Franco Interlenghi

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding (imdb)

A sensitive character study of five young men trapped in a small town on the Adriatic. (imdb)

Three stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode a university student is involved in smuggling cigarettes. In the English episode a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs, and tries to sell his story to the press. (imdb)

Miranda is a beautiful woman who runs a local tavern. After the loss of her husband in WWII, she tries out a variety of men. Over the course of four seasons she meets four men: in Winter the rich old council; in Spring there is the young chauffeur; in Summer the American G.I.; and in Autumn, the servant of the Tavern. Now she has to make a decision, who would be the best lover as well husband.

Captain Ferrio, a dedicated police officer, is ready to go to the very limits of the law in his struggle against the growing world of crime.

Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. (imdb)

The husbands in question rather casually enter into marriage, never intending true fidelity to their spouses. When they realize that they're committed for life, our immature heroes return to their home town for one last fling. In the course of their final hours of bachelorhood, they come to the sobering conclusion that their carefree youth is not only past, it's already long past. Somewhat reminiscent of Fellini's I Vitelloni. (allmovie.com)

Sunday, august 7th. Various people from Rome, poor and rich ones, spend their Sunday at the beach in Ostia.

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. (imdb)

Epic tale of Garibaldi's quest for Italian reunification.

A movie about student life in 2000s.

Two young unenployed men, Scintillone and Ruggeretto, pick up a couple of prostitutes. They hope their company will help them sell some rifles they have stolen. On their way they meet Bella Bella, who also aids them in selling the goods...

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. (imdb)

Set in the weeks just prior to Christmas, the story focuses on the Yuletide preparations made by five different families. The humor derives from the communication gap between the elder family members and their bewildering offspring. The powerhouse cast is headed by Vittorio de Sica and Marcello Mastrioanni. (movies.nytimes.com)

The film is about some youths' love stories: Franco and his hairdresser girlfriend Adriana, Otello another hairdresser who is hopelessly in love with Adriana. The youths usually meet in a restaurant whose owner, Ines, seduces Franco making Adriana very jealous. In turn the girl decides to accept Otello's courting. (imdb)

Tyrannised by his stingy wife Teresa, Antonio organises a perfect plan to have a good time for at least one night. With the complicity of the town barber, he stages a fake kidnapping and manages to get the ransom money from his wife. The deception is soon uncovered, not only by Teresa but also by Iganzio, the bandit whom Antonio pretended to be kidnapped by, who decides to kidnap Antonio for real. (wordcat)

The action takes place in Naples at the turn of the century and shows the different methods used by the police and the District Attorney to discover the real authors of a double murder. (bfi)

Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a prostitute. She's desperate but in the end she asks her husband for help. She has learned to love him in the meantime. (imdb)

Epic film about the founding of Rumania by the Roman General Trajan. (bfi)

Mid-Century Loves (Italian: Amori di mezzo secolo) is a 1954 Italian anthology historical melodrama film consisting of five segments directed by Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari, Roberto Rossellini and Antonio Pietrangeli. (wikipedia.org)

The film presents Jesus' childhood and his relationship with Joseph until the age of 12. It seems that, as yet small, Jesus felt his divine side and had visions of what he was destined for.

Criminals rob a French mining town.

Italia anthology movie.