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An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride

Seven portraits of different types of women

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome

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

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life

Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife

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 t

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Romes Stazione Termini

Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret sing

An open hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan

Inspired by Boccaccios novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes

Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employers car

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war

Four year old Prico becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an 18 day guided bus tour of nine European countries

Christian Biton is a skiing instructor in the Italian Alps He has a wealthy girlfriend, Monica Scotti, and expensive tastes To be able to live in style he has a plan to lay hands on the 250,000 dollars that represent the gains

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old

Gold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him After saving a homeless mans life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his

Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies

An industrialist tries to corrupt the deputy mayor by exploiting his oratory vanity, to prevent the panoramic view of his villa from being disfigured by a hospice

A millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents

Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years

A deeply in debt gambler sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy

In post war Italy, a working class mans bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work He and his son set out to find it

When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed Frisky

A young playboy inherits 13 antique chairs and decides to sell them for money then finds out where the real money is

Julia, a fashion designer harboring a secret, spends ten days of passion in the Alps with Valerio, a race car driver, in what will be their last vacation together

In 1806 Naples, King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is frowned upon by the people, especially the comic theatrical Pulcinella, who continually delivers hard sermons, earning a reputation among the Neapolitans

September 1943 in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles