Alberto Lattuada

When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (imdb)

Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians... (imdb)

Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). (AllMovie)

Even if Giovanni Episcopo accuses himself of the murder of Giulio Wanzer, his real crime has in fact always been to be too good for his own good (imdb)

An idyllic May-December romance becomes unraveled when the much-older man begins suspecting that his tender young lover may be his own daughter, the result of an illicit affair many years before. (allmovie)

Based on Nikolai Gogol's story with the location changed from Russia to Italy and the time changed to the present (1952), the story is about a poor city-hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is for a new overcoat. (imdb)

The title character is Ernesto (Amadeo Nazzari), who turns to crime after suffering shell shock during WW II. Magnani plays Ernesto's faithful girlfriend Lydia. Their relationship is as foredoomed as Ernesto himself, who comes to grief through an extreme act of self-sacrifice. (allmovie.com)

The plot is based on an actual postwar dilemma: in Northern Italy, dozens of black American GIs chose to go AWOL rather than return to a racially divided United States. John Kitzmiller plays an occupation soldier named Jerry, who decides to remain in Italy when he falls in love with a blonde, Caucasian local girl named Angela (Carla Del Poggio). (allmovie.com)

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities. (imdb)

After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition. (imdb)

Anna is a nurse and a nun, whose history catches up on her. (imdb)

Two German spies and a woman physician (Suzy Kendall) are taken by submarine to Scotland where they enter the country at nightfall. Their mission is to assassinate the British Field Marshall Lord Kitchener. The woman's male companions are captured, but she escapes with the knowledge of what boat the Marshall is on. Boarding the submarine, the Germans make plans to bomb the boat with a series of strategically placed land mines. (allrovi.com)

A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. (imdb)

A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist. (imdb)

In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl... Written by Giancarlo Cairella

Lattuada's first masterpiece is considered by many to be Il Mulino del Po, which, though considered neo-realist, was atypically based on a novel and set in the past. Co-scripted with Fellini and others, it dramatized the agrarian struggles in northern Italy in the 19th century and the rise of socialism there. Its release in 1949 coincided with a national strike of agricultural workers. Lattuada would later recall with satisfaction that this epic film, which used Soviet style montage effects. (Surreal Moviez)

Augusto, an entrepreneur from Lombardy, loves nature so deeply that he cannot bring himself to sell the park near his button factory. Seduced by Palmira, one of the workers, he marries her and has a son. The insatiable woman wants to get her hands on her husband's fortune, and with the help of a group of accomplices has him confined to a mental hospital. Little does she know that Augusto will find true love within its walls. (pardolive)

A florentine Notary is worried about his beautiful wife's sterility. The sly Callimaco, a rich and fun-loving young man, organizes a plot to contact Lucrezia: pretending to be a French doctor he prepares a prodigious potion that cures the woman's sterility but... (movie-time)

Story of prostitute and her child who spends a holiday in the seaside. (bfi)

This action-packed romp pokes fun at James Bond while supplying a bounty of chases, espionage and pretty girls. American journalist Perry Liston (Patrick O'Neal) is suddenly thrust into the spy game when he acquires a ring that can make him temporarily invisible. Perry is recruited to steal secrets from master criminal Gregori Andreanu (Donald Pleasence) but finds himself the target of several foreign agents who want to abscond with his ring. (Netflix)

Story of a middle-aged bachelor looking for a lady to look after him for the rest of his life. based on the novel "la spartizione" di Piero Chiara. (bfi)

From the novel by Bulgakov. Following the grafting of a human hypophysis, the dog of an eminent scientist is turned into a man. The dog-man is the source of much trouble and the scientist has only one choice: that of reversing the miraculous process. (bfi)

Story of sexual awakening and disillusionment of a girl student. (bfi)

Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change? (imdb)

A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for her daughter's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.

An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman. (imdb)

Biagio Solise loves working on the windows of Milan's skyscrapers but is overwhelmed on the ground by the tumult and pressure of crowded streets. He also earns money working as an extra at the La Scala opera. When a famous diva is murdered, he decides that he wants to be convicted of the crime, in order to become famous. Despite the fact that he is innocent, his frenzied improvisations put the police on trail and eventually imprison him. (FILMAFFINITY)