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- The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
- In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- Sex, torture, and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes that his people can co-exist with the Sodomites--a disastrous decision.
- An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.
- Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
- Summer 1943: The war is in full swing in southern Italy. Together with friends, Carlo enjoys a carefree summer in youthful naïveté. He falls in love with Roberta, whose husband was killed in the war.
- A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
- A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
- Francesca, a 17-year old school girl, has a vivid dream of making love to Enrico, a 37-year old divorced architect and family friend. She turns her dream into reality by meeting Enrico during a regular school day.
- Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.
- The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.
- A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
- Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.
- A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a university student's involved in smuggling cigarettes. In the English episode, a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs, and tries to sell his story to the press.
- Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess.
- The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
- Romolo and Salvatore are two young men who are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna.
- D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
- Gerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
- Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
- Luciano teaches mathematics to Sandra to help her in school and they fall in love. Sandra has another suitor--Nicola, who is also rich. Then Luciano meets the French Brigitte and she wants him to come with her to Paris. Sandra's father is in financial straits and he is obliged to flee abroad.
- Therese is a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise.
- The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
- In 1806 Naples, King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is frowned upon by the people, especially the comic theatrical Pulcinella, who continually delivers hard sermons, earning a reputation among the Neapolitans.
- During the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village, local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
- A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star...
- An engineer struggles between his wife and lover and his life becomes hell.
- Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.
- Story about a young boy who make friends with a baby shark. He introduces the shark to his girl friend and the shark is his pet. A decade later they reunite and now they are husband and wife and the shark becomes friends again
- The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo seeks a promotion and a raise that never came, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
- In an imaginary country, Michel VIII is still a child but he is to reign when his time comes. Revolution threatens and the young monarch's entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.
- 4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
- En spectacle à la Comédie canadienne, Gilles Vigneault interprète ses chansons et ses monologues les plus célèbres des années 60 : Vent de la mer, Danse à Saint-Dilon, Jos Hébert, Mon pays, Jean du Sud, Tout l'monde est malheureux, John Débardeur, J'ai un pays à construire, Manicoutai, Les Goélettes, Les Gens de mon pays, etc. Dans la deuxième moitié du film, on voit aussi le poète dans son village natal, on rencontre son père et quelques autres personnages de l'endroit. / Gilles Vigneault en concert à la Comédie canadienne et dans une salle de province. Le récital est entrecoupé d'images de Natashquan et des lieux dépeints dans les plus célèbres oeuvres du chansonnier. Ce document-reportage, en plus de témoigner d'une époque glorieuse de la carrière de l'artiste, a aussi la particularité d'être un des premiers récitals filmés en salles au Québec.
- A guy is sick and tired of losing every time he tries his luck at "100 Francs a second",a radio game.
- A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.