Virgilio Riento

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Tina Pica

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica