Italy 1941

Theatrical adaptation: Rigoletto the hunchbacked clown has a daughter who becomes involved with the lecherous King.

A crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.

Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector. She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies.

A woman of humble origins who marries a nobleman in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, the unstoppable force of their love hits an immovable object: his grandmother.

Non professional actors, filmed in a semi documentary style, show the lives of sailors and their officers ,some of whom are transferred to a hospital ship ,during WWII in Italy .

Lumbardy, Italy, seventeenth century. Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom.

Matilde Sarni lives in her villa near Rome. She has a son who has just married Donata and who is coming home after a series of recitals in the States. Mario, her son, is a famous opera singer and he is twenty years older than his wife. Besides Donata doesn't like country life. So when Mario leaves for a tour of recitals and Donata meets Giulio...

In the year 1599 in Italy, the entire Cenci family awaits their fates on the morning of their execution for murder. The events leading up to this day are presented in a series of overlapping flashbacks.

A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life.

During maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel and drops to the ocean floor. The crew have thirty hours worth of air to get it back to the surface.

In a palazzo in the center of Naples, a nobleman on the verge of death entrusts the faithful concierge with the responsibility of taking care of his illegitimate daughter. This one keeps its promise. Later, a family of industrialists comes to settle, whose young son falls in love with the girl.

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.

In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.

The girls of a college suspect one of them, Maria, of having an affair with Marini, a handsome chemistry teacher. Anna, another student and a snobbish socialite, is under Marini's spell and finds a rival in Maria. Things are tense for a while until the truth is unveiled: the man Maria gave a kiss to was her father, not the chemistry teacher. When Maria has an accident, her jealous co-ed repentantly helps her. She can now marry the man she loves.

The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.

Lawyer De Sica is drawn into the marriage problems of his glamorous neighbor.

A tramp enters by chance the house of a rich man and finds out that the man's future son in law is a crook. The old man, as a reward, lets him live in his house.

In Milan, at the time of Napoleon's domination of Europe, a group of young Italian aristocrats form a secret society, La Compagnia della Teppa

An athlete who performs in public squares one day saves a girl from the abuses of an violent impresario. Shortly after they are hired by a circus where the girl quickly becomes very popular.