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- A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
- Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with. Shown in the USA with Italian dialogue and no English titles.
- In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
- Ercole Piazza, a rich widower, tries in every way to find a husband to the mocking daughter Adriana in order to live freely. The only one willing to accept the hand of the capricious girl is the smiling and patient Pio.
- After two brothers have sold a French property, one gambles away his francs on the Riviera and encounters a couple of chiselers.
- 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?
- Backstage melodrama: The past of a star tenor's wife catches up with her when the unsavory father of her illegitimate child returns.The jealous wife of the father murders him.
- 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.
- Based on the semi-historical novel by Giovanni Ruffinni which dealt with a revolution in the days of Ferdinand II. Ennio Cerlesi, a revolutionary leader, meets and falls in love with Maria Gambarelli, daughter of an Englishman. Theirs is a rocky romance with many obstacles tossed in their path, but true love prevails and they sail away together after he is extricated from prison with Maria's help
- 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.
- An old comedian is obliged to work as a servant. He meets a young woman who dreams of theatre career. Old man decides to set to stage a comic piece, Il Feroce Saladino. The young woman may see her dreams come true.
- 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.
- Four heirs in a wealthy family, while waiting to see who gets the inheritance, squabble over a missing lottery ticket.
- An industrialist benefactor offers a young couple three wishes.He wants to be an inventor, she a singer, but things don't turn out exactly as they would have liked.
- An elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.
- An industrialist benefactor offers a young couple three wishes.He wants to be an inventor, she a singer, but things don't turn out exactly as each of them hope.
- A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
- In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
- An attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
- Vincenzo and Giovanna have been destined for marriage since they were children by their terrible aunt Lucia. Once the wedding is celebrated, the two realize that they have never loved each other and go to the woman to try and help them cancel the marriage.
- 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.
- In order to encourage the young maestro Vernieri not to break down after the first failures, the director of the theater "La Scala" in Milan tells two significant episodes concerning the theater.