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- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsNino ManfrediAnna KarinaPaolo TurcoItalian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanCatherine SpaakJean-Louis TrintignantAn impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsUgo TognazziVittorio GassmanEly GalleaniA judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniFernando ReyShirley StolerThe defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsNino ManfrediMario AdorfValeria MoriconiAn inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
- DirectorMarco LetoStarsUgo TognazziFrançoise FabianMiou-MiouThe head of the Bonfiglio family, a great industrialist, dies by suicide. Since there are big deals involved, the ministry sends a commissioner to investigate. It turns out that all members of the Bonfiglio family are corrupt.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiShelley WintersVincenzo CrocittiA meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsAlberto SordiMichel SimonCharles VanelA salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiVittorio GassmanBernard BlierThe Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediAdolfo CeliVittorio MezzogiornoAn Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on a night train to Naples.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsSenta BergerVittorio CaprioliFranco FabriziThe classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable characters.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziClaude DauphinDuilio Del PreteItaly 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. *** SPOILER *** Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe. Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa.
- DirectorFausto TozziStarsNino ManfrediRosanna SchiaffinoVittorio CaprioliA missing dog wanders through the Trastevere district of Rome and pass into the hands of several temporary owners.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniLauren HuttonTom ReedRocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoAgostina BelliForced to leave his family in Sicily, Mimí finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMarcello MastroianniDaniela RoccaStefania SandrelliA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriGabriella GiorgelliA former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
- DirectorFrancesco MassaroStarsUgo TognazziMariangela MelatoFranco FabriziStory of a doctor, vet, Colonel of the Army (Tognazzi) who starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases in his sleep; because of his fitful sleep, he must sleep standing up. Now on the threshold of retirement, after a number of denied promotions because his brother is an anarchist, he is transferred to a "teaching hospital" in Florence. When his "frenemy" is promoted to the rank of General, the Colonel decides to write a book about his army career and reveal the many "contradictions" of the army during the war. This document alarms superiors who want to prevent its publication, which would cause serious image damage, so they offer him his desired promotion in exchange for his silence.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediLeslie CaronClaudine AugerTwo architects meet some time after World War II and get married. Though they are deeply in love, they come from different backgrounds and do not share the same outlooks on life. Soon she becomes fascinated with his progressive socialist ideals.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziMarina VladyWalter GillerA forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.aka "L'Ape Regina"
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsUgo TognazziFrancesca Romana ColuzziMilena VukoticEmerenziano, a middle-aged tax inspector, is in search of a wealthy wife. He travels to Italy where he meets three sisters, who, though wealthy, are not by any stretch of the imagination young or beautiful. He decides to marry one of them.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsAlberto SordiLea MassariFranco FabriziSilvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
- DirectorNino ManfrediStarsNino ManfrediDelia BoccardoPaola BorboniLittle Benedetto came out of an accident uninjured on his First Communion day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and make him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin, and grace.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsPaolo VillaggioLila KedrovaEleonora GiorgiThe young noble Didino is a big baby and an introverted man who has trouble socializing because of his possessive mother. He is still treated at thirty years old as a kid and does not know what to do to overcome his shyness.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsAntonio PetruzziStefano Satta FloresSergio FerraninoThe story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsGigi ProiettiIrene PapasTeresa Ann SavoyAn older man plans to marry a mentally-challenged, sex-crazed, adolescent girl.
- DirectorUgo TognazziStarsUgo TognazziTina LouiseOlga VilliA successful business man occasionally develops an unusual physical disturbance: his nose whistles, whenever he breathes. Because of this peculiar circumstance, he enters a private, luxurious hospital. The whistle is cured, but new problems, real or unreal, are discovered by the hospital's staff. The man loses his confidence and vitality progressively. In a steady progression, he is first requested, then forced to move from one floor to another. Each floor is less elegant than the lower one, the staff is less appealing and courteous, the independence of the man reduced. At last, he has only the caring company of his lover to comfort him, amidst the indifference of his family.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsGiancarlo GianniniMichel ConstantinGiuseppe MaffioliAn experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediDanilo MatteiCarmen ScarpittaIn 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power. That night, three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested for the bombing. He uses his influence to gain the youth's release, hides him, and then engages in doomed battles of wit with the court and with the Black Pope to free the other two. Can this priest be a father, blunt power, and live out his faith?
