Jone Frigerio

Le petit Pricò ne comprend pas les problèmes qui déchirent ses parents : sa mère est partie rejoindre son amant, et son père semble beaucoup souffrir de cette situation.

Alberto Menichetti vit avec sa tante et sa vieille bonne à Rome. Il travaille dans l’entreprise de Vedova De Ritis, une séduisante veuve qui est secrètement amoureuse de lui. Mais Alberto est attiré par Marcella, une jeune femme du village.

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.

Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.

In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.