Maria Jacobini

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Villa Falconieri
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Villa Falconieri

Sep 20, 1928
A young count rents a villa near Rome to be near a woman he's courting. While there, he strikes up a friendship with a young woman living with a violent husband.
Drama
Maman Colibri
4

Maman Colibri

Oct 23, 1929
Irène de Rysbergue n'a pas trouvé dans le mariage la tendresse souhaitée. Son mari est indifférent. Richard, son fils aîné, est un garçon renfermé. Seul le plus jeune témoigne de la gentillesse à sa mère. Irène fait la connaissance d'un ami de ses fils, Georges de Chambry, bel officier de spahis. Ils se plaisent et la passion les égarent. Surprise par Richard, une scène violente éclate. Révoltée, Irène abandonne les siens et fuit avec Georges en Afrique.
Drama
Cainà
5.5

Cainà

Jun 02, 1922
Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.
Adventure
Amore di schiava
1

Amore di schiava

Mar 26, 1910
Madly in love with her master Marcellus -- a love that is unrequited -- ancient Roman slave Syrra scorns the genuine affection of Affrus, a fellow slave.
Drama
Amore di torero
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Amore di torero

Apr 06, 1910
A toreor is happily married to a young and pretty lady, whose charms have aroused the passion of another toreor, who forces his attentions upon her. She is compelled, by threats, to write a note to her husband, saying she does not love him. The husband enters, and reads the note. In spite of protestations of innocence, he refuses to believe her and tells her to leave his home for ever. Shortly after, a great bull-fight takes place, in which the guilty toreor is wounded. Repenting of the misery he has caused, he sends for the husband and confesses all, and the latter, repentant of his jealous conduct, seeks out his wife, and happiness is restored.
Drama
La danza del fuoco
1

La danza del fuoco

Apr 26, 1943
A decadent noblewoman, whose stranded husband has dilapidated their whole fortune on gambling, tries to keep her daughter in school while hiding their state of poverty from her, by leading a double life as an exotic dancer.
Drama
Giuseppe Verdi
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Giuseppe Verdi

Aug 01, 1938
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Music
Der Film im Film
7.5

Der Film im Film

Jun 26, 1924
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
Documentary
Живой труп
5.2

Живой труп

Feb 14, 1929
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha.
Drama
La donna della montagna
5.2
An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
Drama
Addio giovinezza!
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Addio giovinezza!

Feb 02, 1918
Two young men move to the city in order to study. One of them gets entangled in a love triangle.
Comedy
L'onestà del peccato
5

L'onestà del peccato

Dec 01, 1918
A businessman marries Maria, the daughter of the rich professor, not for love but for personal gain. He betrays and humiliates her but she hides his despicable character from both her father and society at large and takes comfort in the company of a ship’s lieutenant. They fall in love but agree to interrupt their impossible relationship. Pregnant with her lover’s child, Maria decides to follow her heart and join him at sea but a series of dramatic events awaits them.
Drama
Cainà
5.5

Cainà

Jun 02, 1922
Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.
Adventure