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsMaria Grazia BuccellaCarlo GiuffrèMariangela MelatoEnrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsNino ManfrediMarlène JobertArnoldo FoàThe squalid life of meek bookkeeper Vittorio is interrupted when he becomes friends with police officer Sauro. Vittorio is introduced to gun shooting, at which he proves to be gifted. This fact shakes up his dull existence, which he might wish he'd never left once he gets into trouble with gangsters.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediVittorio GassmanStefania SandrelliThree partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsNino ManfrediGabriele LaviaGuido LeontiniIn Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsPaolo VillaggioAnna MazzamauroGigi RederA good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediEnrico Maria SalernoClaudia CardinaleRome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediUgo TognazziPamela TiffinMarino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziAnnie GirardotAchille MajeroniA modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsAlberto SordiSerge ReggianiCarla GravinaWhen Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsNino ManfrediGino CerviMichèle MercierThe incognito visit of a fascist hierarch in a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
- DirectorSergio CittiStarsCatherine DeneuveJodie FosterMariangela MelatoDifferent groups of people share cabin #19 for changing at an Italian beach.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsAlberto SordiVittorio GassmanNino ManfrediA randomly formed group of Italians gets deeply involved in a crime in Montacarlo.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediSenta BergerMario AdorfAn American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsUgo TognazziSilvia DionisioTano CimarosaA police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsUgo TognazziPaolo VillaggioDelia BoccardoA fig tree located on the property of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. One day the baron, a crippled atheist, sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. The aristocrat immediately converts and decides to give up his belongings to a religious institution. In fact, he was the victim of a scam, and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsAlberto SordiSilvana ManganoJoseph CottenEvery year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsAlberto SordiElga AndersenLino BanfiThe surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziOrnella MutiMichele Placido50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Giulio's jealousy gets in the way of their happiness though. Has Vincenzina cheated on him with his younger friend or not?
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanAlessandro MomoAgostina BelliA young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoRiccardo SalvinoA trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsNino ManfrediMariangela MelatoAnna Maria AragonaPaolo and Maria are two primary school teachers and they love each other, but cannot have a child.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoLina PolitoWhen a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanUgo TognazziJean-Louis TrintignantDuring a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiGiancarlo GianniniA three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsNino ManfrediPaolo StoppaMarisa LauritoSasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder mystery when Don Michele, a building contractor hires Iovine to find his daughter who has disappeared with incriminating documents.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòAldo FabriziCathia CaroMr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsMarcello MastroianniMichel PiccoliPhilippe NoiretA group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriA motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAlberto SordiVittorio De SicaMarisa MerliniAn unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMariangela MelatoDelphine SeyrigAurore ClémentMichele is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsUgo TognazziVittorio GassmanLando BuzzancaThe myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsNino ManfrediCatherine SpaakDidi PeregoDora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanDorian GrayAnna Maria FerreroGerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsUgo TognazziNicoletta MachiavelliBernard BlierEfisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head".
- DirectorDino RisiStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniVenantino VenantiniDiscovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanCatherine SpaakFolco LulliA group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsAlberto SordiFranca ValeriLivio LorenzonA mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoStarsLando BuzzancaMartine BrochardArnoldo FoàA butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsAgostina BelliCochi PonzoniMaurizio ArenaA young chambermaid from Venice who is a fan of Italian "Telefoni bianchi" cinema of the fascist era decides to follow her dream and goes to Rome hoping to become an actress.
- DirectorStenoStarsGigi ProiettiEnrico MontesanoCatherine SpaakBruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is always at the track together with his friends Armando Pellicci, known as "Er Pomata" cause his use of hair gel, and Felice. They always bet on the wrong horses and they always end up being penniless.
- DirectorGian Luigi PolidoroStarsUgo TognazziBernadette LafontFelice AndreasiGino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAlberto SordiBice ValoriSara FranchettiThe eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
- DirectorPasquale Festa CampanileStarsUgo TognazziMariangela MelatoVittorio CaprioliThe real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinPhilippe NoiretFour inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsGiancarlo GianniniLina SastriAldo GiuffrèDuring a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinAdolfo CeliThe four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsAlberto SordiAnnie GirardotFernando ReyA tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoDino RisiFranco RossiStarsNino ManfrediIlaria OcchiniRiccardo GarroneIn the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. In the second part, Prof. Beozi, in order to avoid a scandal, ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals. In the third part, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him since nobody has the courage of uncovering the true reason for him being unwanted.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsUgo TognazziCatherine SpaakBéatrice AltaribaA middle-aged and slightly conservative businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one named Francesca. He is pursuaded to join their party and even pay for most of it, as he finds himself strangely attracted to Francesca, who seems his complete opposite.
