Pina Piovani

During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bianca Doria

A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paolo Stoppa

In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erminio Macario

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Berti

Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws...

Genre: History

Cast: Raf Vallone

Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Giacomo Rondinella

Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alida Valli

Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action...

Genre: Action

Cast: Maria Montez

A Neapolitan tailor, Nennella (Leda Gys), in love with a painter, who has a slender woman named Paquita (Pina Piovani) as a lover, decides to become,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leda Gys

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tito Gobbi

Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terence Hill

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tino Scotti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Calamai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luisella Beghi

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Turi Pandolfini

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Annette Bach

A young man in love with a girl whose father--his employer--does not approve of him, disguises himself as a hunchback to get into the father's good...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peppino De Filippo

Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Cortese

The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ettore Manni

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giorgio De Lullo

Venice Film Festival 1942

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sergio Tofano

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruggero Ruggeri

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Riccardo Billi

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carlo Campanini

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Beniamino Gigli

Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tino Scotti

Venice Film Festival 1942

Genre: Drama

Cast: Assia Noris

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Pola

An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.

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Cast: Douglass Montgomery