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- DirectorGennaro RighelliStarsAnna MagnaniNino BesozziVirgilio RientoThe two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
- DirectorGennaro RighelliStarsAnna MagnaniVittorio De SicaVirgilio RientoThanks 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.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsNino TarantoAlberto SordiWalter ChiariEveryday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsFranco CittiFranca PasutSilvana CorsiniA pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneNatasha HoveyFlorinda BolkanA school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.
- DirectorPasquale Festa CampanileStarsCatherine SpaakNino ManfrediVittorio CaprioliTo get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsClaudio AmendolaTahnee WelchVirna LisiIn an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...
- DirectorStenoStarsAlberto SordiMaria Pia CasilioIlse PetersonNando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to walk like John Wayne, and to eat cornflakes with ketchup - His life is a parody of the real American way of life that he could not get. Nando's not-so-secret dream is to visit the USA, so he climbs up to the Coliseum and threats to commit suicide if the American Embassy does not give him the visa. But at this point Nando is very well known as a 'crazy-for-USA' boy and the troubles he provoked will not help him.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsValentina CorteseAndrea ChecchiLeo DaleMaria (Velentina Cortese) comes to Rome to do what she can to aid the war-stricken people of her village, and meets Dick (Leo Dale), an American soldier in Rome on furlough from the front lines. He is concerned only with winning her companionship, while she tries to keep her mind on the mission that brought her there. They both eventually accomplish their goals, and when he returns to the front, there is a promise that they will be reunited after the war.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsAsia ArgentoCarlotta NatoliClaudia PandolfiFifteen-year-old Simona has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Simona is a victim of incest.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsCesare FerrettiMichela MioniEnzo Di BenedettoThe alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.
- DirectorMario ChiariPietro GermiGlauco PellegriniStarsFranco InterlenghiLeonora RuffoPaola BorboniAnthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
- DirectorStenoStarsMonica VittiJohnny DorelliEnrico Maria SalernoAnna wants to improve her marriage to sculptor Marco but ends up having an affair with her new teacher Antonio. While performing a careful balancing act alternating between her two lovers, she becomes pregnant and realizes she doesn't know which is the father, so she goes to a weekend retreat on her own. After Marco sees her off at the train station, he and Antonio meet, hit it off, and decide to have a guys' night out on their free weekend.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsPeppino De FilippoLaura AdaniCristina GaioniIn post-war Italy during the 1950s, finding a house to rent is so difficult that a family ends up living in a former brothel.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAlberto SordiMarco GuglielmiFranco CoopRosario Scimoni is twenty years old and lives in Catania at the beginning of this century. He loves two things in life: women and money and he is the secretary of the mayor who is his uncle, and the lover of the mayor's wife, but, unfortunately, he isn't paid for neither of his two jobs. When Rosario falls in love with Paola, partner af a socialist, he becames socialist and let the man of Paola go to jail to have her, but he has no success. When Mussolini and his fascists take the power, Rosario found himself fascist and he marries a women ugly but rich. He becames a gerarca (high fascist authority). When during World War II Sicily is invaded by the allied troops he camouflages himself as communist and at the end of the war he goes to Rome after losing all the money he had. In Rome Rosario changes again his skin and becames a Chistian Democrat after the Christian Democrat's victory in the elections of 1948. Trying to speculate on the land near Rome he ends in prison for five years and in 1953 Rosario closes his career dressed as a German selling faked German gadgets in the streets of Rome.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsVittorio GassmanRenato SalvatoriClaudia CardinaleThe usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
- DirectorTonino CerviStarsAlberto SordiLaura AntonelliValérie AllainMisery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made, and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneBarbara CupistiFederico RizzoAfter intercepting a call, police officer Carlo conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper-class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Rosanna's 6-year-old son Giulio comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Since Carlo is responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until she is freed. Carlo tries to get Social Services to look after him, but the Courts tell him that he's the best choice for caregiver until a better one is found. Although Giulio disarranges Carlo's life, Carlo gets to like Giulio and falls for Rosanna while she's in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out to dinner.