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Mario y Franco, el chico nuevo, se hacen poco a poco los mejores amigos, pero su amistad se pone a prueba cuando uno de ellos gana una competición.

The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.

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.

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.

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....

An epic Italian film, "Quo Vadis" influenced many of the later movies.

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.

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.

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.

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?

About the daughter of the Borgia, a noble medieval house. From her numerous and unhappy weddings, to the forced monacation, to the will of her family.

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 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.

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.

Cesare is a ticket collector on a bus who is competing with the driver, Bruno, for the love of Rosella, a naïve waitress who's been mugged on the bus.

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.

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.

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.

Kate Sampson and Peter Woodrow are members of two opposite factions which are jealous of each other, and ready to take advantage of any prosperity that might come to either. In spite of this, Kate and Peter love each other and delight in stealing away to some beauty spot known only to themselves and exchange their vows of love and constancy. The Sampson family have an unfortunate run of bad luck and one by one their comforts disappear, until even food becomes scarce and Sam Sampson makes up his mind to leave home and go further afield in search of gold. It is a distinct wrench, for Kate, Sam, and their father are devoted to each other and bear the parting badly, but are buoyed by the chance of Sam's success in the new district in which he is going. Another blow falls upon Kate. Her lover, through the importunities of his family, gives her up owing to her poverty. Kate's father is indignant, and in dismissing Peter, tells him that the day may soon come when he will repeat his mean actions. Sam goes on his journey with a sanguine determination to succeed and begins prospecting at once. After a weary search he comes upon the banks of a stream where he finds gold in abundance. After staking his claim, he gathers up samples of the precious metal and returns home with his good news. His father and sister are equally delighted with him, and the story of his great discovery and samples of gold convince them at last their days of poverty are over. A listener, however, soon spreads the news among the settlers, who determine to forestall Sam and secure the gold for themselves. They meet together and decide to attack the Sampson's hut. They find the hut barricaded and their demand for admittance is ignored. Enraged and maddened by disappointment they set fire to the hut and a striking struggle ends in the escape of the Sampsons over the burning roof. They manage to save a baggage wagon and horses and set out on their journey to the land of gold and plenty. The settlers are once more on their track and attack the prospectors on the trail to their claim. Kate and her father are carried off after a determined resistance and are submitted to all kinds of tortures in order to drag from them the secret of the gold claim struck by Sam. In spite of everything, Kate and her father remain firm and the settlers are compelled to resort to other means to gain their ends. Laura Woodrow is with the attacking party and is determined to get the secret out of Sam. With her brother and a few others they prepare a trap for him. Sam however is too wary, and offers a determined resistance, a fierce revolver duel ends in the defeat of the Woodrow's and Laura, in endeavoring to escape on horseback, falls and injures herself. Sam comes to the assistance of Laura and carries her to a prospectors hut where he tends to her injuries until she recovers and is able to once more make her way back to her friends. Laura is impressed with Sam's generous conduct and promises him that she will liberate his father and sister at the first opportunity. She is received by the settlers with every demonstration of joy, as she had been given up for lost. She tells them that only Sam knows where the gold is to be found and sets them on a false track, while she fulfills her promise to Sam and sets Kate and her father free. Joyfully they rejoin the waiting Sam and are once more on their journey. Very soon the settlers are again after them and to escape their pursuers, they desert their caravan and whipping up the horses, send them with the caravan over the prairie while they themselves hide in the forest. The ruse succeeds, but before the settlers reach it, the empty caravan rushes over a precipice and is dashed to pieces. The Sampsons are joined by friendly gold seekers and pursue their perilous journey until they are faced with a gap in the hills in over which they are bound to pass by some means or other. Huge crags several feet apart, below them a yawning chasm, behind them a cruel body of maddened gold seekers, their position is indeed a perilous one. A daring scheme suggests itself to them. Each of them are hardy athletes, and, at the risk of their lives, part of them form a human bridge over which the rest pass and then the other swing themselves across and one by one clamber to safety. Once more the opposing parties meet, but this time after some daring riding and exciting struggles the Woodrow gang are defeated and made prisoners. Peter taunts Sam and challenges him to liberate his hands and fight him, and thus end their feud. Sam obeys his behest and the two stand up for a revolver duel. Sam fires into the air, and Peter, overcome by such generosity, will not fire, and soon a reconciliation is affected all around. Peter returns to his allegiance with Kate, now that he is untrammeled by fear of his family, while Laura Woodrow and Sam Sampson also find that they are in love with each other and this double engagement at last ends the strife between the factions and after their remarkable experiences, the whole united family settle down at Sam's claim and find gold enough to make each of them rich beyond the dream of avarice.