A group of misfits, including a knight, a Jewish man, and a blacksmith, embark on a hilarious adventure to save their town from plague and pirates.
Big Deal on Madonna Street is a lighthearted crime drama about a group of small-time crooks who plan an attempted burglary. The film explores their various misadventures and the challenges they face as they try to carry out the heist. Filled with humor and social commentary, Big Deal on Madonna Street combines elements of neorealism with satirical parody.
The Traffic Policeman is a comedy movie set in a city where poverty is rampant. The story follows a man who works as a traffic policeman and his hilarious encounters with the people in the city.
A crew of aging gangsters in Milan, Italy plan and execute a successful heist on a bank vault using a clever scheme. The story follows their recruitment of a petty thief, their encounters with the police and the carabinieri, and their hilarious escapades throughout the city.
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the command and the ship to the winner of a challenge among his men. Unexpectedly Consuelo wins. The same night Tigre is killed, William is charged with the killing and is sentenced to death. But before the sentence could be executed the Spaniards of Grand Duke Inigo arrives. Consuelo escapes, however this is only the first move of Indigo's wife to get to the pirates treasure.
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
In 'What Are the Clouds?', a puppetry comedy film, audiences are taken on a whimsical journey exploring the beauty and mysteries of the sky. With elements of drama, fantasy, and singing, the film is based on the play 'Shakespeare's Othello'. The film showcases the stage, violence, and the captivated audience looking at the sky, as well as the mesmerizing clouds.
Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom.
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.