Virgilio Riento

A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.

Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him...

A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many...

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition,...

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better...

In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for...

Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which...

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and...

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is...

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a...

Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street...

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six...

Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited,...

Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to...

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young...

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.

Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a young woman dive in the water from a...

An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light...

A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself...

Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The...

A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and...

The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.

Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When...

A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good...

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa...

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain...

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to...

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.

Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.

Two women, Tina, who is a pizza chef, and Lisa, who runs a shop, can't stand each other, but they have a nephew and a daughter respectively, who love...

An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him. After her death, the boy grows up in an orphanage and later joins the homeless in...

Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.

An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.

A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.

An Italian comedy released in 1941.

Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a...

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also...

The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the...

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition...

Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with...

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's...

This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill

Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of...

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his...

Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger...

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".

Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way...

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are...

A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima...

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan....

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on...

Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely...

The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four...

Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in...

Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and...

A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.

A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is...