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- A woman of humble origins who marries a nobleman in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, the unstoppable force of their love hits an immovable object: his grandmother.
- Lumbardy, Italy, seventeenth century. Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
- Nicoletta, married to the engineer Barbano, finds love in the form of pianist Bruno Traldi.
- A widowed engineer finds solace in the love of a young woman, with whom he marries. However, everything reminds him of his first wife, the marriage goes into crisis and the new wife must use all her sweetness to finally be able to enter the heart of her husband.
- A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
- Literary adaptation: A young professor fallen into poverty and an orphan girl who has become his fiancee find work in the mansion of an elderly count, whose son rapes the young woman, forcing the two lovers to separate for a time.
- The quiet days of two elderly spinster sisters are changed for good with the unexpected arrival of their nephew.
- A Parisian engineer has a fling with a show girl who later breaks with him when she learns he is married and has a family.
- A modern, (as of 1942), retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Lilia Silvi and Amedeo Nazzari.
- Poggioli's masterpiece, a precursor to Neorealism, was shot on location in Genoa and tells the story of a 'humiliated and mistreated' maid, who sacrifices herself to save a child. The mainstream flirts with anti-bourgeoisie sentiments. "The dance hall scene is strikingly beautiful". (G. Buttafava)
- The Baron of Santafusca, an aging playboy, has squandered his fortune is about to get arrested for unpaid debts. He decides to lure a greedy priest to his crumbling ancestral estate outside of Naples and murder him for his money.
- A story of complex emotions regarding a beautiful young girl torn between her handsome fiancée and a kind wealthy man who both admire her.
- A Marquis lets an innocent man take the blame for the murder of one of his foremen , who had entered into a marriage in name only with the former peasant girlfriend of the Marquis.
- Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
- Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.
- A young man, lover of a mature upper-class lady, falls in love with a girl from whom he hides the fact that he is already engaged. In order to win her over, he hires two actors to play the part of his parents.