Brot, Liebe und Fantasie

Fröhlich bewegte Liebesgeschichte aus dem Alltag eines italienischen Bergdorfes. Ein angegrauter Carabinieri-Feldwebel schwankt unentschlossen zwischen einem wilden Naturkind und der verschlossenen Dorfhebamme.

Miracle of Marcellino

In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

Traffic Jam

A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.

Strange Occasion

Three sexy and comic episodes.

Basta che non si sappia in giro!..

Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the ...

Die Sonntagsfrau

Anna (Jacqueline Bisset) ist jung. Anna ist schön. Anna ist reich und Anna ist gelangweilt. So führt sie ihr luxuriöses Leben an der Seite ihres Mannes. Doch dann geschieht ein Mord und erschüttert das ruhige Leben von Anna. Der zuständige Kommissar Salvatore Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) muss in diesem Mordfall besonders behutsam vorgehen, denn ein Mord in der feinen Gesellschaft sorgt sonst für zu viel Aufsehen. Bald zählt Anna zu den Hauptverdächtigen in diesem Mordfall, doch je ...

Till Marriage Do Us Part

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

The Scopone Game

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs, habits, medicine, religion and most of all - the omnipresence of hypocrisy. Written by Yepok

Der Unverstandene

Als Andrea vom Tod seiner Mutter erfährt, zeigt er keinerlei Gefühlsregung, und so wendet sich der Vater seinem jüngeren Sohn Milo zu. Doch Andrea kämpft innerlich mit dem Verlust der Mutter, der fehlenden Zuneigung seines Vaters und dem komplizierten Verhältnis zu seinem kleinen Bruder.

Don Camillo in Moscow

The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron curtain, Don Camillo wants to join. Peppone is strictly against this but after Don Camillo threatens him to disclose information about an earlier side step the mayor agrees. Don Camillo arranges for false papers: He is now comrade Tarocci. Only Peppone and the other villagers know who he really ...

Bebo’s Girl

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.

Three Nights of Love

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

The Police Commissioner

Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.

On the Tiger’s Back

An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.

Everybody Go Home!

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

La bella di Roma

Frisky

"Bread, Love and Jealousy" (Italian: Pane, Amore e Gelosia), known as "Frisky" in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town. The film is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by "Bread, Love and Dreams" and followed by "Scandal in Sorrento". It is usually considered one of the ...

Bread, Love and Dreams

Marshal Antonio Carotenuto is sent to a remote Italian mountain village named Sagliena. He's anxious to marry, and selects young Gina Lollobrigida as his bride; but she is already in love with his shy subordinate Roberto Risso. Mistaking her headstrong behavior as promiscuity, Carotenuto makes advances towards her, but she spurns him. Forsaking the girl to the arms of Risso, the Marshal decides to settle for village midwife Marisa Merlini. Things become more complicated when Annarella, the ...

La tratta delle bianche

A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and tells her a story.

Heidi

Nirgendwo ist es schöner als zwischen den Almen und Felsentälern, durch die Heidi mit ihrem Freund Peter streift. Trotzdem fährt das Bergmädchen in die Stadt, um ihrer kranken Freundin Klara zu helfen. Weit weg von zu Hause überfällt sie bald das Heimweh.