Annibale Ninchi

삼류 신문의 사교계 담당 신문기자인 마르첼로는 사치스럽고 방탕한 생활을 하던 중 우연히 한결같이 반복되는 일상사에 진력을 내는 마달레나라는 여인을 만나 사귀게 된다. 마달레나는 마르첼로에게 고혹적인 분위기를 지닌 매춘부, 아르디아나를 소개시켜준다. 스스로도 주체할 수 없는 자신의 방탕한 생활에 회의를 느끼던 그는 어느 날 절친한 친구 스타이너가 자살했다는 소식을 듣고 더욱 실의에 빠지면서 삶의 가치와 의미에 대해 회의를 품게된다.

영화 역사상 가장 위대한 영화 중 하나로 손꼽히는 페데리코 펠리니 감독의 이 영화는 한 남자의 예술적 위기를 영화계의 거대한 서사시로 승화시키는 작품이다. 영화감독 구이도는 어느 날 공중에서 떨어지는 꿈을 꾼다. 정신적, 육체적으로 지쳐있던 그는 요양을 핑계로 온천에 가지만 그곳에서도 생활과 일을 벗어날 수 없는데...

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.

Sergio of Tula goes to Dubno to free Princess Mascia, who is prisoner of Queen Jassa, but he is seduced by the latter, who stirs his ambition by putting her army at his service to take King Stephen's throne.

Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.The biggest surprise is sixties starlet Daliah Lavi as a simple-minded nymphomaniac girl who is murdered on the beach. The story is essentially a whodunit: in Martine Carol's house, there are many people (too many people actually) and they all have a reason to get rid of her.

While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns.

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...