Italy 1950

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

Stan inherits a yacht and a South Pacific island. Ollie and Stan sail there with 2 other men. They shipwreck on a new atoll and settle there. An ex-fiancee joins them. They declare an independent nation and problems arise.

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families, and their hardships as they decide to illegally cross the border to France.

Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.

A variety of different people, both adults, children, families, young lovers and youth gangs, spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia outside Rome.

Francesco Dominici has just returned from the front, fought for three years and was a prisoner for another three years.

Beppe Agosti, a Florentine and an orphan boy, is very fond of girls, especially maids.

Evelyne, the young wife of Judge Bertal, falls in love with Remy, who lives in Paris, during a holiday in Italy. After following him in the lovers city, she realizes Remy is the one she really loves, she decides to return home to inform her husband about all - but her plane crashes.

The innocent romance between a teenage boy and his girl is threatened by some of the school staff who do not understand or sympathize.

The prostitute Anna returns to her home, a volcanic island off the coast of southern Italy. Rossano, a procurer for a prostitution ring sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister. When Anna wants to do something drastic the Volcano erupts.

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried, found guilty, and imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escapes from prison and to survive he starts living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love with village girl Mara, who helps him hunt down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...

Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia's many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova who has been laying claim to the throne from the Crimea. Once there, he finds the local charms of the Princess hard to resist.

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.

A parody of author Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 'Tarzan of the Apes', starting Italian comedian Toto as Tarzan.

A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.

Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.

Gangster Leo discovers his lookalike Antonio, a bank clerk. Leo kidnaps Antonio, impersonates him to rob the bank, leaving witnesses accusing Antonio. However, Antonio's wife Dorothy's involvement complicates Leo's plan.

Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis, then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens are Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo), who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto). The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in: a corpse used to conceal contraband; serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time; a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker.