Beatrice Cenci
Sep 09, 1941Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Drama
Carlo Duse
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Action
Camicie rosse
Aug 15, 1952The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
History
Totò sceicco
Nov 30, 1950Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
Comedy
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Jan 02, 1954An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.
Crime
Haine Amour et Trahison
Sep 04, 1954L'action se passe durant la guerre, en 1915, en Italie, avant que celle-ci n'entre en guerre contre l'Autriche. Les deux frères Alberti sont séparés par leurs engagements politiques : Franco pour la Triple-Entente et Eugenio pour la Triplice. Cette opposition se double bientôt d'une rivalité amoureuse.
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Giarabub
May 08, 1942
Devant lui tremblait tout Rome
Oct 02, 1946La jalousie d'Ada fait découvrir involontairement à la Gestapo que Marco, le ténor avec lequel il joue Tosca au théâtre, cache un soldat anglais dans le jardin de sa villa. Curieux "film opéra" qui met à jour les personnages et les situations de Puccini, une réinterprétation populaire des thèmes de la résistance anti-nazie.
War
Ginevra degli Almieri
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Drama
Pazzo d'amore
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Le siège de l'Alcazar
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Il conte di Bréchard
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Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo
Mar 28, 1952D'âpres rivalités de clocher font bouillonner le petit village italien de Brescello. Peppone, un communiste, vient de triompher aux élections municipales et son succès est dur à accepter pour Don Camillo, sympathique curé de choc, qui, dans l'ombre du presbytère, s'entretient presque amicalement avec Dieu.
Comedy
Una signora dell'ovest
Feb 09, 1942Western
Tempesta sul golfo
Mar 13, 1943Drama
Il signore a doppio petto
Mar 13, 1941Comedy
100 di questi giorni
Jan 01, 1933Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
Comedy
Musica in piazza
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La valle del diavolo
Apr 06, 1943Drama
Il cavaliere di Kruja
Jan 10, 1940
Villa da vendere
Nov 24, 1941Comedy
Puccini
Apr 29, 1953Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
Drama
Don César de Bazan
Oct 04, 1942A Barcelone, en 1650, le comte Don Cesare di Bazan tente de déjouer, avec l'aide d'une comédienne, un complot monté contre le roi par l'ambassadeur de France.
Comedy
Scipion l'Africain
Aug 04, 1937Au cours du IIIème siècle avec Jésus Christ, Rome et Carthage se livrent combat, sur les deux continents. Le proconsul romain Publius Cornelius Scipion parvient à repousser les attaques ennemies en Espagne. D'une ambition sans commune mesure, "Scipion l'Africain" demande de l'aide à Rome afin de combattre les carthaginois sur leurs propres terres dans le but de mettre fin à leur expansion. Mais pour atteindre les rives de l'autre continent, il devra affronter Syphax, un roi allié d'Hannibal.
War
Retroscena
Nov 26, 1939Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
Comedy
Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa
Dec 16, 1939Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Adventure
Les deux orphelines
Dec 16, 1954Deux orphelines, Henriette et sa sœur adoptive Louise arrivent à Paris en 1784, afin que Louise, aveugle, s'y fasse opérer. Mais Henriette est kidnappée sur les ordres du marquis de Presles qui tente de la séduire, tandis que Louise tombe entre les mains d'une mégère, la mère Frochard qui l'oblige à mendier. Henriette est délivrée par le chevalier de Vaudray qui souhaite l'épouser. Mais l'oncle de Vaudray, hostile à cette union envoie Henriette à la Salpêtrière et Vaudray à la Bastille...
Drama
Il padrone sono me
Nov 17, 1955In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
Drama
Romola
Dec 06, 1924In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Drama
Il bravo di Venezia
Sep 17, 1941Drama
Montevergine
Jan 10, 1939
La Grande Bagarre de Don Camillo
Sep 29, 1955Les élections approchent. Pour Peppone, qui rêve d'être député, c'est une période cruciale. Mais Don Camillo ne l'entend pas de cette oreille et va tout faire pour perturber les desseins de pouvoir du maire communiste. Leur rivalité devient alors plus féroce que jamais.
Comedy
Giuseppe Verdi
Aug 01, 1938The 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
Bengasi
Jan 10, 1942The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Drama
Inviati speciali
Apr 27, 1943
Traversata nera
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Drama
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Dec 03, 1940
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May 06, 1941
Messaline
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Drama
Il feroce saladino
Sep 23, 1937Comedy
Ettore Fieramosca
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History
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.
History
Fanfulla da Lodi
Feb 17, 1940Drama
Canto, ma sottovoce...
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Messaline
Dec 04, 1951Drama
Taxi di notte
Sep 09, 1950A 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 finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Comedy
Alina
Aug 06, 1950A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
Drama
Traversata nera
Aug 12, 1939"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
Drama
La forza del destino
Jan 24, 1950Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
Drama
Fanfulla da Lodi
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Fanfulla da Lodi
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