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The thief Tapioca (Totò) happens to meet Gaston home Ornano industrialist and his wife, Noris, who extorts money with incriminating letters. After discovering the blackmail Ornano arrests Tapioca. Eventually the three men form a society for the exploitation of compromising letters.

Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money. (imdb)

An Italian neorealist film that follows two friends struggling to survive during WWII by smuggling goods on the black market. The less scrupulous of the two finds success, while his honest friend makes life difficult for himself by taking in an orphan. (wordcat)

The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo. (imdb)

Satire set in the Middle Ages. A bride is locked in a chastity belt on her wedding night when her husband is called away to battle. (bfi)

After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco's other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself. The girl's relatives hold Anna responsible for the death and are ready to lynch her until Davide intervenes and is able to save her. (imdb)

Imputato, alzatevi! is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario.

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.

A meek bank teller gets a harsh lesson on how the world goes when he gets wrongfully accused of a huge robbery. All his friends and family turn their backs on him, until they realize he might have kept the money. When everyone thinks you're the bad guy, you may just as well play the part.

Mid-Century Loves (Italian: Amori di mezzo secolo) is a 1954 Italian anthology historical melodrama film consisting of five segments directed by Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari, Roberto Rossellini and Antonio Pietrangeli. (wikipedia.org)

Abandoned by his wife, a truck driver falls for a loose woman on the road, who in turn betrays him with his driving companion...

A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.

A heavily fictionalized account of the life of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).

The roman coachman Totò doesn't want his coach being replaced by cars and doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with the taxi driver Roberto. But it is Roberto who saves him when he gets into trouble.

Giacomo Perotti, who made his fortune in America, returns to Italy rich and wealthy. He wants, above all else, to find the woman who in his youth one day smiled at him, making him fall in love. This nostalgic and utopian dream is the chance for a shady entrepreneur to persuade him to finance a film in memory of the episode of his distant youth.

In Egypt, an old man decides to marry a beautiful young woman, who happens to be in love with another poor young man. (imdb)

The innocent romance between a teenage boy and his girl is threatened by some of the school staff who do not understand or sympathize. (imdb)

Naples. Pietro is a good boy, unintentionally he finds himself mixed up with a gang of crooks, led by Enrico, a dangerous French outlaw, he is instructed to collect the plans for a bank heist, but he absent-mindedly swaps the bag containing the briefcase of a high school girl, Mariuccia. (wikipedia.org)

Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in a refuge with some girls.