Elena Varzi

Dans un petit village sicilien, la fermeture d’une mine de soufre provoque la faim et le chômage. Ciccio propose à quelques villageois de les guider vers la France en toute illégalité. Parmi eux, Saro, une veuve avec trois enfants, Vanni, un bandit fugitif, et Barbara, sa fiancée, décident de partir. Mais lorsque le groupe arrive à Rome, Ciccio tente de s’enfuir avec leur argent.

Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.

André is a loving and attentive husband, but when he agrees to plead his enamored brother's case with student Françoise Massard, he in turn becomes infatuated with the beautiful woman, who is perpetually in search of true love through a series of hazardous romantic relationships. When Françoise learns that the legitimate couple are expecting a child.

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.

Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

Beppe, sicilien, est amoureux de deux femmes. Il se marie avec toutes les deux; c'est là que les ennuis commencent...

Toni, mafieux de Calabre, est envoyé a Paris pour exécuter un contrat. Son contact est le Vieux, personnage étrange, mis au rebus par la famille mais qui rend encore quelques services. Il communique a Toni les informations nécessaires a la bonne exécution de son travail. Il s'en acquitte avec un calme parfait. C'est alors qu'il fait la connaissance de Marie, jeune journaliste perturbée par le suicide de sa meilleure amie. Une mystérieuse relation se noue aussitôt entre eux. Tout dérape quand Toni abat un chef de clan avec lequel il devait seulement négocier.

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau