Aldo De Benedetti

Comedy of manners based on a play by Aldo de Bendetti. An unhappy princess married to a man only interested in breeding race horses persuades her bodyguard, Diego to act as her lover to arouse her husband's jealousy. Problems arise when Diego's girlfriend arrives. (ftvdb)

Loves and adventures of a young chauffeur. (bfi)

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow? (imdb)

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. (imdb)

Adventures of two G.I.s sightseeing in Rome and their pursuit of an attractive school teacher. (bfi)

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, the husband of Luisa. Alberto offers himself to help Paolo in solving his problem, but when the two men arrive at home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. What to do? The two men try a series of way to help Luisa.. (imdb)

The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country. (imdb)

Based loosely on fact, stars Silvana Pampanini as a sexy nightclub singer with loftier aspirations. Posing as the wife of a judge, the singer manages to bed a high-ranking government official (Carlo Dapporto). As a result, the nonplused judge (Luigi Pavese) is given all sorts of promotions and special perks. When he finds out about the girl's subterfuge, his first reaction is stark, raw terror: Wait till his real wife (Ave Ninchi) discovers what's going on! (allmovie.com)

Tradita takes place in 1915, at a time when Austria, Germany and Italy were supposed to be allied. In Austria however the Italian community was a house divided. Some of them refused to fight for Franz-Joseph and wanted to support France and England instead. In this story, two Italian brothers are pitted against each other not only for the reasons expressed above but also because they love the same girl, Anna, the niece of an Austrian lieutenant.

A comedy of errors about marriage and infidelity. Vittorio De Sica's debut film.

Early Italian pirate adventure.

Alberto Verani is a Paraguayan farmer married with the beautiful Marina, but the marriage is not going well, since he is an incorrigible womanizer. When a woman is about to travel, Alberto order flowers for the Countess Arduini, with a note signed "Mystery", to try to seduce her. But Marina meets the present and believed to be from a secret admirer, trying to hide her husband's fact. Intrigued, Alberto begins to send roses to his own wife in order to test their loyalty.

After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella (Tania Weber) pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo (May Britt). Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva (Ettore Manni), Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners. (Letterboxd)

A meek bank teller gets a harsh lesson on how the world goes when he gets wrongfully accused of a huge robbery. All his friends and family turn their backs on him, until they realize he might have kept the money. When everyone thinks you're the bad guy, you may just as well play the part.

Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and trouble...

After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead.

Two strangers meet at an apartment they both want to rent. After a little fighting they decide to solve the matter with a crazy idea.

A former prostitute and a Polish infant are the only survivors of a train crash. Despite their mutual love, the woman's past comes back to haunt her. (Mubi)

When a young woman is mistakenly imprisoned for her sister's crime of abandoning her own child, her husband who works abroad decides to nullify their marriage. (Mubi)

A seemingly perfect family begins to fall apart when the draw of infidelity appears.

Cousins Giacomo and Roberto are in love with Susanna. When Roberto and Susanna announce their engagement, Giacomo vows to ruin their happiness. (mubi)

Lucas is an orphan who lives with his mother Mary, a worker in a factory in Barcelona. One day they meet Captain Andres. (imdb)

Andrea, the new doctor in the country, falls in love with Lisa, daughter of engineer Carani, wealthy landowner of the area. Lisa has a younger sister, Anna, and a brother, Georgio, who lives in the city. The dissipated life that George leads, as well as his cynical and unscrupulous behavior, has an impact on the health of Carani. One day, Georgio reveals to Anna that he discovered that his sister Lisa is not of their blood and is determined to cause a scandal... (KG)

The film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). (Hal Erickson)

Life Begins Anew (Italian: La vita ricomincia) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Eduardo De Filippo. It was the second most popular Italian film during 1945-46 after Roberto Rossellini's Paisan.

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and his wife meet his new chief.

Housemaid Maria has been engaged to Berto for 15 years. Berto doesn't have a steady job so he's waiting for his Uncle Matteo's death, when he will come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife, then for an actor and his wife on the verge of divorce, and last for Rafael, who wants to marry her. At last Uncle Matteo dies.