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsMarisa AllasioMaurizio ArenaRenato SalvatoriRomulus and Salvatore are two Roman boys, engaged respectively with Anna Maria and Marisa, the first sister of Salvatore and the second of Romulus.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsAnna MagnaniWalter ChiariTina ApicellaA woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLaura MoranteRoberto VezzosiMichele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneElena FabriziIrina SanpiterOn Election Day, three Italians travel to their hometowns to vote.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsAlberto SordiGianna Maria CanaleElena NicolaiDuring the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiShelley WintersVincenzo CrocittiA meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneEleonora GiorgiChristian De SicaSergio Benvenuti finds a job as musical agent to an important Italian publisher. This could be his final step before to marry Rossella. But his career does not rise, so he asks Nadia Vandelli, a more-experienced agent and a nice girl, to work with him for just one day to gain more experience. They must meet Manuel Fantoni in his own flat; Nadia is late, but Sergio goes ahead with the meeting. By the time she arrives, Sergio has found out that Fantoni isn't what he said he was. Things escalate quickly until Sergio lands in an incredible situation from which he can't escape.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoStarsAlberto SordiMario RivaPatrizia Della RovereThe master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsSilvana PampaniniUgo TognazziNando BrunoCarlo wins some money in a card game and goes to Rome to celebrate. Unfortunately he gets his money stolen and asks a friend of his for a loan. The friend is however about to get married. The future wife however changes her mind and leaves in a taxi with Carlo. Since the two are broke they spend the rest of the day trying to raise the money for the taxi fare which keeps getting higher by the minute. This surrealistic situation helps them fall in love with each other.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsFrancesco AnniballiMaria BoscoGiselda CastriniFour generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsAlberto SordiGiulietta MasinaMara BerniAlberto is a mediocre lawyer, with good dialectics, but unable to win causes, even very easy. He is married to Clara, but during her absences, often involved in charity and religious pilgrimages with a high society ladies' commission, Alberto is not ashamed of attending nightclubs with his friend and colleague Vittorio and enter into distractions with other women.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsNino ManfrediAnnette StroybergMaurizio ArenaA soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
- DirectorFranco FerriniStarsBarbara De RossiMarina SumaAthina CenciA serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer?
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsGian Maria VolontèLuigi SquarzinaPeter BaldwinAn Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?
- DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsGian Maria VolontèMattia SbragiaBruno ZaninThe story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGiancarlo GianniniMassimo GhiniAnna FalchiThe difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just-ended WWII.
- DirectorGiandomenico CuriStarsValerio AndreiAntonella AntinoriSonia CameriereRome, June 1987. It is the day of Vasco Rossi's concert at the Palazzo dello Sport and a group of teenagers enjoys the start of the summer holidays.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsFrancesco RuiuGiancarlo De RosaVincenzo CiccoraWhen a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneNancy BrilliAlessandro BenvenutiFormer high-school friends meet for a party after 15 years, but discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.
- DirectorAlberto SordiStarsAlberto SordiCochi PonzoniFlorinda BolkanThe film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
- DirectorFelice FarinaStarsCarlo Delle PianeLeda LojodiceFausta Maria RigoAccountant Michele Marrone, who has just moved with his family to Magliana, is appointed as administrator at the condominium.
- DirectorChristian De SicaStarsChristian De SicaOrnella MutiGaleazzo BentiAlfredo is a rough Roman motorbike repairer, a friend of Count Max, a spurned gentleman. The latter invites Alfredo to his residence in Campo de 'Fiori and teaches him etiquette, French and how to play poker.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsTotòGino CerviIrene GalterA wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediVittorio GassmanStefania SandrelliThree partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
- DirectorBruno CorbucciStarsTomas MilianBomboloEnzo CannavaleThe officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.
- DirectorFilippo Walter RattiStarsGino CerviAndrea ChecchiCarlo D'AngeloA cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
- DirectorGiuseppe Patroni GriffiStarsLaura AntonelliTerence StampMichele PlacidoA beautiful woman (Laura Antonelli) engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other. Set in the decadent Roaring Twenties, the triangle dissolves against suicide and fascism.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsChristian MarquandCatherine SpaakJean SorelFrancesca, a 17-year old school girl, has a vivid dream of making love to Enrico, a 37-year old divorced architect and family friend. She turns her dream into reality by meeting Enrico during a regular school day.
