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- Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
- A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- A flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.
- A cynical gunfighter, aided by an elderly prophet, becomes involved in a feud with a bandit gang trying to obtain a stagecoach made of solid gold.
- The story of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the German occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindszenty was arrested, tortured, and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Soviet occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.
- Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups ?
- Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a rather compromising situation, Hubert resorts to a subterfuge, claiming that he has come to see the Duchess to seek support to be elected at the Institut de France, whose chairman is precisely her husband. The latter takes him at his word and Hubert becomes... a member of the French Academy! Which just shows that everything leads to everything.
- In a fit of jealousy, store clerk Assia Norris walks out on her boyfriend and heads for a vacation in the Alps, but not before "borrowing" a high-priced ski wardrobe.
- The wife of a shipping supervisor is smitten by a tall handsome sailor who works for him.
- A wardrobe mistress at a Vienna theatre wins a competition, receiving as her prize a luxury tour round Italy. On the train she meets an impoverished young Italian who pretends to be a prince.
- A young wife, thinking that her husband no longer loves her, invents a suitor to make him jealous. With the collaboration of several merchants she sends flowers, jewelry and even love letters to herself. All to the total indifference of her husband.
- An old comedian is obliged to work as a servant. He meets a young woman who dreams of theatre career. Old man decides to set to stage a comic piece, Il Feroce Saladino. The young woman may see her dreams come true.
- Backstage melodrama: The past of a star tenor's wife catches up with her when the unsavory father of her illegitimate child returns.The jealous wife of the father murders him.
- A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
- On January 1st. 1900 an hussar captain writes three farewell letters to his colonel, his fiancée and to the judge. The letters reach their receivers before he can consummate his plans, and all of them quickly react.
- The sole girl pupil of a school for pickpockets is caught in the act stealing from a well dressed Count but he hires her to steal the watch of an ambassador who he thinks is having an affair with the countess.
- An artist finds, when he comes to the city, that his real mother, not the peasant woman who brought him up , is a former actress there.
- Alicia who feels frustrated at not being able to have a baby doesn't doubt to murder her own sister when she is asked for the son she gave her.
- The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa, having nevertheless ordained a young Ethiopian priest, who will continue his mission.
- Albert Durandal is unable to keep a job for more than a few days. The reason: he hums while working, which invariably irritates his superiors. He is not hired as a singer for all that, as no music producer is prepared to bet on him. At the moment he is as free as a (singing) bird and accepts to take care of Josette, the little daughter of Jeanne, his neighbor, who is sick and has to go to a sanitarium. One day, while walking down the street, he helps an old man who has an attack. The latter happens to be an influential millionaire. And with a heart of gold into the bargain : he helps Albert to make it in the singing career. And as Jeanne has recovered, he can marry her and adopt Josette.
- An industrialist benefactor offers a young couple three wishes.He wants to be an inventor, she a singer, but things don't turn out exactly as each of them hope.
- Darma, Tremal Naik's daughter is kidnapped by the thugs and secluded in a temple in the jungle. The religious sect want her to become the priestess of the goddess Kali. Sandokan will set her free, and Surama the legitimate heiress to the throne of Lahore.
- Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement...
- In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
- At the beginning of the Twentieth century, a young employee of a Naples shop dreams of becoming a famous singer.
- The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding.But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
- In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
- An eccentric professor keeps his eight daughters locked in a villa to shield them away from an outside world he deems corrupt and dangerous.
- Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the day they met. But this wonderful friendship is endangered by their falling in love with the same young woman, Juana, the young owner of a hacienda. Worse, following a misunderstanding, generated by the belle's scheming uncle, Pedro de Alvarado, the two men fall out with each other. But when Tom is trapped under the surface of the burning ocean, Nick finally comes to his rescue.
- A tenor marries a ballerina but his impresario causes their marriage to crumble.
- Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family.
- Twenty years after the beginning of their collaboration, Felicita Colombo and Count Scotti continue to successfully deal with the delicatessen. The count has now abandoned all arrogance and works willingly.
- A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his daughter's hand. After 20 yeas he has become a wealthy financier in America; he returns to his homeland and starts to track down the girl of his dreams.
- "Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
- This first Italian-made feature film released in the United States following WWII relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
- In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.