Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.

Two middle-aged friends, a surgeon and an undertaker, enthusiastically share a passion: women. When a beautiful stripper reach the village, their lives get upside down.

The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up, giving rise to a mysterious investigation.

Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love with her since then, he welcomes with joy the invitation to follow her to Rome, convinced that the young woman wants to marry him.

A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.

To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.