Cops and Robbers (1951)

Poverty and Nobility

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

The Band of Honest Men

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Bread and Chocolate

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Totó in color

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

The Conspirators

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.

Totò cerca casa

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

Graduation Party

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Neapolitan Turk

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

Sexo e a Metrópole

The Dollars Are Coming!

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...

Over the Rainbow

After a tragic road accident, broadcast journalist Jin-soo finds he's lost pockets of his memories, including that of a woman he once loved. Nagged by unrelenting feelings of loss, Jin sets out to find her. His quest lands him face to face with Yeon-hee, a woman who's trying to forget a man she once loved. What begins as a journey of sadness turns into a triumphant story of love for the pair.

Filumena Marturano

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.

Brancaleone at the Crusades

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Bread, Love and Dreams

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

An Almost Ordinary Summer

Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.