In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

Conciërge Antonio Buonocore besluit met zijn vrienden Lo Turco en Cardone vals geld te drukken. Het gaat verbazingwekkend goed, maar het daadwerkelijk in roulatie brengen van het valse geld blijkt moeilijker dan ze dachten.

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Vincent van Gogh is de typische miskende, getormenteerde artiest. Zijn obsessie voor schilderen en zijn psychische problemen zorgen voor een ongelukkig leven vol mislukkingen. Hij krijgt enig respect van zijn collega-schilders, in het bijzonder Paul Gauguin, maar kan niet met hen overweg.

Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun.

Antonio gaat naar West-Berlijn en ontmoet Giuseppe. Maar Antonio lijkt op Canarinis, een gezochte oorlogsmisdadiger. Dus de dochter van de crimineel betaalt Antonio om zich voor hem uit te geven.

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.

A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.

Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce vita' and wastes the money entrusted to him for his mission. When Peppino is sent to to find out what happened, he lets himself be trapped by the gentle grip of 'la dolce vita'

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.

Schrijver Felice en fotograaf Pasquale leven samen in armoede en brengen de tijd vooral door met het bekritiseren van elkaars werk. Hun vooraanstaande vriend Eugenio haalt hen over om hem te vergezellen en zich voor te doen als aristocraten wanneer hij Gemma ten huwelijk vraagt. Dit is vragen om problemen en die komen er dan ook.

Stoney en Dave vinden de holbewoner Link die jaren vastgevroren heeft gezeten. Ze bevrijden hem, en showen hem de stad. Link weet maar langzaam te wennen aan het leven in de 20e eeuw, maar hij heeft geen problemen met het indruk maken op de meiden. Hij helpt Stoney en Dave de coolheid te vinden waarnaar ze op zoek waren.

Baron Ferdinando Cefalo is doodmoe van zijn aandachttrekkende vrouw, en wordt verliefd op zijn nichtje die de zomer in hetzelfde huis als hij doorbrengt. Helaas is scheiden in Italië nog verboden dus zal Ferdinando iets anders moeten bedenken, zijn vrouw vermoorden bijvoorbeeld.