- DirectorAnton Giulio MajanoStarsMaria FioreSophia LorenVittorio SanipoliIn the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsAnna BaldiniVera CarmiEmilio CigoliA variety of different people, both adults, children, families, young lovers and youth gangs, spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia outside Rome.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsTotòVera MolnarNyta DoverA barber compelled by jealousy to commit murder spends 20 years in jail. But when he's released he cannot adapt to a changed world and the hypocrisy of his relatives, so he decides to return to prison.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiGiancarlo GianniniA three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLuisa RossiLina SastriAn ironic peek into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanAlexander KnoxEttore GianniniA wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.
- DirectorChristian De SicaStarsNadia RinaldiPaco RecontiAgnese NanoDaniela, a true Roman girl with a big face, weighs over a hundred kilos and always has the joke ready. She cohabits in a tiny apartment with her friend Luisa and works as an assistant to Maria Pace, owner of an art gallery.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsPaolo VillaggioAnna MazzamauroGigi RederA good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsPaolo VillaggioAnna MazzamauroMilena VukoticAfter a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
- DirectorStenoStarsGigi ProiettiEnrico MontesanoCatherine SpaakBruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is always at the track together with his friends Armando Pellicci, known as "Er Pomata" cause his use of hair gel, and Felice. They always bet on the wrong horses and they always end up being penniless.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoLina PolitoWhen a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneRegina OrioliInes NobiliThe life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish divorced husband, a careless father, and unreliable brother who's been everything jobwise. The story is told in flashback by his friends after he is mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniGiulietta MasinaFranco FabriziAmelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniJohn VernonTwo neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenato SalvatoriCarla GravinaTomas MilianThe Italian armistice and the beginning of resistance to the Germans in Italy during World War II.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsBurt LancasterHelmut BergerSilvana ManganoA reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
- DirectorStenoStarsGabriella PallottaNino ManfrediFausto CiglianoOtello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
- DirectorGiuseppe Patroni GriffiStarsElizabeth TaylorIan BannenGuido MannariA mentally-disturbed spinster experiences a series of bizarre encounters in Rome as she searches for someone she feels she'll know--when she finds him.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediDanilo MatteiCarmen ScarpittaIn 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power. That night, three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested for the bombing. He uses his influence to gain the youth's release, hides him, and then engages in doomed battles of wit with the court and with the Black Pope to free the other two. Can this priest be a father, blunt power, and live out his faith?
- DirectorAlberto SordiStarsAlberto SordiValeria MariniFranca FaldiniArmando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost eighty years, accidentally meets Federica, a handsome young nurse.
- DirectorFrancesco MaselliStarsClaudia CardinaleRod SteigerShelley WintersA penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsLeigh McCloskeyIrene MiracleEleonora GiorgiAn American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.
- DirectorFranco CastellanoGiuseppe MocciaStarsAdriano CelentanoOrnella MutiAdolfo CeliBarnaba, a rude bus driver who enjoys the attention of women, one day meets Principessa Cristina, the princess of a local principality.
- DirectorAlberto SordiStarsAlberto SordiMonica VittiIsabella De BernardiA bank clerk rethinks his life after he learns the results of the surveillance of his family.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAlberto SordiSylva KoscinaEttore ManniCencio, 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.
- DirectorNicolò FerrariStarsGiorgia MollTomas MilianAnne VernonLaura, a beautiful young middle class woman, marries Franco just to see what it is like to tie in the knot. She is not happy with him and tries to find happiness in the arms of a couple of men, among whom a respected teacher. But her quest is a failure and , in the end, she finds herself helpless and desperate.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsWilliam HopperJoan TaylorThomas Browne HenryThe first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
- DirectorMarcello FondatoStarsClaudia CardinaleVittorio GassmanRenato PozzettoWhen Tina is put on trial for murdering her violent and unfaithful husband, Gino, only one juror, the housewife Gabriella, believes in her innocence. Gabriella tries to find a witness who can absolve Tina.
- DirectorPaolo CostellaStarsMassimo BoldiVincenzo SalemmeNancy BrilliGustavo is a chef Milan widower who runs a restaurant in Rome: in his local work former boxer Rocky and dishwasher Cecco.
- DirectorStenoStarsUgo TognazziYvonne FurneauxRaimondo VianelloA farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the Allied Army and the partisans fight the Nazis.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsChristian De SicaMassimo BoldiDean JonesWhile visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy.
