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An open hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan

A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit

In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war

Naples, 1806 The king Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is frowned upon by the people, especially the comic theatrical Pulcinella, which continually delivers hard sermons, earning a reputation among the Neapolitans

Lawyer De Sica is drawn into the marriage problems of his glamorous neighbor

In post war Italy, a working class mans bicycle is stolen He and his son set out to find it

Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer

A kind hearted taxi driver runs into a glamorous girl and falls in love with her, but she turns out to be a cheap thief

A bigot obsesses over the gigantic poster of a voluptuous pin up, a married woman finds a way of dealing with her husbands passion for call girls, a sacristan wins a night with a beautiful fairground woman in a village lottery and a married couples mishap enables them to buy their own house Four of the greatest Italian directors Fellini, Visconti, De Sica and Monicelli join forces with show stoppe

September 1943 in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles

Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employers car

Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies

Clara, diagnosed with tubercolosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps, where she can finally take a break from her miserable life

Julia, a fashion designer harboring a secret, spends ten days of passion in the Alps with Valerio, a race car driver, in what will be their last vacation together

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome

Four year old Prico becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives

An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed Frisky

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen day guided bus tour of nine European countries

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII

Seven portraits of different types of women

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Romes Stazione Termini

An industrialist tries to corrupt the deputy mayor by exploiting his oratory vanity, to prevent the panoramic view of his villa from being disfigured by a hospice

Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old scho

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife

A gambler very much in debt, sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless

Gold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him After saving a homeless mans life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his mone

When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed

Nero is on holiday at the seaside Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to c

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof