Italia Marchesini

After getting a woman (the Virtue) pregnant, a school teacher (the Man) tries to make her copulate with her rude husband, a ship Captain who's always traveling (the Beast). Based upon a novel by Luigi Pirandello.

Francisco, a Brazilian son of Italian immigrants, is saved from drowning by Lucia, a Neapolitan girl and falls in love with her. Francisco has to go back to Brasil but promises Lucia he will come back and marry her. Incredibly enough however Lucia's father is in prison because he killed Francisco's uncle in a row twenty years before and the wedding seems doomed to fall through... (imdb)

Famous Italian writer Moravia is told a story set during WW2: Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara. The poor girl is however ruthlessly pursued by Greta the officer's German girlfriend... (imdb)

Film adaptation of a three act comedy by Eduardo De Filippo. Ferdinando Quagliuolo takes over the management of a Lotto agency after his father dies. Despite his terrible luck, he still plays obsessively. When one of his employees, Mario Bertolini, gets lucky, he soon becomes fiercely envious, not knowing that Mario has been courting his daughter behind his back all along.

Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life.