Vera Carmi

Sunday, august 7th. Various people from Rome, poor and rich ones, spend their Sunday at the beach in Ostia.

Totò follows his beloved to Africa, where he encounters a cannibal tribe, but manages to save her from a dishonest explorer and help her find her anthropologist father. (worldcat)

Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer. The youth however gives the money to a dishonest girl he's in love with who gives it to her delinquent boy-friend. But when everybody seems to be in trouble because of his behaviour Marco... (imdb)

Unforgettable drama starred by Anna Magnani. The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and his wife meet his new chief.

In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam.