Primo amore
Oct 05, 1941An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Nicola Maldacea
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Fermo con le mani!
Mar 06, 1937In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
Comedy
La Comédie du bonheur
Dec 23, 1940Le banquier Jourdain, philanthrope invétéré, dilapide sa fortune pour semer le bonheur autour de lui. Sa famille, inquiète de cette prodigalité, s'arrange pour le faire interner dans un asile d'aliénés. Mais Jourdain réussit à s'échapper et se réfugie dans une pension de famille...
Napoli che non muore
Jan 18, 1939Comedy
Ultima giovinezza
Aug 28, 1939Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can quickly forget the past. Slowly his feeling turns into a love that Marcella seems to reciprocate. However, when Cesare realizes that the girl feels only gratitude for him and is in love with a younger man, he loses control. Blinded by jealousy, he plans to kill Marcella's lover but, in the face of the girl's vulgarity and indifference, he realizes that he has been teased and turns his anger towards her.
Drama
Il feroce saladino
Sep 23, 1937Comedy
L'albero di Adamo
Jan 19, 1936
Giorno di nozze
Sep 28, 1942Les Bonotti, famille romaine très modeste, envoient leur fille, Mariella, dans un collège de grand luxe et lui cachent leur pauvreté. Elle ne tarde pas à se fiancer au fils d'un riche financier. Les Bonotti vont alors tout faire pour ne pas dévoiler leurs origines.
Comedy
Per uomini soli
Dec 16, 1938Comedy
Vietato ai minorenni
Mar 02, 1944Comedy
I figli del marchese Lucera
Jan 01, 1939Comedy
Una signora dell'ovest
Feb 09, 1942Western
Il socio invisibile
Dec 01, 1939Drama
Nina, non far la stupida
Jan 01, 1938Comedy
Ho perduto mio marito
Mar 31, 1937Comedy
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
Nov 28, 1944Comedy
Villa da vendere
Nov 24, 1941Comedy
Arriviamo noi!
Feb 27, 1942Comedy
Napoli d'altri tempi
Jan 01, 1938Comedy
Una volta alla settimana
Jun 27, 1942
La fortuna viene dal cielo
Mar 26, 1942The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
Romance
La Tosca
Jan 31, 1941Rome, juin 1800. Alors que l’issue de la bataille de Marengo est encore incertaine le comte Palmieri est exécuté sur la terrasse du château Saint-Ange.
Un autre jacobin, Angelotti, est libéré par ses compagnons mais, ne pouvant passer les portes de la ville, il se réfugie, avec l’aide sa soeur, la marquise Attavanti, dans la chapelle familiale à Sant’Andrea della Valle où Mario Cavaradossi est en train de peindre une Madone en s’inspirant des traits de la marquise qui vient régulièrement prier dans l’église.
Cette ressemblance suscite la jalousie de son amante Tosca, célèbre cantatrice qui doit chanter le soir même lors d’un concert devant la reine et vient voir le peintre entre deux répétitions avec le Maestro Paisiello.
Cavaradossi parvient à cacher Angelotti dans sa villa hors les murs mais Scarpia, chef de la police secrète, espère utiliser la jalousie de Tosca pour retrouver les traces du fugitif.
Drama
Casanova farebbe così!
Dec 05, 1942A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
Comedy
Carmen
Aug 08, 1944La dramatique histoire d'amour de Carmen, une bohémienne, et de Don José, le brigadier de dragons. Par amour pour la belle, Don José devient déserteur. Mais celle-ci le quitte pour le séduisant toréador Lucas. Déchiré par sa jalousie, le soldat commet l'irréparable en tuant Carmen.
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
Le Père Lebonnard
Mar 29, 1939Antonio Lebonnard est un honnête horloger italien, qui mène une vie tranquille entre sa femme, son fils et sa fille. Cette dernière aime un modeste médecin débutant et trouve en son père un allié pour le mariage. Le fils lui s'y oppose, espérant s'élever socialement par un mariage dans la noblesse. Pour le discréditer aux yeux de sa sœur, il lui révèle que son amoureux est né de façon illégitime.
Le due madri
Dec 01, 1938
Re di danari
Sep 01, 1936Comedy
30 secondi d'amore
Oct 24, 1936A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
Romance
Ettore Fieramosca
Dec 28, 1938ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
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