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A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight during the immediate after WWII.

The action takes place in Lombardy after the Italian capitulation in World War II, when the area was under German occupation. The protagonist is a former soldier who returned home, but ultimately decides to join the partisans who fight against the occupiers.

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

In 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.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Documentary on aspects of early 1960s Italy not sufficiently covered by its newspaper industry or its television services.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

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

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.

The muscular Hercules performs his Labors, sails with the Argonauts, and romances the fair Iole.

Romolo and Salvatore are two young men who are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna.

Scheming Messalina marries Roman Emperor Claudius but goes too far with a gladiator.

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.

Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.

Don Fernando, the son of El Cid, rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

Marcus Numidius (Ettore Manni), a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius (Georges Marchal). Princess Amira (Gianna Maria Canale), with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent.

In their first cinematic adventure, Apache chief Winnetou and mountain man Old Shatterhand pursue a gang of murderous outlaws who will stop at nothing to find the legendary treasure of Silver Lake.

Cèsar Guzman lives on a ranch with his pregnant wife Analupe. One night, when she is alone, 7 men try to rob the ranch. She recognizes the chief and he strangles her. When Cèsar gets back home, with the help of Silveira and Abriles, he seeks revenge for the death of his wife.

Renegade Indians, led by Yellow Hand, are being sold guns by Donaldson. Buffalo Bill is sent to stop the arms trading and avert an Indian war.

Gaillardo sees injustice done to the former Californians by the victorious North American governor and his rotten clique. Keeping cool in public and society, he wears his black clothes and mask at night to avenge his people.

On his own wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett must leave and try to arrest two bank robbers.

A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.