A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her...

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city;...

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an...

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause...

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.