A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments.

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in control—and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, the Neapolitan civilians spontaneously rise up en masse against their occupants—and overwhelming odds, driving them from the city after four days of fighting.

The love affair between Andrea, laborer from the italian northern area called Bassa Lombarda and apulian single mother, Rosaria, is grafted on the background of the inconveniences of poor commuters who must go to work in Milan by train.

A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.

A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.

The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Italian magazine shows.

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.