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- Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
- Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
- Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
- During the Spanish Civil War, a Falangist assigned to the University City is ordered to tour Madrid disguised as a Republican militiaman to deliver a message to a leader of the Resistance. Once the order is fulfilled, he takes the opportunity to visit his girlfriend, who lives under the protection of the father of his maid, a faithful Republican. But when the Falangist returns to the University City, he is seriously wounded and takes refuge in a hollow in which a wounded militiaman is also hiding. Together they will spend the last hours of their lives, understanding the futility of a fratricidal war.
- Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
- Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.
- A woman of humble origins who marries a nobleman in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, the unstoppable force of their love hits an immovable object: his grandmother.
- An electronic engineer is called by the Hungarian Television Directorate to test the new television installations. He arrives in the capital, Budapest, together with his girlfriend.
- Cesare, a long-distance fuel tanker driver, separates from his lonely young wife after they argue. This leaves him angry and taciturn. One day he meets Piera and he falls in love again. But after a while Piera too complains.
- The girls of a college suspect one of them, Maria, of having an affair with Marini, a handsome chemistry teacher. Anna, another student and a snobbish socialite, is under Marini's spell and finds a rival in Maria. Things are tense for a while until the truth is unveiled: the man Maria gave a kiss to was her father, not the chemistry teacher. When Maria has an accident, her jealous co-ed repentantly helps her. She can now marry the man she loves.
- In an updated version of the Butterfly story, a visiting American conductor leaves a pregnant singer in Italy, promising to return and marry her. Four years later he returns with a wife and hears his old love perform her swan song.
- The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.
- While on her way to dance class, ballerina Greta Larsen is given a ride by the handsome crown prince Giorgio. Though it's all very innocent, gossiping tongues begin wagging and before long Greta has been identified as the prince's love.
- In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.
- The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
- This movie takes place in the Papal State in the first half of the 19th century. Roman countess Vanina Vanini falls in love with revolutionary Pietro Mirilli.
- Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
- Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.
- Being in Rome to participate in a tennis tournament, young socialite Elena Silvagni learns about the sudden death of her father, a wealthy Lombardian industrialist.
- A brilliant singer is in love with a gifted composer but, during one of her performances, she collapses and a doctor warns her she must never sing again. Since her contract with the opera company specifies that the work of her lover/composer is part of the repertoire only if she sings, his work appears to be doomed.
- The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.
- Poggioli's masterpiece, a precursor to Neorealism, was shot on location in Genoa and tells the story of a 'humiliated and mistreated' maid, who sacrifices herself to save a child. The mainstream flirts with anti-bourgeoisie sentiments. "The dance hall scene is strikingly beautiful". (G. Buttafava)
- An elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.
- Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
- Young Susanna one evening comes alone in the "Red Tavern" night club to meet some friends. While waiting, she sits alone and realizes the presence of her father, who would never accept her presence in such a place.
- Theatrical adaptation: An upper middle class family can't pay its debts and must relocate to the country. The daughter teaches English lessons and the son, addicted to gambling, must also work.
- A young man, lover of a mature upper-class lady, falls in love with a girl from whom he hides the fact that he is already engaged. In order to win her over, he hires two actors to play the part of his parents.
- The yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage.
- An educational sailing trip is cut short by the outbreak of war, and the boys must decide what to do.
- Dark drama about two young girls arriving in Paris to look for a better life.
- A 19th century count of declining fortunes is approached by three ambitious men who have designs on whatever wealth he still maintains.A mysterious document plays a part in this drama.
- A stage actor playing the part of the lover disappears in order to teach the entrepreneur behind the play a lesson.