Titina De Filippo

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her. (imdb)

The life of a poor quarter of Naples from 1940 to 1950. (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)

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 fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce... (imdb)

Camillo Gorini breaks off the engagement with Isabella, niece to the baroness Holz, the manageress of the insurance company "Baviera", where he works. One night he goes to a club with his colleague Bernardo Cesarotti and they are involved in a strange adventure by a dancer, Odette. She belongs to a gang whose bosses are at the moment imprisoned, and Camillo and Bernardo are taken to jail to take their place... (European Film Festival)

Adaptation of a Paola Riccora theatre piece for the screen, which features the three De Filippo siblings and a young Alda Vialli. Giovannino loses his job and is taken in by the family of his wealthy nephew. Whilst reduced to doing menial takes for the family, he is increasingly blamed for everything untoward. Ultimately, after one family development another family member is finally obliged to come forward with the truth.

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it. (imdb)

Former 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.

Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead. (imdb)

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.