During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him...

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the...

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left...

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful...

A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses...

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished...