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- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClara CalamaiMassimo GirottiDhia CristianiGino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
- DirectorRobert VernayStarsPierre Richard-WillmMichèle AlfaAimé ClariondEdmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsCaterina BorattoCristiano CristianiPeppino De FilippoPeppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAlberto TavazziRoswita SchmidtAttilio DottesioDuring WWII, a priest finds himself trapped in Ukraine in a battle between the Soviet Union and Italy while trying to save a wounded soldier.
- DirectorLouis DaquinStarsAssia NorisJules BerryGabrielle DorziatGilles Mauvoisin, the only descendant of his late uncle Octave, inherits his entire fortune. Uncle Octave was poisoned with arsenic and suspicion focused immediately on his widow, Colette Mauvoisin. But Gilles has doubts about her guilt and conducts his own investigation.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsAldo FabriziAnna MagnaniAnita DuranteRoman coachman Totò doesn't want his coach to be replaced by cars, and he definitely does not want his beloved daughter Nannarella go out with taxicab driver Roberto. But when he gets into trouble, of all people it is Roberto who rescues him.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsAlberto RabagliatiMaría MercaderAnna MagnaniCount Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of life with how much money he wants and then be a guinea pig for a new drug (and maybe die).
- DirectorJean de LimurStarsFioretta DolfiMassimo GirottiDora MenichelliOne of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.
- DirectorGiuseppe FatigatiStarsAlida ValliBeniamino GigliCarlo RomanoMovie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsFernand GraveyAssia NorisJean WeberOut of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsMassimo GirottiAmedeo NazzariVivi GioiTommaso Rossi, a young Italian goes to America to visit his elder brother Amedeo who has a business in the construction industry. He is discovered as a talented boxer after getting into a fight with a champion in a restaurant and flooring him. However his elder brother's business is wrecked and he is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Forced to fight in order to raise enough money to bail his brother, Tommaso is then told by a dying Amedeo to return to Italy as the American dream holds nothing for Italian American immigrants.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsLaura SolariFosco GiachettiCamillo PilottoA sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.
- DirectorNunzio MalasommaStarsLaura RediCarlo NinchiVera Carmi
- DirectorGiorgio PastinaStarsEnzo BiliottiClara CalamaiRubi DalmaFilm version of Luigi Pirandello's stage play Enrico IV that downplays Pirandello's patented absurdism in favor of a comparatively straightforward narrative. The title character is not the 11th-century German king of the same name, but a looney modern-day nobleman who only thinks that he's Henry IV.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsVittorio De SicaMaría MercaderPaolo StoppaA penniless young man who lives by expedients is instructed by his director to accompany the daughter of an accountant of the company he owns. The young man takes the opportunity to pretend to be very rich in the naive girl and takes her to a luxury establishment, creating, thanks to her inventor's imagination, an authentic dreamlike atmosphere.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsGino BechiIrasema DiliánGuglielmo BarnabòA famous baritone tells about the adventure he had taken the day before, when he lost his train and found himself wandering the countryside with a girl who had left the jealous boyfriend on the train.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsLída BaarováEduardo De FilippoPeppino De FilippoCarmine, butler and pygmalion to a starlet, gets herself a rich husband and gets rid of a broke suitor of hers.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsTotòVera CarmiEnrico GloriThe explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsAlida ValliGino CerviAntonio CentaSeduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
- DirectorAldo VerganoStarsAmedeo NazzariMariella LottiMario FerrariAndrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsChiaretta GelliArmando FalconiDina GalliA precocious girl tries to prevent the marriage of her older sister to a womanizer and stirs up trouble in the boarding school she is sent to.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsFerruccio TagliaviniVera CarmiLuisa RossiRather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners. This allows him to know and fall in love with a beautiful blind girl.
- DirectorUmberto ScarpelliRenato SimoniStarsRuggero RuggeriMercedes BrignoneCarla CandianiAfter the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was sent into exile on the small island of Saint Helena. Surrounded by the few who were faithful to him, he spent his last years between an unyielding pride and the discouragement of freedom denied.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsVera CarmiLeonardo CorteseGuglielmo BarnabòAccording to a Registry Office slip, a man discovers from that his bride-to-be is already married... So he sets out to find out who is this other man.
- DirectorMarco ElterStarsCarlo TamberlaniCaterina BorattoNelly CorradiWhen the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsMassimo SeratoMarina BertiAndrea ChecchiLiterary adaptation: A young professor fallen into poverty and an orphan girl who has become his fiancee find work in the mansion of an elderly count, whose son rapes the young woman, forcing the two lovers to separate for a time.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsMaria CebotariRossano BrazziRenato CialenteA beautiful singer, Maria Malibran, is forced to turn to the stage after her husband takes to gambling, and goes to Paris where she falls in love with a famous violinist. When her money-seeking husband reappears, the couple go to London, where they find happiness. A composer falls in love with Maria but when his affections are unrequited, he becomes broken, takes to drinking and dies.
