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The 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.

Thanks 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.

Everyday 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.

Un proxeneta se encuentra en una encrucijada cuando su prostituta es encarcelada.

A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.

To 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.

In 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...

Nando 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.

Maria (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.

Fifteen-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.

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.

Anthology 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.

Anna 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.

In post-war Italy during the 1950s, finding a house to rent is so difficult that a family ends up living in a former brothel.

Rosario 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.

The 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.

Misery 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.

After 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.

Romulus and Salvatore are two Roman boys, engaged respectively with Anna Maria and Marisa, the first sister of Salvatore and the second of Romulus.

Una mujer de clase baja intenta desesperadamente que su hija vaya al cine.

Mathematics professor Michele starts a new job at an unorthodox school. After a murder nearby, he meets colleague Bianca, sparking a relationship. Will their bond grow as Michele aids the investigation?

On Election Day, three Italians travel to their hometowns to vote.

During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.

A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.