The lucky pants

A small-time hustler makes a deal with a notorious gangster to whom he owes money: marry his teenage son to the latter's daughter. However, the young...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny,...

Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Callimaco, a wealthy young man, falls madly in love with Lucrezia, the beautiful young wife of a much older man, Messer Nicia. But Lucrezia is honest...

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows...

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life...

Rigadin encounters nothing but trouble on Friday the 13th.

After years of maneuvering the canal-ridden, superstitious city of Venice, Italy, a scrappy black cat named Nero begins to question whether...

A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.

A chain of bizarrely perfect and utterly extraordinary coincidences will convince a superstitious civil engineer that his impoverished long-lost...