Manon Lescaut
Feb 02, 1940Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.
Drama
Oreste Fares
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Primo amore
Oct 05, 1941An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Mare
May 19, 1940Drama
Napoli che non muore
Jan 18, 1939Comedy
Il trattato scomparso
Jan 01, 1933Mystery
Un americano in vacanza
Sep 07, 1946Romance
L'ultima carrozzella
Dec 01, 1943Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.
Comedy
Le siège de l'Alcazar
Jan 02, 1940La résistance des 2000 personnes retranchées dans l'Alcazar de Tolède au début de la guerre civile espagnole contre les troupes républicaines et l'assassinat du fils du colonel Moscardo par les Rouges
War
Oltre l'amore
Jan 10, 1940
Una signora dell'ovest
Feb 09, 1942Western
Cavalleria
Oct 23, 1936Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
Drama
Passaporto rosso
Nov 13, 1935Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
Drama
Mamma
Dec 16, 1941Drama
Corte d'Assise
Jan 31, 1931During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.
Drama
Il mercante di schiave
Mar 16, 1942Adventure
Vertigine
Mar 10, 1942The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
Drama
Le fiacre 13
Feb 28, 1948La machiavélique Claudia, pour assurer sa fortune auprès de Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, supprime le frère aîné de son amant et subtilise son enfant. Le gosse est adopté par un cocher de fiacre, et, plus tard, devenu secrétaire du ministre de la Justice, découvre le pot aux roses, fait punir les méchants, récompense les bons et épouse la fille d'un autre innocent, injustement accusé par Claudia.
Drama
Le Roi s'amuse
Apr 01, 1941Bouffon du roi, Triboulet à une fille, Blanche, que le roi fait enlever avec la complicité su pauvre Triboulet qui ignore qu'il s'agit de sa propre fille. Poue se venger, Triboulet attire le souverain dans un guet-apens, mais Blanche prend sa place...
Drama
Patto col diavolo
Jan 11, 1950The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
Drama
Il cappello da prete
Nov 10, 1944The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
Crime
Miliardi, che follia!
Sep 03, 1942After his plane makes an emergency landing, a kidnapped millionaire assumes the identity of a poor man.
Comedy
Pensaci, Giacomino!
Jan 01, 1936Comedy
La fanciulla di Portici
Oct 27, 1940During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
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