Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon after seduced by the very consul who drives her away after his daughter loses her life due to Ersilia's distraction. Because of economic difficulties she falls lower and lower until she meets Ludovico with whom she can perhaps hope for sincere love again. The consul's return, however, will lead her toward a tragic ending.

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.

1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a wonderful young Ethiopian. He also wound her when he shot to a wild animal, and later kills her to avoid further pain. When he finally reaches the hospital, he realizes he gets probably leprosy. Trying to escape from Ethiopia Silvestri will kill again. But surprises aren't still over.

(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.

在影片《母狗》中费雷里描绘了一个女人如何接近一位连环画画家。画家生活在一个孤岛上，正在画无产阶级的第一个英雄斯巴达克思的连环画。这个女人由于能在这个男人面前扮演一个俯首贴耳的角色而得到满足。她给自己套上了一个狗项圈，跪在他面前，舔他的手。费雷里不是以此来美化大男子主义，而更多的是为了谴责资本主义社会男女之间的病态关系；但这里也应责备费雷里的两重性、他的玩世不恭和过多的滑稽效果。也许那个生活在孤岛上无所作为的画家正是费雷里自己的写照，因为费雷里不满他的生活和工作：“我试图在这个制度里拍摄影片，而且是拍摄我想拍的影片。我本应该是幸福的；但我并不幸福，因为我相信我的影片是没有用的。我从来不抱幻想，我知道只有少数人看我的影片，而且即使看了，又会起什么作用？这些影片只会使人不安。但这是不够的，而且也没有什么意思。"

当年轻迷人的利娜·斯特罗皮亚尼（Lina Stroppiani）和她的家人一样是一个小偷，她和两名同伙试图偷走保罗的出租车时，她不可能知道这会产生深远的后果。

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

在二十世纪，人类变得疯狂，为了娱乐创立了一项行动：大追捕。由电脑随机抽取两个人，一个人做追捕者，另一个做受害者，追捕者了解受害者，而受害者却不知道谁是追捕者。这一次，卡罗琳作为追捕者准备要破她的记录，而马尔切罗则是受害者，他们要在罗马展开一场对抗，在全世界的摄影机的镜头前...

耶稣被钉死在十字架上三年后，有传言说他将死而复生，并领导群众推翻罗马统治者。为了安稳民心，罗马政府派出一位名叫塔罗斯的官员去寻找耶稣的遗体以反驳传言。结果塔罗斯在调查中频频受阻，不仅有人故意不想让他知道真相，他自己也陷入了关于信仰的矛盾之中……

维斯康提那段讲罗密·施奈德扮演的美丽少妇设计向丈夫报仇，冒充他情妇，让他花钱才能得到她；德西卡的那段讲一个胆小的人赢得一个奖，奖品是跟一个女孩的约会；莫尼切里那段在很多海外版本中均被删除，其风格比较偏传统喜剧，较低调，容易消失在同行的阴影里；但最为出彩的还是费里尼的那段，名为《安东尼博士的诱惑》，讲一个波霸美女从海报上“活”过来，取笑一个道貌岸然的禁欲男子。
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四位重量级意大利导演用各自的手法捕捉薄伽丘的精神，以罗马为舞台呈现大型世像图。虽然只是部短片，但费里尼却以轻松嘲讽但不失沉重的语气来讲述这个揭露上层阶级虚伪道德观的故事。安东尼博士是个值得探讨的人物，他面对价值崩溃、道德沦丧感到无能为力，妄图以虚伪的面具来掩盖自己内心的欲望，但当巨大的女郎形象从广告中走出与他同乐时，他的本性终于显露。费里尼用梦幻与现实交错的手法同时制造出荒诞与沉重两种调子，极具表现力，在本片中给人印象最为深刻。

描述由奥斯卡影后莎莉麦克琳饰演的风尘女郎，即使屡次遇人不淑，依然对浪漫的爱情抱持梦想。鲍伯佛西惊人的歌舞编排、舞者高难度的表演，不仅将通俗的故事展露新貌，更是日后天王天后的MV和演唱会的参考经典。

奥古斯特带领的三个骗子化装成传教士到处行骗，屡屡得手。一次他在街头偶遇自己天真烂漫的女儿，心里不禁有所顿悟，但却被人当场认出是骗子，并在女儿面前给人逮送到警局。出狱后的奥古斯特重操旧业，但在为筹集女儿学费的一次行骗中，他想独吞财物而被同伙痛殴，最终死在山崖边。

《侩子手》是西班牙写实主义大师贝尔兰加的巅峰之作，以辛辣的笔调描写了一个连苍蝇都不敢打的青年人，为生活所迫竟当上刽子手的故事。影片虽在如今的各大西班牙经典影片榜单上名列前茅，但由于推出时正处于弗朗哥黑暗时期，长时间没有得到人们的认可。

这部电影带有浓厚的新现实主义风格，基本上与费里尼中后期的神采飞扬不一样，采用了纪实手法来讲述一个爱情故事，结构简单，多用长镜头。片中的内容与战后意大利贫瘠的社会现实相吻合。本片也是费里尼首次与自己的妻子玛西娜合作。乡下姑娘莉莉加入一家剧团，她的表演相当成功，不但在观众中大受欢迎，剧团团长契克也暗中爱上了她。由于契克常常醋意大发，剧团惹上了许多麻烦，最终不得不解散收场……

伊凡带新婚妻子旺达到罗马度蜜月，这是历史上最缺乏浪漫色彩的蜜月之行，严格死板的安排便是与亲人朋友见面，会见主教等。但年轻貌美的旺达痴迷于一个源于浮华表面的卡通英雄，于是临阵逃婚，开始寻找她那神往的白酋长……