Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.

In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.

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 person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.

Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.

Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin beskriver den kærlighedsaffære, der langsomt spirede mellem den italienske kaptajn Antonio Corelli, en uimodståelig og charmerende officer med en lidenskab for at spille på mandolin, og Pelagia, en stolt og ambitiøs ung kvinde, der bor på den græske ø Cephalion under 2. Verdenskrig. Da Corelli og hans kompagni ankommer for at besætte øen, ser de frem til opholdet som en ren græsk ferie med vin, kvinder og sang. Til at begynde med afskyr Pelagia og de andre øboere de uindbudte gæster, men italienernes charme og lidenskab nedbryder de kulturelle forskelle, og Pelagia begynder at se Corelli, som den mand, han virkelig er: fuld af livsglæde, kærlighed til musikken og kærlighed til Pelagia selv.

Den europæiske playboy Nicky Ferrante sejler over Atlanten for at gifte sig med en rig amerikansk arving. Men på luksuslineren møder han den tidligere natklubsangerinde Terry McKay. Selv om de begge er forlovet til anden side, forelsker de sig. De aftaler at mødes igen et halvt år senere på toppen af Empire State Building for at se, om deres kærlighed stadig er stærk. Men Terry dukker ikke op ...