Set in the weeks just prior to Christmas, the story focuses on the Yuletide preparations made by five different families. The humor derives from the communication gap between the elder family members and their bewildering offspring. The powerhouse cast is headed by Vittorio de Sica and Marcello Mastrioanni.

Luca (Marcello Mastroianni) is a man who runs a mill and he is married to Carmela (Sophia Loren), a beautiful wife, set in Naples in 1860. But his wife's beauty catches the eye of Don Teofilo the Governor (Vittorio De Sica), who sets about to have Carmela. He has Luca arrested on trumped up charges, and then tries seduce Carmella. She resists, so he tells her he can free Luca, but there are strings attached.

Set in a futuristic vision of the late 1980's, Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. Once at the Vatican, he is immediately given an audience with the Pope, who elevates him to Cardinal Priest. The world is on the brink of war due to a Chinese-Soviet feud made worse by a famine caused by trade restrictions brought against China by the U.S. When the Pontiff suddenly dies, Lakota's genuine character and unique life experience move the College of Cardinals to elect him as the new Pope. But Pope Kiril I must now deal with his own self-doubt, the struggle of his friend Fr. Telemond who is under scrutiny for his beliefs, and find a solution to the crisis in China.

(Includes spoilers) VILLA BORGHESE is a film consisting of six vignettes (cut to five in its U.S. release) that are all set in the Roman park that bears that name. All the episodes take place within one day. The first episode, taking place early in the day, is called "Servant Girls and Soldiers" and is a trifle about a couple of guys trying to put the makes on a couple of young girls. The second piece is called "The Greek Letter Pi" and is a poignant little anecdote about a schoolgirl (Anna Maria Ferrrero) who is urged by her classmates to approach their Greek professor (François Perrier), so that they can photograph them kissing and perhaps blackmail the prof for a passing grade. It turns out the professor has a sad story to tell the girl…that he is going blind. The tearful girl cannot go though with the plan. The third episode is the funniest and probably the best in the film. It's called "Incident at Villa Borghese" and features tour-guide Vittorio De Sica as an incorrigible over-cologned woman-chaser who comes between Giovanna Ralli and her furiously jealous boyfriend Maurizio Arena. The dramatics that ensue among the three…and others…is absolutely hilarious. In one delicious moment, De Sica sits in the car with the boy on one side of him, screaming at the girl, and the girl's breasts on the other side, pressed against De Sica's face as he barely conceals his lust. In "The Marriage Arranger" Eduardo De Filippo is the father of a girl he is trying to marry off. The discussions between the relatives center on rather selfish interest…money, dowry. Then the increasingly ill-at-ease girl is revealed to have a handicap, involving her foot, and the young suitor comes to the emotionally distraught girl's side and, through simple humanity and kindness, saves the day in a way the crude relatives were not capable of doing. Of all the relationships we witness in the film, this is the only one that seems to have a future. "The Lovers" is a bittersweet episode about a man breaking up his affair with a married woman…as the woman's small children play in the park with their nurse and call out to their adulterous mommy. It is nicely acted by two great stars of the French cinema, Micheline Presle and Gérard Philippe. The final racy episode, "Beauty Contest," is a Felliniesque dissertation about two rival Roman street–prostitutes, who as they are about to be rounded up by the police, wind up at a Miss Cinema beauty contest taking place in the park. The younger of the women (Eloisa Cianni) eludes the police by going off with an older man in his car. The other and older one (Franca Valeri) is not so lucky and the episode and the film end as she is driven off in a police vehicle. It is late at night.
The movie was released in the United States in 1957, inexplicably, in a French-language version, which didn't match the content, despite the presence of some French performers. It was retitled IT HAPPENED IN THE PARK. Furthermore, the first decent-enough episode was shorn, also inexplicably, because the film was already a short one. The direction by Gianni Franciolini is subtle and finely-tuned throughout, and the ensemble of actors in the production makes, of itself, a worthwhile experience of the movie, which should not remain as forgotten as it is.

Vittorio De Sica (billed simply as "De Sica") is the virile young hero of Grandi Magazzini. The title translates as "Department Store," which is where the first half of the story transpires. 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. Once on the slopes, Norris falls in love with truck-driver DeSica, who convinces himself that this extremely well-dressed young lady is a woman of great wealth. Upon discovering that Norris is a fraud, DeSica is crestfallen, but Love Conquers All before the final reel.

