Acting
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
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On a tropical island, doctors are trying to eradicate malaria, a disease that is causing numerous deaths. Two of them are in love with the same woman, Virginia, a doctor. One of them, Pietro Fischer, had previously been engaged to her, but was implicated in a murder, though innocent. Having fled to avoid prison, he is tried and convicted in absentia. Years later, he returns under the alias of Dos Passos, gaining a reputation as a talented scientist.
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous segregation - he holds prisoners the people entrusted to him by those who, for reasons of interest, have decreed their disappearance.
Directed by Emilio Ghione.
A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
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.
Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of beauty and Michele, gifted with a beautiful voice, agrees to sing in a club on behalf of an impresario who becomes his friend.
A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.
To conquer his beautiful mother without insospettirne, Polidor dresses for women and can thus safely visit the house, but was immediately made the subject of attention of the father of the girl, unrepentant libertine. And when you discover the trick, barrel on Polidor, but also on the elderly Don Giovanni, by the jealous wife.
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
