Paolo Ferrara

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franco Fabrizi

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Merlini

Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erminio Macario

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Magnani

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raffaele Viviani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annette Bach

Maruzzella is in love with Salvatore, who in turn is infatuated with Donna Carmela, Maruzzella's stepmother. As if that were not enough, Carmela...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marisa Allasio

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Magnani

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruggero Ruggeri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Rutherford

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erminio Macario

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Checchi

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Pola

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otello Toso

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Mangano

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Pampanini

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mel Ferrer

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angelo Musco

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marina Vlady

Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: José Isbert

Cousins James and Robert are in love with Susanna. When Robert and Susanna announce their engagement, James vows to ruin their happiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Turi Pandolfini

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angelo Musco