is accused of nepotism and is forced to corrupt the visiting inspectors, and the only surviving rival is forced to kill himself in order to restore the corporation's reputation. Episode 6: Il Cincillá (The Fur Coat) A two-part story in which the manager of a battery hen facility is forced to pay for his son's purchases. His son purchases posh clothes for his girlfriend, including a fur coat. Part 1 focuses on their relationship, whereas Part 2 revolves around the son being forced to choose between the girl he loves or his inheritance. The father tries to seduce his son's lover, but fails. Episode 7: Il Chirurgo (The Hypnotic Surgeon) A hypnotic surgeon attempts to perform surgery on a man who has made a false accusation against him. Episode 8: Processo A Porte Chiuse (Trial Behind Closed Doors) A simple-minded farmer is accused of incest after supposedly impregnating his three sisters. Although the future looks particularly bleak for him, he succeeds spectacularly in persuading the court to side with him and therefore the sisters get life in prison for character defamation, whereas the farmer is released and takes the opportunity to get his own back on his annoying lawyer.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniMauro BologniniFranco IndovinaStarsPrincess SorayaRichard HarrisAlberto SordiA story with three segments that all adhered to the titular theme, The Three Faces of a Woman.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniSteven SoderberghKar-Wai WongStarsRobert Downey Jr.Alan ArkinGong LiThree short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniAldo GiuffrèStories about three very different women and the men they attract.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsBarbara BouchetEdwige FenechDayle HaddonFive short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to watch a young woman; he watches her a little too closely. In another, while Barbara Bouchet's husband is out of town on business, a stranger offers her twenty million lire in return for sex. Three times he offers, three times she protests and then consents, only to find out in the end that both the man and his sixty million lire are -- oh, but that would spoil the ending. :-)