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- A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- The story of the life of Christ.
- One inattentive step under the wheels of a bus ended the life and career of a wealthy Roman industrialist Bacca in the prime of life. In the other world, he does not doubt that he is destined for paradise.
- An epic Italian film, "Quo Vadis" influenced many of the later movies.
- A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.
- Mario and the new kid Franco gradually become the best of friends, but their friendship is tested when one of them wins a competition.
- The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
- Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
- On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel Prevost who has just attempted suicide. He confronts her and she spends the night trying to explain the reasons for her infidelity...he took their marriage for granted, he spent too much time at work, he appeared to be attracted to his pretty assistant and yada, yada, yada...in two languages and some badly-dubbed English. Will he buy this? Will they stay together?
- A group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. They comprise of a candle-maker, a politician, an ex-prisoner, a novelist and a petty thief trying to elude the police. All have their own spiritual problems to solve, except the thief. The politician, a former partisan leader, suffers the remorse of causing the deaths of three innocent men on a sabotage mission; he is set for the priesthood. The prisoner, a sick and possibly dying man, lacks the courage to visit his wife who is now happily remarried; his padre has advised him to leave her alone. The novelist bears the moral responsibility for offences committed by young people led astray by his writings; he earns a lot for his work, but is too demoralized to continue. Then the candle-maker - miserly, smooth-talking and bigoted - is unlikely to receive any benefit from his retreat to the monastery. Interwoven with the stories of these men is the drama of a priest who, overwhelmed by doubt, still finds the inner force to go forward. In the end the thief repents and leaves the monastery after making an offering to the Madonna of his stolen goods.
- Tarsus, in the Roman province of Cilicia, AD 120. Two Carthaginian sisters, Lea and Esther, are bought as slave girls by Roman tribune Marcus Valerius, who gives them as a present to proud Julia Martia, daughter of the proconsul. Ambitious, greedy and vindictive, Julia is betrothed to the cynical Flavius Metellus, a member of the Senate, but in fact she is in love with Marcus. However, he prefers the simple sweetness of Lea, which drives Julia to cruelty and revenge. The proconsul is murdered by Flavius Metellus who becomes his successor. Believing the Christians were responsible for her father's death, Julia, now the new proconsul's wife, orders the persecutions to begin. Marcus is ordered to carry out the campaign, but faced with the courage and faith of the Christians he realizes they are innocent. He is arrested after being betrayed by a shepherd and joins the two sisters in the dungeons. Lea is tortured and blinded after refusing to divulge the hiding place of the remaining Christians. Marcus and the others are sentenced to death, but his men free him in time to prevent the Christians being burned alive. In the bloody battle that follows Julia and her husband are killed and the Christians are liberated. Marcus, now also a Christian, is proclaimed the new proconsul and takes Lea as his wife. Although blind she will lead her husband with the sweetness of her soul and the light of faith that has saved her.
- The quiet days of two elderly spinster sisters are changed for good with the unexpected arrival of their nephew.
- The old carpenter Geppeto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, swallowed by a whale, taken prisoner by the Indians, saved by Canadian soldiers and, even, returned home mounted on a cannonball that flies through the sky.
- A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
- In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
- This is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano . The story is set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de'Medici recounts the rivalry between Gianneto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva and Gianneto's thirst for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabreillo. The joke ultimately takes Neri to murder Ginerva and by mistake his brother. The opera ends with Neri descent into madness.
- During WWII, a priest finds himself trapped in Ukraine in a battle between the Soviet Union and Italy while trying to save a wounded soldier.
- To set fire to Rome, murder the consuls, cancel all debts, and proscribe the wealthy citizens, is the plan of Catiline and his fellow conspirators, when they meet at the house of Quintus Curius, in the year 66 B.C. Their lowered voices are overheard by a spy, who carries the news to Cicero, the consul. With this evidence the great orator plans the utter destruction of Catiline and his followers. At the next meeting of the Senate, Cicero majestically rises from his seat, and pointing an accusing finger at Catiline, delivers his famous denunciation, branding him a traitor to his country. Catiline rushes from the chamber, followed by the curses of the senators. He then hastens to his army, and not long afterwards hazards battle with the consular forces. A terrible engagement ensues, in which not one of the conquered is taken alive. Catiline's body is found far in advance of his own ranks, amidst a heap of the enemy.
- Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
- One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.
- A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
- Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.
- 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 of the same name, but a looney modern-day nobleman who only thinks that he's Henry IV.
- The public and private life of Eugenio Pacelli, elected Pope Pius XII.
- After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.
- Believing that Caesar is becoming too powerful in the state, Brutus and others conspire to take his life. The next day, when all are assembled in the senate chamber, the conspirators accomplish their fatal purpose. Mark Antony, a friend of Caesar, swears to avenge the murder and at the funeral delivers an impassioned speech which arouses the Roman people to great fury. Brutus is forced to flee from Rome, but soon collects his followers, to oppose the forces of Antony. The two armies meet at the battle of Philippi in which Brutus is defeated and is forced again to seek safety in flight. When at the point of being overtaken, he hurls himself upon the sword of a friend and thus died "the noblest Roman of them all."
- Housemaid Maria has been engaged to Berto for 15 years. Berto doesn't have a steady job so he's waiting for his Uncle Matteo's death, when he will come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife, then for an actor and his wife on the verge of divorce, and last for Rafael, who wants to marry her. At last Uncle Matteo dies.
- The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her. But, having become rich and famous, he soon falls in love with the Princess of Chaban and abandons the woman to whom he owes his success.
- 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 his debts, Don Paulu, the son, needs help. He seeks aid from Uncle Zua, an old miser, who rejects him bluntly. Upset by Paulu's misfortunes, Annesa, the servant girl adopted by the family and Paulu's lover, decides to kill Zua so that the Decherchis inherit from him...
- After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where he fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
- The incidents of the story are laid in Rome. Herman. a lion tamer, and Cleo, his assistant, are the leading figures of a circus that is showing in one of the great Roman amphitheaters. Cleo is betrothed to Herman and he loves her with a love that is intense. This love begets in him none of the tenderness that endears a man to a woman; it is rather the similitude of a lion's rights over his mate; rights for which he will battle to the death against an intruder and, if needs be, include her in the slaughter. It is only to be expected that Cleo's nature has never been stirred by such devotion. Her lover is her master, a task master at that, and she pines in secret for a something that will transform the galling chains into links of sunshine. This something is introduced into her life one day, when Lieutenant Alexander, of the Roman army, presents her with a bouquet of beautiful flowers, ostensibly as a token of his admiration for her grace and skill in an equestrienne act, but really as an expression of his sincere admiration of herself as a woman. Herman, whose eyes overlook nothing in which Cleo is concerned, observes the act, and we see a snarl on his lips as he questions her in the ring. Her easy, candid reply reassures him, and the snarl is succeeded by a smile as he learns that the gracious little gift is from a stranger. But the Lieutenant, in his blind infatuation, bungles things, and takes the first step in what is destined to become a tragedy. He follows Cleo to her dressing room and, on being rebuffed, shows such deep disconsolation that the warm heart of the woman is touched. Besides he has brought a thrill to her heart that has been hitherto unknown to her, and, moved by sympathy and attracted by his fine appearance, she consoles him by a soft pat on the shoulder and by musical words that electrify the man. Ardent lover that he is, it is only after a few endearing words that he takes her in his arms and kisses her. Herman opens the door almost at the moment and the lovers just escape being discovered. The Lieutenant departs. Herman's jealousy being aroused, he turns ferociously on Cleo and gives her much the same rough usage as he would his refractory animals. She is thoroughly cowed and mute before him and he leaves her with a threat should she dare to love another man. The lion tamer grows more jealous as he thinks of the attentions of the Lieutenant, and he arranges with the clown of the circus to spy on her movements. Cleo receives a clandestine letter from Lieutenant Alexander, and joins him on an autoing trip. She is followed by the clown, who succeeds in gaining a place on the back springs of the auto as it speeds away. Cleo is late for dinner that day, and on being reprimanded by Herman, gives an evasive explanation. At this juncture the clown comes into the dinner table, and makes signs to Herman to follow him out of doors. There he tells him of the meeting and of the tender words that have passed between the lovers. Returning to the room, Herman accuses Cleo of her duplicity before the entire circus force, and forbids her to leave the circus premises in the future. But the lovers meet again, and a fiendish plan is suggested to Herman by the clown to entrap them. He calls on Cleo and good-naturedly offers to carry a note from her to Alexander. Deceived by his manner, she writes the note and delivers it to him. The clown carries it directly to Herman, who opens it carefully and reads it. Then it is re-sealed, and the clown takes it to the Lieutenant, who is overjoyed to receive it. This note fixes a meeting place for the lovers, the following night. The Lieutenant tells the clown, verbally, that he will be at the rendezvous and requests him to advise Cleo accordingly. This is done and Herman is informed of the particulars. The fateful night arrives. The clown calls on Cleo and notifies her that Lieutenant Alexander awaits her outside. He then joins Herman, who is waiting in a concealed spot near the door, through which Cleo must pass. As she cautiously emerges, Cleo is seized from behind by the conspirators, and is gagged and bound. They then carry her to the caged arena in which the lions perform, and tie her to the bars. The clown meets the Lieutenant at the appointed spot and asks him to follow him to the place where Cleo awaits him. Suspecting nothing, Alexander is led into the arena. He begins to feel that he has been entrapped, just as the clown rushes from him through the gate and locks it. Now the plot unfolds itself to him, and, like a brave man, he determines to die gamely. Seizing a platform leaning up against the cage bars, he pulls it aside, thinking it may lead to safety. With horror, he discovers Cleo behind it in a fainting condition, upheld by the thongs which bind her to the bars. Then the whole truth flashes on him. Now the thunderous roars of the lions which are being turned into the arena by Herman fall on his ears. He again places the platform in front of Cleo and gets behind it himself, hoping to be able to keep the brutes from reaching her. All in vain. The infuriated animals crowd around the spot with such fierce determination that he rushes out into the center of the arena to distract their attention from his beloved. He wrestles with them desperately, and we see him go down. After that there is a merciful hiatus, during which Cleo makes her escape, just how the producer has failed to show us. The final scene shows the arrival of the police in the arena next morning. A white sheet hides the ghastly remains of what had once been a gallant soldier. Herman explains to the police that the tragedy is due to an accident, but Cleo, with avenging finger, points to him as the man who had lured the Lieutenant to the spot. He springs at her like a wild animal, but is seized by the officers.
- A famous baritone tells about the adventure he had taken the day before, when he lost his train and found himself wandering the countryside with a girl who had left the jealous boyfriend on the train.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- Tommaso Rossi, a young Italian goes to America to visit his elder brother Amedeo who has a business in the construction industry. He is discovered as a talented boxer after getting into a fight with a champion in a restaurant and flooring him. However his elder brother's business is wrecked and he is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Forced to fight in order to raise enough money to bail his brother, Tommaso is then told by a dying Amedeo to return to Italy as the American dream holds nothing for Italian American immigrants.