Augusto Mastrantoni

Brancaleone alle crociate

Mario Monicelli

Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Una Donna Libera

Vittorio Cottafavi

Françoise Christophe, Pierre Cressoy

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.

La moglie del prete

Dino Risi

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.

Cuore

Vittorio De Sica, Duilio Coletti

Vittorio De Sica, Gino Leurini

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.

Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio

Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.

Romanzo d'amore

Duilio Coletti

Danielle Darrieux, Rossano Brazzi

La strada più lunga

Nelo Risi

Gian Maria Volonté, Graziella Galvani

Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.