- DirectorEsodo PratelliStarsGino CerviAntonio CentaAntonio GandusioTwo brothers become pilots of the Regia Aeronautica.
- DirectorGiulio AntamoroFederico SinibaldiEttore GianniniStarsEmma GramaticaFilippo ScelzoBeatrice ManciniForerunner of the popular 50s Matarazzo melodrama: An elderly countess, her son, and an illegitimate child he has with a lower class woman all meet tragic fates, while the scandalized woman retreats into a convent.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsCarla Del PoggioAdriana BenettiRubi DalmaThe two young Carla and Giulia, out of the college, dream of being able to marry with their respective lovers, the first with Carletto, with whom she was engaged as a young girl, and the second with Fabrizio.
- DirectorNunzio MalasommaStarsCarlo NinchiDedi MontanoGiuditta RissoneWhen a rich man loses his wealth and is overcome with debts, his daughter scrambles to make a good marriage, creating a love pentangle in the process.
- DirectorMarco ElterStarsVittorio SanipoliLuisa FeridaMemo Benassi
- DirectorAntonio LeonviolaStarsElena ZareschiUgo SassoMarcello GiordaThe story of Saint Rita of Cascia,a rare example of mother and wife. Rita,daughter of a couple of poor peasants, is promised to God.One day, she saves a killer from death.He wants to marry her because of her kindness and she accepts with the intent of saving his soul.She becomes mother of two good sons but,with the death of their father,they want a revenge and they die.Rita,alone in the world,is called by God.She spent the rest of her life as a good nun.
- DirectorEsodo PratelliStarsLída BaarováLuisa FeridaLauro Gazzolo
- DirectorAndrea Di RobilantStarsMaria DenisCamillo PilottoAlanova
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsMarina BertiCarlo NinchiAndrea ChecchiA military doctor, in the late 1800s, had to leave for California with his young assistant, to treat smallpox.
- DirectorIvo PerilliStarsAnneliese UhligMaría MercaderRenato Bossi
- DirectorRomolo MarcelliniStarsDorothea WieckOtello TosoMaurizio D'AncoraAn Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsLaura SolariNino BesozziSergio TofanoA husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsRossano BrazziMaría MercaderCesare FantoniAn Italian lieutenant is wounded on the Eastern Front, in Russia. While he is on a hospital train, the man remembers the love story that made him a father. During the journey an air alert forces the train to stop in the lieutenant's hometown, where his old love and the son he's never met still live.
- DirectorMarco ElterStarsVittorio SanipoliLoredanaOsvaldo Valenti
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsVera CarmiCesare FantoniAntonio GandusioAlberto, son of a rich engineer, falls in love with Luisa, a ruthless manicurist who is only after his money. His parents offer him a holiday in Venice because they hope he will forget her. Alberto however leaves for Venice with Luisa, who has asked a friend of hers to take her place at the beauty parlour. Alberto's parents go there and mistake Teresa for Luisa. A series of misunderstandings ensues...
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsJules BerryGino CerviAndrea ChecchiEmma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
- DirectorGennaro RighelliStarsArmando FalconiAndrea ChecchiAdriana BenettiXIXth century. Ferdinand II is the wise King of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. His adviser is in love with a young woman whose father died in exile. She no longer believes in the monarchy. Her political beliefs lead to many arguments with her lover.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsPaola BarbaraGustav DiesslLuisella BeghiA decadent noblewoman, whose stranded husband has dilapidated their whole fortune on gambling, tries to keep her daughter in school while hiding their state of poverty from her, by leading a double life as an exotic dancer.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsEduardo De FilippoPeppino De FilippoTitina De FilippoFormer batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
- DirectorMario BafficoStarsAmedeo Trilli
- DirectorLeo MenardiStarsLuisella BeghiRoberto VillaCesco Baseggio
- DirectorFlavio CalzavaraStarsDoris DurantiGustav DiesslOlga SolbelliOne night in Florence, the well-known Livorno painter Tommaso Bardelli saves a young girl, Marta, by a beat of a brute in an alley. The man takes her to Livorno in his uncle's villa in Calafuria and falls in love with her.
- DirectorPier Luigi FaraldoStarsTullio CarminatiErzsi SimorGermana PaolieriBetrayed by a colleague to whom he was sentimentally involved the famous actor Gino Grazioli has long since abandoned the stage. Now he is ready for a comeback and instantly falls in love with a young gifted actress.