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- A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
- The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
- Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
- 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 employer's car.
- The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
- Count Campana, an elegant young poet, acquires an estate near Rome, mainly because he loves Maria, the beautiful wife of the tenant farmer Mariano, and feels sorry for her, as she is obviously mistreated by Mariano. But Campana's love goes to Princess Sora, the estate's light-hearted neighbor, who turns him on his head.
- Loose Pirandello adaptation: A young lady hides from her fiance that she is caring for a baby half brother left behind by her late mother.The fiance, like her an aspiring musical performer, has indicated he doesn't want a child yet.
- "Loyalty of Love" - In 1821 Count Federico Confalonieri was arrested by the Austrians for conspiracy and sentenced to the halter. His wife, Teresa Casati , with great difficulty manages to obtain the grace from the emperor of Austria and the death penalty is changed to life imprisonment to be served in the Spielberg where he will remain until 1835.
- Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves. When he later attempts to rejoin her, disaster results.
- A story about the comic adventures of a group of summertime travelers.
- Part of the long running series of peplum adventures featuring the strong man character Maciste..In this one, he has an underwater fight with a shark.
- Marquis Fusaro is a Napoletan nobleman and a chairman of the charity organization which helps the poor. But unbeknownst to his rich friends he himself is also completely broke and has to sell all the valuables from his apartment in order to survive. One day a beggar asks Marquis to safekeep all the money he made through begging in 30 years for him, but when Marquis' friends arrive for a visit they see the beggar's money on Marquis' table and think this money is Marquis' donation to their charity organization and take it. Marquis now has to find a quick way to get 7.500 liras and return them to the beggar.
- When his wife storms out of a dinner planned in honor of his American boss (because their dog is not allowed to be at the table) an engineer pretends that his secretary is the missus.
- Psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme.
- Film set in the 1910s, in an Italian school. A male school teacher falls in love with the female gymnastics teacher at the school. She is attracted to him, but their students attempt to sabotage the prospective romance.
- Clotilde, wife of lawyer Giulio has just returned from an extramarital affair that ended badly: the only bond she still has with her husband is the hope of finding their daughter. The house is bursting with gossip and rumors. One day comes news about their daughter.
- Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.
- When young Adriana gives birth to her daughter, she understands that her baby's father won't come back to her; he is, in fact, a playboy, Diego. Years pass by and Adriana is now happy with her new job in a hair salon but, when one day Diego comes in the salon, he sees Adriana and he tries to speak with her but she tries to hide herself. He visits her another night but she refuses him; in the meantime, a colleague of Adriana, the accountant Mario Fabbrini.....
- In the Le Mans railway station, Oscar Ribouis is waiting for the connection that will lead him to Rennes, his home town. Feeling a bit thirsty, he decides to have a quick one at the refreshing room. And feeling a bit lonely he invites a rail worker to have a drink in his company and tells him about his stay in Paris. But after a couple of glasses of wine, Oscar misses his connection. Worse, he goes out, walks on the tracks and what does he do but get his foot stuck in switches! About to be run over by a train he is saved at the last moment by his new companion, the railway-man. Saved from the train alright but not from a heap of coal he falls into! Now blacker than an African Negro, Oscar, once again helped by his companion, manages to get on a night train for Rennes. But, still drunk like a fish, he wakes all the passengers of the sleeping car and scares them stiff: they all believe they are being attacked by a black bandit! Opting for their lives rather than their money, the "victims" relieve themselves of their jewels and hand them over to the "Negro", unaware of what is actually going on. The following morning, Oscar is back home in Rennes, welcomed by his wife and two kids. In the meantime, Zambah, a poor Black man has been arrested for the sleeping car robbery. When Oscar reads the news in the paper and soon after discovers a necklace in his pocket, he realizes that this is a miscarriage of justice and goes to the police station to clarify the situation, Moulinet, the examining judge in charge of the case, has him sent to the same cell as Zambah.
- A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.
- Italian pioneers in turn of the century South America: the father helps build a railway.The daughter reconnects with a disillusioned doctor she had met on the boat coming in. The story follows their grandson and into WWI.
- A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
- During the traditional Siena celebration of the Palio, jockeys from different neighborhoods compete in the culminating horse race in the town square and vie with each other for the local women.
- During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
- Three little children live in an orphanage which is next to the school where little Lauretta is a pupil. The three befriend her and one night they climb the wall separating the orphanage from the school because they want to see fireworks. One of the boys is however wounded by a firecracker and at his sickbed his nanny and Lauretta's father meet. The two both with unfortunate love stories behind them, learn to love each other.
- A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.
- Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
- When the baritone of a wandering opera troupe quits and the soprano never shows, a teacher and a girl pupil step in to put on the expected village show. Complications of jealousy from the teacher's wife and the girl's sweetheart.
- A husband struggles throughout the film to prove to his jealous wife that he has always been faithful to her.
- In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends (Mario and Pietro) fight for the love of the same girl (Gina). Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
- A smuggler is in love with a girl who is involved with another man. In a rage of jealousy the smuggler pins a murder on the girls lover.
- Comedy: One night a middle aged Don Juan finds the jewelry worn by his current paramour has been stolen while they are at a club. Later it somehow lands up in the hands of the man's suspicious wife.
- Italy's first flying film showed the strides that land had made in aviation, preparing for military action under Fascism.The 3 comrades of the plot have their differences but work together and 2 of them at least find romance back on earth.
- A young aristocrat, planning to spend more time in town, returns to his farmland to sell out to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who worked for him.
- This featurette is a burlesque of the Moliere play, The Doctor In Spite of Himself.