Isa Barzizza

Totò Al Giro D'Italia is a black & white film in the Italian Neorealism genre about the 1948 edition of the Giro d'Italia, in which Professor Totò sells his soul to the devil in order to win the love of the bella Doriana. She agrees to marry him only if he can win the national bicycle race, calculating that this is an impossibility, but one stage after another he defeats all great cycling champions of that time (Coppi, Bartali, Schotte, Kubler, Bobet, Magni, et al).

Totò, one of Italy's all-time great comedians, stars as a Neopolitan petty criminal named Don Felice... (imdb)

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him. (imdb)

Farcical version of the Figaro story.

Escaping the clutches of despotic wife, an angry little man takes on the identity of a famous American detective and is forced to investigate a famous criminal nicknamed "Bluebeard". (negozioitalia)

Toto' a colori was the first Italian movie to be shot with a colour film, but the sensitivity was very low (6 asa!) so the actors had to act under a very strong lighting and high temperature. (imdb)

In Paris, in 1865, in an orphan-asylun everyone is an orphan. The girls, of course, the headmistress, the dog and the two watchmen, Gasparre and Battista: each of them is an orphan. Gasparre and Battista decide to look for an orphan's father so she can marry. They go to a chiromancer to seek advise and Gasparre finds out he is the son of a count... (imdb)

In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena.... (imdb)

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)

Series of music-hall sketches etc. (bfi)

Una famiglia allargata, come ce ne sono tante oggigiorno, nella quale una coppia di genitori attende per le feste l'arrivo della figlia e del suo misterioso fidanzato; c'è anche un uomo che per la prima volta conosce i figli della sua compagna che faranno di tutto per cacciarlo. Poi ancora una vedova inconsolabile, un fratellastro irrisolto, una bellissima casa, la neve... (comingsoon.it)

Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose. One day a young graduate, Walter, turns up in search of work, and though he is almost identical to the rival in his dreams, Fernando reluctantly hires him.

A comedy about a young lawyer of a prestigious firm but with a catastrophic private life. (imdb)

Sara, 14, is the only daughter of well-off parents. She is often alone at home as her parents are kept very busy with their jobs. Sara is obsessed by her weight and is prepared to do anything to become thinner. She uses all kinds of strategies to avoid eating and when she becomes bulimic she swallows all she finds within her reach and makes herself vomit afterwards. (imdb)

Lino Settembre and his wife Chicca lead a tranquil married life without any serious problems. They are satisfied with their careers. He's the sports editor at the Messenger and she's a professor of medieval languages at the Universita' Gregoriana. (imdb)