Antonio is jealous of his wife Clara and follows her everywhere; one day he sees her walking with a man on the street. He immediately becomes convinced that they went together to the movies (instead t...
“Una partita a scacchi” is a small jewel of a suspense and psychological tension. Almost all the story takes place inside a train wagon, yet the rhythm and tension never go down. Also thanks to th...
A man, who has just become rich, hires a footman who should instruct him on how to behave with ladies. In fact, he has an appointment with a lady who has a daughter of marriageable age. Not feeling su...
A young army officer goes to visit her sister in the countryside. Perhaps due to the idleness of the country life, he begins to woo the governess of her sister’s daughter. Flattered, the girl soon f...
Robinet has lost his head for an artist of the music hall. He tries to join her in the dressing room after the performance - but it is too late: she has already gone home. So he decides to reach the ...
Gradeniga, the Doge's widow, lives withdrawn in a palace on the river of the Brenta. In the sunset of an autumn evening she looks, in the grip of a mortal anguish, beyond the gate, waiting for the shi...
A bourgeois gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored by his comments, falls asleep and right after, with the help of the warmth of the living room, he falls asleep...
Two young and pretty neighbours fall in love, at the same time, with Cretinetti, and for him they go crazy: they fight a duel with swords and guns, and desperate they even want to commit suicide by th...