- DirectorFranco GiraldiStarsMonica VittiUgo TognazziOrazio OrlandoComedy about a man (Tognazzi) who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's (Vitti) testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniGian Luigi PolidoroEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediAlexandra StewartMagda KonopkaAn anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsGiancarlo GianniniSilvia MontiHiram KellerA humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala. "It's a film close to my heart. It was an old project called Essere un mostro ('Being a Monster') and this, too, is the story of an 'anti-hero'. Giannini was extraordinary". (A. Lattuada)
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsAlberto SordiGianna Maria CanaleElena NicolaiDuring the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanAnn-MargretEleanor ParkerA middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.
- DirectorUgo TognazziStarsUgo TognazziMaria Grazia BuccellaGastone MoschinA businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place.
- DirectorRiccardo PazzagliaStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaFiorenzo FiorentiniA man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
- DirectorFlavio MogheriniStarsRenato PozzettoJanet AgrenStefano Satta FloresThe Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his character.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsUgo TognazziGiovanna RalliOmbretta ColliIn the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen
- DirectorDino RisiStarsRenato PozzettoEdwige FenechAldo MaccioneAntonio Barozzi, an aspiring actor, goes to Rome to seek both fame and fortune.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsMonica VittiGigi ProiettiUmberto OrsiniTo the St. Andrew's Church in Rome comes a fugitive - Cesare Angelotti, former consul, who was sentenced to death for taking a part in a conspiracy against tyranny that rules the country. In further escape helps him his friend, young painter Mario Cavaradossi. A bit later the chief policeman Scarpia reaches the church. He notices the similarity between the portrait of Maria Magdalena, Cavaradossi has been working on, and Rome countess named Attavanti. Scarpia shows these details to Cavaradossi's beloved - singer Tosca, what makes her jealous. Tosca gets to Cavaradossi's house with Scarpia's men. Chief of the police believes he will find the prisoner there, and... seduce Tosca he fell in love long before.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsUgo TognazziMariangela MelatoMichel GalabruAmedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMonica VittiStanley BakerCorin RedgraveA Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenato PozzettoNino ManfrediMara Venier
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsAlberto SordiVittorio De SicaFranco FabriziAugustino works as the General Secretary of Social Morality Union and takes fight to all kinds of mundane vices - striptease, nudity in movies and commercials. He is incorrupt and unyielding. Unfortunately, the rigid professional ethics sabotages his private life. Meanwhile, his boss plans to marry off his unattractive 29-year old daughter...to Augustino.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniMarco FerreriFranco RossiStarsNino ManfrediAnna Maria FerreroUgo TognazziA vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
- DirectorMarco VicarioStarsGiancarlo GianniniRossana PodestàGastone MoschinFrom his youth, Sicilian baron Paolo Castorini, is as attracted to women as they to him. However, he feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a serious thinker.
- DirectorVittorio SindoniStarsStefano Satta FloresMacha MérilLeopoldo TriesteIn "Hopelessly Yours", the son of a poor Sicilian tenant farmer who committed suicide due to a financial debt to a baron, 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian city after 15 years as a guest worker in Western Germany. He brings back to Sicily a Mercedes, 100 million Lire in his portfolio and the ambitious plan to gain the respect of the villagers through his financial success in Germany. This is not at all possible for him. Instead, the greedy Sicilians only get jealous. Some of them are plotting to grab his hard-earned assets. Immediately he is surrounded by the men and women of the Church and other institutions wanting him to become a "patron", and especially by women who quickly "fall in love" with him. The charming Baroness Valeria Lamìa is the first of these. They immediately become a couple, but surreptitiously, due to the Baroness's family circumstances. Carmelo wants to marry her. Despite the Baroness's charm, Carmelo is actually more interested in her daughter Jessica, with whom he falls in love as soon as he sees her in her youthful sports attire. Carmelo fantasizes more and more about Jessica. But the Baroness's plans to marry Carmelo are solely aimed at getting his money. Both Valeria's and Carmelo's plans are, however, thwarted. After several devastating blows due to the cunning and ruthless Valeria, Carmelo intends to take revenge upon his audacious enemies in a Sicilian way, but while he now must accept that he has failed in his endeavours, and that Jessica is "hopelessly his", he prompts for a more constructive solution by once again turning his back on his own greedy Sicilian people.
- DirectorFranco IndovinaStarsVittorio GassmanMartha HyerGila GolanBob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsDonatella TurriLuigi TencoUmberto D'OrsiRossella, a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the economic miracle is only an illusion.