- DirectorMario CaianoStarsAntonio SabatoLuciana PaluzziGabriele FerzettiStory about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
- DirectorIvan SilvestriniStarsMatilde GioliMatteo MartariGiulio BeranekA chance meeting between two young strangers sparks an unforgettable evening in this romantic drama. Looking to get away from the nightclub where they've met, Lei and Lui begin a conversation that will change their plans, and possibly their lives.
- DirectorClaudio GoraStarsYvonne MonlaurClaudia CardinaleFrançoise DanellThree girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places of the city. The girls accept and make the guys spend a fortune, but one evening they get drunk and one of them incidentally reveals she's just from Milan. The guys get upset and set up a sort of revenge, but in the end they make it up. One of the very first movies with Claudia Cardinale in a leading role.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsDidi PeregoGino BramieriPeppino De FilippoFour comedic episodes follows different taxi drivers.
- DirectorLuca VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneRenato PozzettoTiziana PiniTwo not-too-clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise that people can lose 7 kilos in 7 days; when the enterprise fails, they open a gourmet restaurant.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniBernardo BertolucciGiuseppe BertolucciStarsTonino AccollaElio BartoliniAmelia MartelloPromotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
- DirectorLuciano De CrescenzoStarsSilvio CeccatoBenedetto CasilloSergio SolliThree episodes about the relativity of time.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsBarbara BouchetEdwige FenechDayle HaddonFive short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to watch a young woman; he watches her a little too closely. In another, while Barbara Bouchet's husband is out of town on business, a stranger offers her twenty million lire in return for sex. Three times he offers, three times she protests and then consents, only to find out in the end that both the man and his sixty million lire are -- oh, but that would spoil the ending. :-)
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsMichael YorkMichael BiehnJoseph MakkarMegiddo is a supernatural ride into a world teetering on the edge of the Apocalypse. It follows the rise of a Machiavellian leader bent on amassing the armies of the world for the battle of Armageddon while calamities of Biblical proportions pummel the Earth. Though both prequel and sequel to The Omega Code, Megiddo works also as a stand alone story for anyone who missed its predecessor, for, at its emotional core, Megiddo is the Caine and Abel story of the two men enamored with the same woman, raised as brothers, who grew up to find themselves pitted against each other over the fate and souls of the entire world.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsFosco GiachettiJacqueline LaurentEnzo FiermonteIn Renaissance Rome, the captain of Strozzi mercenary kills the banker Chigi that has refused the hand of his daughter Berta, girlfriend of Giuliano de 'Medici, brother of Cardinal Giovanni. Accused of the crime is instead the young Julian, who is arrested and locked up in jail while awaiting trial. Meanwhile the real murderess unashamedly confesses the crime to Cardinal Giovanni, who can not violate the secrecy of confession remain helpless before the judges who condemn him to the gallows. But shortly before the Cardinal with a ruse it shall enable the Strozzi to confess the crime in the presence of witnesses hidden. Giuliano is immediately released and can then marry his Berta.
- DirectorStefano SollimaStarsPierfrancesco FavinoFilippo NigroMarco GialliniA look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsAldo FabriziAlberto SordiMara BerniA prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsSimone SignoretMarcello MastroianniSandra MiloWhen a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniMassimo MidaStarsMassimo GirottiMarina BertiGiulietta MasinaIn Rome a young man is falsely accused of killing his girlfriend.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoStarsAkiko WakabayashiPierre BriceMarisa MerliniThe quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there. At first Ottavia is upset by knowing of her husband's affair in Japan, and suspicious of the girl whose "exotic" habits and manners arouse the curiosity of the whole neighborhood. Pretty soon however Ottavia and her neighbors are conquered by the good-natured Akiko, who soon finds a job as tourist guide (it's the year of the Olympic Games, and tourists are flocking to Rome from everywhere including Japan). But Akiko must beware of young Italian men.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsValeria GolinoNiccolò SenniFrancesca Di GiovanniA little girl gets hurt by her mother's syringe. Her teenage half-brother tries to get her to get an HIV and hepatitis tests without their parents' knowledge, which causes more trouble.
- DirectorGianluca AnsanelliStarsDario BandieraAurora CossioCarmine FaracoA television network wants to renew the world of entertainment and stages a new program called "The Last Resort". The only requirement is that competitors must be so desperate that they have nothing to lose.