Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Róma, a negyvenes évek második felében. Benjamin Lomacchio (Toto) miután elvesztették lakásukat a második világháborúban a bombázások alatt, családjával átmenetileg egy iskolába költöznek. Az iskola szeptemberben újra indul, ezért a városi tanács kilakoltatással fenyegeti őket...

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

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.

Tino Orsini, a fiatal és tehetséges artista Amerikából érkezik a párizsi Bouglione cirkuszba. Édesapja egykori partnerét, a világhírű trapézművészt, Mike Ribble-t keresi, hogy megtanulja tőle az egyik legnehezebb mutatványt, a triplaszaltót. A balesete óta megkeseredett, bánatát alkoholba fojtó Mike azonban már csak sátormesterként dolgozik. Először durván elutasítja a fiú kérését, ám amikor felismeri benne méltó utódját, mégis tanítani kezdi. A szenzációsnak ígérkező szám híre gyorsan terjed a cirkusz világában. Hamarosan megjelenik Párizsban az ismert amerikai impresszárió, John Ringling North is. Mike és Tino keményen dolgozik a számon, ám nem sokkal a cél elérése előtt közéjük áll a gyönyörű és ambíciózus Lola.

Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.

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Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.

Lecsúszott figurák a munka kivételével mindent kitalálnak, hogy pénzhez jussanak. Így jutnak el a nagy buli ötletéhez: betörni és kifosztani a közeli Zálogházat. Óriási szervezéssel bejutnak az éppen akkor üres szomszédos lakásba, hogy onnan áttörve a falat bejussanak a páncélszekrényhez. Némi logisztikai hiba következtében azonban a lakáson belül a konyha falát törik át. Mi mást tehetnének : megesznek egy tál otthagyott csicseriborsót és Capanelle azért magával visz egy vekkert.

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.

A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.

Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.

The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.