Domenico Modugno

Rosso e nero

Domenico Paolella

Renato Rascel, Nico Pepe

Che cosa sono le nuvole?

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ninetto Davoli, Totò

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

Adua and Her Friends

Antonio Pietrangeli

Simone Signoret, Sandra Milo

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

The Scopone Game

Luigi Comencini

Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Filumena Marturano

Eduardo De Filippo

Eduardo De Filippo, Titina De Filippo

Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.

Hawks and Sparrows

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Totò, Ninetto Davoli

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Nel blu dipinto di blu

Piero Tellini

Domenico Modugno, Giovanna Ralli

Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.

Destino

Enzo di Gianni

Eva Nova, Mario Vitale

L'onorata società

Riccardo Pazzaglia

Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.

Esterina

Carlo Lizzani

Carla Gravina, Geoffrey Horne

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...

Carica eroica

Francesco De Robertis

Dario Michaelis, Tania Weber

In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.

Il maestro di violino

Giovanni Fago

daniela ich, Domenico Modugno

The violin teacher at the Perugia Conservatory in Italy is loved by his female pupils and the rich ladies in town. Later we learn that he was a great concert soloist and had to give up his career because of his drunkard wife.

Tutto è musica

Domenico Modugno

Domenico Modugno, Franco Franchi

Europa di notte

Alessandro Blasetti

Alba Arnova, The Princesse Badia

A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.

Questa è la vita

Aldo Fabrizi, Giorgio Pàstina

Totò, Aldo Fabrizi

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.

Capriccio all'italiana

Pino Zac, Steno

Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.