在海边度假的罗马皇帝尼禄正在准备一场盛大的演出，但他的母亲阿格里皮娜却不识相的带着日耳曼军团赶来，强迫尼禄带兵去征服不列颠。表演前夕，各种阴谋和谋杀层出不穷

杰佩托是一个孤苦伶仃的老木匠，妻子去世后，他一直渴望能有一个儿子陪伴在自己身边。一天，杰佩托用从邻居那里借来的一段胡桃木作了一个木偶，谁知木偶却变成了一个小男孩，并声称自己的名字叫皮诺曹。自从有了皮诺曹这个儿子，杰佩托对他关爱备至，甚至变卖了唯一的御寒袄子给皮诺曹缝制了一身新衣服，并送他去上学。
然而，淘气的皮诺曹为了逃学竟随曼加波克的魔术团离家出走。离开家的日子里，皮诺曹经历了许多稀奇古怪的事情，也经历了各种危险。为此，把他变成小男孩的蓝仙女还两次把他变回了木偶。在经历了各种危险和挫折后，皮诺曹渐渐地懂得了父亲杰佩托的一片苦心。最终在掉进鲨鱼口中后，成功救出了早在出海寻找自己时就掉入鲨鱼腹中的爸爸杰佩托。

1959 film by Mario Soldati

一群笨拙的美国游客到访欧洲，笑话幽默事接连发生……

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Marshall Antonio Carotenuto comes back to native Sorrento to take care of the local fire brigade. But since Sofia, a very nice fishmonger, occupies his native house Antonio share another home with Donna Violante, secretly fall in love with him. Sofia accepts to marry Antonio almost as a joke to make Nicolino, a traffic policeman, getting jealous. The chances for the two deloused sweethearts aren't over as it could appear.

（烂番茄网站简介）Domani e Troppo Tardi is the first of two Leonide Moguy films dealing with the travails of postwar Italian life; the second was Domani e un altro Giorno. The story concerns the efforts to provide a proper sex education for youngsters. Progressive schoolteachers Landi (Vittorio de Sica) and Anna (Lois Maxwell) have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella (Anna Maria Pierangeli) and Franco (Gino Leuri). The two kids are enamored of one another, and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom...with devastating results. Eighteen-year-old Anna Maria Pierangeli, who makes her film debut in Domani e Troppo Tardi and also appeared in Domani e un altro Giorno, later changed her professional name to Pier Angeli. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

1924年4月6日，意大利举行大选。在选举之前和选举过程中，法西斯党公然践踏公民权利，破坏选举规则，采用各种强暴行为和无耻的弄虚作假手段，使法西斯党获得65％的选票。1924年5月30日新议会举行会议，墨索里尼提出对选举中非法行为的指控不列入议事日程，要求全体议员一致通过他的提议。意大利统一社会党总书记、议会中反对派领袖贾科莫·马泰奥蒂即席发表了讲话，用大量事实详细披露了法西斯党在选举中施用暴力和欺骗手段的卑劣行径。他讲道：“政府多数派虽然名义上获得了400万张选票，但我们知道，这是由于可怕的暴行的结果。”他还匿名写了一本书，记录法西斯党执政一年多的大宗暴行。墨索里尼决定铲除马泰奥蒂，他对下属说：“像马泰奥蒂这样的对手就得拔出手枪对付。”于是他的心腹干将菲里普·马里纳利和切萨雷·罗西下令杀害马泰奥蒂。职业杀手杜米尼和普塔托于1924年6月10日在家中将马泰奥蒂绑架，然后拖到守候在门口的汽车里加以杀害，又把尸体运到乡下埋掉。事情败露之后，全国人民极为愤慨。议会中所有反对派议员150人退出议会组成阿文廷派，宣布除非把案件查清并证明与政府无关，否则他们决不返回议会。并要求解散法西斯民团，停止其暴行。法西斯党也乱作一团，陷入瘫痪状态。为了摆脱危机，墨索里尼一方面千方百计否认和掩饰他与案件的关联，同时不得不强迫其亲信戴悟诺辞去警察总监和民团总司令之职，免去马里纳利和罗西的职务并予以逮捕，授意另外4名法西斯分子辞去大臣职务，又把凶手逮捕入狱。对反对派墨索里尼则软硬兼施，扬言用武力镇压阿文廷派，又利用自由党害怕社会党执政的心理支持自由党，既震慑又分化了阿文廷派。于是阿文廷派议员陆续返回议会，1924年11月11日。议会通过了对政府的信任案，马泰奥蒂事件宣告了结。

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.