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- A disturbed young taxidermist exhumes his recently deceased girlfriend, brings her body to his family villa and proceeds to embalm her corpse, with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
- A professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies.
- A reporter and his girlfriend investigate deaths surrounding a hotel where several prominent people go to have sex.
- An Italian businessman decides whether to pay a ransom for his abducted son or not.
- Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
- A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant will be crucial.
- Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
- Gold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his money.
- It is only the prospect of having a child that draws the otherwise strictly urban new wife, Suzanne, to a family farm, she really doesn't care for the countryside of for her in laws.
- Loose Pirandello adaptation: A young lady hides from her fiance that she is caring for a baby half brother left behind by her late mother.The fiance, like her an aspiring musical performer, has indicated he doesn't want a child yet.
- Young composer Vincenzo Bellini is still an unknown music student in Napoli when he finds in a maiden's eyes the inspiration for the aria that would become his most beloved one, "Casta Diva".
- Lucia has been married for 10 years with Julius, who is fond of horses and seems to prefer them to his wife.
- A lavish historical pageant about a Renaissance leader trying to unite a still feudal Italy.His band of black shirts anticipates the Fascists of a later Italy when the film was made.
- A young aristocrat, planning to spend more time in town, returns to his farmland to sell out to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who worked for him.
- A story about the comic adventures of a group of summertime travelers.
- In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends (Mario and Pietro) fight for the love of the same girl (Gina). Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
- In the 17th century the Spanish governor of Naples falls in love with a beautiful woman and puts her husband in jail so he can seduce her.
- A Renaissance leader tries to unify a still feudal Italy.His black band of followers anticipates the Fascists of a later Italy when the film was made.
- A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
- A smuggler is in love with a girl who is involved with another man. In a rage of jealousy the smuggler pins a murder on the girls lover.
- Mechanic Romeo and grocery deliverer Felice lead two rival gangs and the local discotheque is not big enough for the both of them. When Romeo falls for Felice's sister, conveniently called Giulietta, the entire town becomes too small for the two rivals. Romeo is adamant to keep on seeing Giulietta while keeping clear of Felice, while Felice is forcing other suitors onto his sister that are more to his liking.
- Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.
- Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
- Ciro Verrati, famed Italian fencing champion, stars as a soldier who turns pirate to avenge his honor. Nerio Barnardi plays the villain, and Slivan Jachino is on hand to provide the romance and decoration, outside of the many fight sequences. Shown in the USA with no English sub-titles.
- A story of the Italian troops in Africa.
- A henpecked husband takes the opportunity to start a new life in a different city, when a corpse that resembles him is found in his hometown.Will he be able to get away with the ruse?
- Film set in the 1910s, in an Italian school. A male school teacher falls in love with the female gymnastics teacher at the school. She is attracted to him, but their students attempt to sabotage the prospective romance.
- A lady pianist is torn between the cellist in her quartet and an exotic Indian maharajah she meets on a tour by her troupe.But the maharajah has trouble forgetting his former, dead love.
- This featurette is a burlesque of the Moliere play, The Doctor In Spite of Himself.
- It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Suzette to the farm of an Italian working class family.She really doesn't like the country or her in laws.
- Paola Borboni is in love with Nino Besozzi, but is unable to get him to propose marriage. She tricks him into accompanying her on a search for an alleged husband she has just married but lost at the train station. The search for the non-existent husband takes them to several cities, with Besozzi finally realizing he loves her. But it is not until he gets involved in a duel that Borboni confesses that she has tricked him.
- Comedy of a man deserting his own impossible family, and comforting a rich widow who sees in him a resemblance to her lost husband.
- Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
- After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
- Short comedy vehicle for performer Petrolini, about a blind man who sings in the streets and courtyards of Rome and who tries to score a kiss as a favor from a woman whose beauty he can only sense, not actually see.
- Scenes of healthy young Italians enjoying the fresh air playing rugby in different contests are combined with a subplot of romantic intrigue and psychology.
- Comedy: One night a middle aged Don Juan finds the jewelry worn by his current paramour has been stolen while they are at a club. Later it somehow lands up in the hands of the man's suspicious wife.
- A young man, Willy, breaks off his engagement with a girl from a noble family, because he is entranced with a night-club starlet. Misunderstandings, jealousies and quarrels - will end with a wedding.