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- Matilde Sarni lives in her villa near Rome. She has a son who has just married Donata and who is coming home after a series of recitals in the States. Mario, her son, is a famous opera singer and he is twenty years older than his wife. Besides Donata doesn't like country life. So when Mario leaves for a tour of recitals and Donata meets Giulio...
- Village teacher Ernesto is dominated by his wife. He has a passion for the theatre and has written a drama in verse called "Il Ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately, his only admirer is their servant Rosina. When the traveling company of Professor Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play anonymously. When the day arrives, the theatre is sadly empty, but then the news spreads that the author is the teacher..
- In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
- Beniamino 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.
- Filippo De Bellis is in love with a showgirl, Ester. But he must go to his uncle's ranch and leave her. In his ranch Filippo becames a pray for Corinna, who wants to marry him and have the ranch for herself and her father. But the Ester's show arrives in the country and...
- A variety of different people, both adults, children, families, young lovers and youth gangs, spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia outside Rome.
- A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
- Housemaid Maria has been engaged to Berto for 15 years. Berto doesn't have a steady job so he's waiting for his Uncle Matteo's death, when he will come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife, then for an actor and his wife on the verge of divorce, and last for Rafael, who wants to marry her. At last Uncle Matteo dies.
- Totò is a tailor, just not a great one. He is married and his son is to be baptized, and Totò hopes that his grandmother will be moved by the baptism to help him financially. Unfortunately the wet-nurse Maria loses the baby in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart; he "borrows" Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are waiting for him.
- Three friends, a mechanic a clockmaker and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father in law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
- After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
- Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
- Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
- 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.
- Pietro and Carmela love each other, but she has a bad name and Pietros's father, Andrea, opposes the marriage. Carmela has a beautiful voice and she could be a singer, but she renounces singing as token of her love for Pietro. Pietro is in debt to "Il tunisino" (The Tunisian) for a large sum of money and Carmela decides to save him by starting to sing again...
- Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble.
- Alvaro is been in jail, so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello, and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They only need a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
- Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.
- Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
- In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
- 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 conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
- Maruzzella is in love with Salvatore but Salvatore is infatuated with Donna Carmela who is the step-mother of Maruzzella. Besides, Carmela deprived Maruzzella of her inheritance. When Salvatore asks Renato, an old school-mate of his, to stay with him, the situation is slowly resolved.
- While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
- In Rome every year in August the wifes go on holiday on the seashore while their husbands stay at home to work. It is the period of the year most suitable to male unfaithfulness. Without their wives they look for amorous adventures. Mario, freshly married to Romana, falls deeply in love with Lionella and all his friends, Alberto, Fernando and Giacinto try to enjoy this time when they are single.
- Luciano teaches mathematics to Sandra to help her in school and they fall in love. Sandra has another suitor--Nicola, who is also rich. Then Luciano meets the French Brigitte and she wants him to come with her to Paris. Sandra's father is in financial straits and he is obliged to flee abroad.
- A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance. She poses as the lawyer who wrote the will and lets the real lawyer pass for herself. This way she will be able to discover the five men's vices and faults.
- It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
- The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
- Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico. Troubles for everyone.
- Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get along. When Armando's son, Paolino, runs away from his boarding school, his sister Lucia makes up a story about their paralyzed old father to move Paolino's teacher Roberto. Roberto is so touched to go to visit their father Armando...
- Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
- Sabrina is beautiful, Sabrina has beautiful legs, Sabrina has seven moles on her thigh which form the constellation Ursa Minor, Sabrina is also a thief and the German police know only about these seven moles. Teo is a photographer and is looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. Ted's partner Toni is in love with him; Ted's other partner Mario is in love with Toni. Teo accidentally takes a photo of Sabrina's legs in which the famous, sought-after moles are visible. Everyone tries to get something: Sabrina wants her photos back, Teo wants Sabrina's signature on the authorization to use the photo for the contest, Toni wants Teo's love, Mario wants Toni's attention, and Sabrina's uncle wants help stealing jewelry. In the end, one pair of beautiful legs will win the contest--but whose?
- A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
- Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
- An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.
- An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crashlands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.
- An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
- Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles". Immediately Sabella abandons Lucia and Raffaele and goes back in search of oil. But the ownership of the land is regulated by a will that assigns it to the first female heir between the children of Raffaele and Lucia and those of Emilio and Carmelina, all yet to come. Donna Sabella will want to make her voice heard.
- Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three. He is then robbed of his uniform and he is involved in a weapons trafficking. The other three are looking for him when they find three beautiful girls. At the end they all will meet at the night club Alcazar. What will it happen?
- The baron Ludovico Bonfanti lost all he had by gambling and he was forced to entrust his daughter Marina to his sister Adelaide. He promised never to tell Marina he was an actor. Now Marina is grown up and Adelaide is looking for a rich man to marry her, but Marina finds out the truth about her father and falls in love with Franco whom she believes poor. But Franco is a Marquis.
- Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.
- Two musclemen come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
- Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
- Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
- A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
- Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him. Teo seems to be tempted by the offer...
- A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth. The counts Ornano have invested all they had in Maura, hoping in a good marriage. Mattea gets a fake invitation for her daughter Regina. Nicky Improta has prepared a really great surprise for her mother. Massimo falls in love with Maura Ornano who, according to the family plan, should marry Enrico. The cards are shuffled.
- During Madeleine's fashion show, Claire meets Antoine and becomes his mistress. Since she's married to George, a wealthy man with a modest job, she only spends a few days a week with Antoine, who is also rich, often taken to meeting by his chauffeur Marius--and also the lover of Madeleine, Claire's best friend. Everything works perfectly until Madeleine discovers the truth. She prepares her vengeance and organizes a celebration which she invites Antoine, Claire, and George.
- "Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
- Ugo, Raimondo and Marcella, are a trio of unsuccessful actors who specialize in crime shorts which are never seen. While they are rehearsing a proposed short in front of a producer in a boarding-house bedroom, they are seen through the window by Arturo, who takes Ugo and Raimondo as real killers and Marcella as their victim. Arturo is married to a faithless, two-timing woman, Annalisa, whom he would like very much to dispose of, and he manages to contact Ugo and Raimondo through a newspaper ad and promises them a large sum of money if they will carry out the job for him. Neither man would hurt a fly, but they need the money so badly, they pretend to accept the job. They work out an elaborate plan that will convince Arturo his wife is dead and he will pay them. But neither of them knows that Arturo's wife also has plans to get rid of him and, together with her lover, she too has a plan and intends to use it, while using Ugo as the fall-guy.