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- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVittorio GassmanDoris DowlingSilvana ManganoTwo criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
- DirectorGregory RatoffOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesNancy GuildAkim TamiroffHypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
- DirectorAnton Gino DomenighiniStarsStefano SibaldiGermana CalderiniGiulio PanicaliPrincess Zeila must choose a prince from among all the princes in Baghdad, despite the evil plotting of Jafar to thwart her hopes.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMichèle MorganHenri VidalMichel SimonIn ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean GabinIsa MirandaVera TalchiA French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMassimo GirottiCharles VanelJone SalinasA young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsAmedeo NazzariSilvana ManganoJacques SernasReturning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDulcie GrayMichael DenisonValentina CorteseAn aspiring composer and pilot is shot down over Italy and rescued by a girl who tells him about a local legend. Returning home to his loving wife, he is inspired to write an opera about the tale, but he longs to meet his rescuer again.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsAmedeo NazzariYvonne SansonAldo NicodemiFirst in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children, is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsMarcel CerdanFerruccio TagliaviniMischa AuerThree men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsCarla Del PoggioJacques SernasMario BesestiBerta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni.
- DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsRubi DalmaMichele MalaspinaDomenico Viglione BorgheseIn 1902 in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region, 12-year-old Maria Goretti lives with her parents, poor farmhands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy-drinking farmer who offered them board and lodging. Serenelli's 18-year-old son Alessandro is sexually attracted to the pious Maria, who resists his advances. One day the young man murders her because she won't give in to him. Before she dies, Maria forgives her assailant. After her death she is canonized as a saint.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsGina LollobrigidaYvonne SansonCarlo RomanoAgostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsTotòAlda ManginiLia AmandaBeniamino and his family have lived in a school since the end of World War II, but five years have passed and they are compelled to move, but finding an apartment in Rome is difficult. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but during the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Lastly they find a fine, large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsTotòGianni AppeliusGaleazzo BentiBeautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
- DirectorLuigi CarpentieriLadislao VajdaStarsPhyllis CalvertMichael RennieTullio CarminatiPatricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. She goes to great lengths in her attempts to locate it again and bring it back.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsDanielle DarrieuxJean DesaillyVictor GuyauOnce a lowly chambermaid, Amelie Pochet now revels as the pampered mistress of a military man named Etienne.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsLouis HaywardBinnie BarnesMariella LottiA group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòGianna Maria CanaleCarla CalòMobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsNino TarantoTotòVanda OsirisIn the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsErminio MacarioIsa BarzizzaGianni AgusEva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsGino CerviGina LollobrigidaOdile VersoisDuring his wedding day, a man, while is driving to the church for the ceremony, saves a woman from a suicide. The woman is pregnant and she's alone; the man carries her to a cloistered convent,where she gives birth to her son. That's an occasion for the man to reflect about his life.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsMassimo SeratoSilvana PampaniniAugusto Di GiovanniA young man returns to the Marechiaro district of Naples to try to win the girl he knew there when he was a foundling shipwrecked child.
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsAldo FiorelliSilvana PampaniniCarlo GiustiniFernando, a boy growing up in 1920's Italy, is inspired by reading a biography of Saint Anthony of Padua (after whom the city of San Antonio, Texas is named.) The wife of a young Roman painter who disappeared at the end of WWI goes to church with her son Fernando to pray to Saint Anthony for his return. After some time, the painter actually does return. Due to a head wound, he had lost his memory and recovered it on the same day his wife had invoked St. Anthony. The family visits St. Anthony's Basilica and purchases a book dedicated to Saint Anthony. The reading recalls the scenes and images in the life of the saint. The story is told entirely in flashbacks, as the adult Fernando recalls scenes from his childhood and, in turn, scenes from the life of the Saint.