Nando Bruno

Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the leaders of the Resistance, is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his friend Francesco's, and asks Pina, Francesco's fiancée, for help (imdb)

In post-war Rome, poverty is everywhere. A suicidal man, a small time thief, a desperate typist, and a distinguished amnesiac are some of the characters trying to make it through the night, as they drift through bars and gambling dens.

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)

Our hero, Antonio, is the concierge at an apartment complex. He is about to be evicted from his place. A man dies and leaves him real engraved plates from the Italian mint that he had stolen years earlier after working for the government. (imdb)

The life of unemployed Otello Celletti gets completely turned around when he gets a job as a traffic policeman.

The story of Gastone, a struggling theater actor and dancer of the 1920s who's also a small delinquent known to the police and constantly blames his bad luck on the great war.

La Quaglia is the stationmaster of the small town of Piovarolo, a town where trains don't stop and where the station is small and almost useless. The years pass, La Quaglia gets married, a daughter is born and his awaited promotion never arrives. Maybe a dangerous mishap near the station will bring him some luck...or maybe not. ... (amazon)

Mr. Nardi, who has expensive tastes and not a good nose for business, is constantly asking his rich wife Elvira for large sums of money! One day, sick and tired of this habit of his, she refuses to help! Driven crazy by his creditors, while he rejoices at the news of his wife's train crushed into the lake... she arrives home by car! Determined to kill her at all costs, as the only way out of his financial miseries.. (movie-time)

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow? (imdb)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. (imdb)

Story of a love affair between an American girl in Rome and an Italian prince. (bfi)

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome to Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France, Ginette a widow with a four year old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move. Unfortunately for him his wife and petulant brother in law come to Paris too. He will have to decide between the two women. (bfi)

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man. (imdb)

In the Roman countryside during the Second World War, two American soldiers are hidden in a country house. One evening one of the soldiers, while drunk, meets a German soldier, equally drunk, and the two strike up a friendship. However the next day, when the drink has worn off, the war makes its presence felt once again as the Germans shoot the landlord who has been hiding the two Americans. (bfi)

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher, and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, Nando Bruno, the other tenants and the neighborhood . He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home. (imdb)

A janitor (Aldo Fabrizi) seeks the social redemption allowing the child, to the sound of sacrifices, to study until becaming a teacher right in the school where he works. (Wikipedia)

In this 1954 comedy, siren Sophia Loren plays two roles: Cleopatra and the slave girl who doubles for her. Every night, the Egyptian queen beds the soldier who guards her door, but the price he pays is his life. So, when a Roman soldier (played by Italian comedy king Alberto Sordi) is placed on Cleopatra's detail but becomes smitten with her look-alike slave instead, romantic complications put a wrinkle on this strange tradition. (netflix)

Life Begins Anew (Italian: La vita ricomincia) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Eduardo De Filippo. It was the second most popular Italian film during 1945-46 after Roberto Rossellini's Paisan.

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.