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Roman Holiday

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

It Happened in the Park

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Roman Tales

Alvaro is been in jail and 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 need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Loaded Guns

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

Commando

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

Love and Troubles

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.

Corporal of the day

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.

Roman Holiday

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

It Happened in the Park

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Roman Tales

Alvaro is been in jail and 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 need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Loaded Guns

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

Commando

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

Love and Troubles

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.

Corporal of the day

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.

The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The Balloon Vendor

A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.

The Assassination of Matteotti

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

Rome, early 1900s. Gigi, a young populace, falls in love with the rich Mara and, to satisfy the woman's desires, begins to steal.

The Dolls

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.

Società a responsabilità molto limitata

Siamo tutti inquilini

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

The Career of a Chambermaid

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

The Sign of Venus

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Natale in India

Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take place.

Toto and Carolina

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

A Day in Court

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

Poor But Beautiful

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

Un giglio infranto

Story of Fear and a Knife

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.

I Spy

A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.