A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.
Disperato addio
Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
La danza delle lancette
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
Sun, Sea, Love and a beautiful Italian beach...
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic of "Nonduras" from the oppression of dictator Bonarios. Parody of The Magnificent Seven, five writers got together for an anemic script that exploits a repertoire mixture with the song "A man alive"by Gino Paoli.
A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Moglie e buoi...
Mamma
Comedy with Renato Rascel
Villa da vendere
An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Mariti in pericolo
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures.
As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home.
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt, favorite of the king, who comes from Versailles just to see him. She will saved his life and allow him to marry Rosetta.
When his girlfriend falls for a rich entrepreneur, an aspiring singer plots with the man's girlfriend so that they can get back their respective partners.
Alvaro hunts for a treasure, of which he owns only half the map.
A young girl finds out that her father, an impoverished Baron, actually works as a stage actor.
A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
Spiaggia libera
An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
The voice of one of his former classmates studying singing causes an irresistible itch for a wealthy industrialist. The cause is an old aversion that the industrialist has for the singer: he can only heal by overcoming this aversion and transforming himself into a benefactor of the hated ex-partner.
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Voce senza volto
La bisarca
Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.
An amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain of Collegno: a man who has run away from his henpecking wife is welcomed by a rich woman who has mistaken him for her missing husband.
David Copperfield
