Achille Majeroni

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Gramatica

The singer Cécile Hervey celebrates great achievements, while her sister Elda lives quietly with her aunt Claire on land. Elda is engaged to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luigi Cimara

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with...

Genre: War

Cast: Camillo Pilotto

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Filippo Romito

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Miranda

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isa Miranda

Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fosco Giachetti

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franco Interlenghi

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Philipe

Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angelo Musco

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peppino De Filippo

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariella Lotti

Young Rosalia marries the painter Corrado Palmieri, but gets disowned by her family, opposed to the marriage. Then during a fight, Corrado kills his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlo Ninchi

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: María Félix

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Cebotari

A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sergio Tofano

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alida Valli

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milly

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Merlini

Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Germana Paolieri

Venice Film Festival 1936

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Gramatica

Annna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Giuseppe Porelli

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osvaldo Valenti

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leonardo Cortese

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonora Ruffo

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Lamoureux

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudia Cardinale

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vera Carmi

Two siblings lose their parents amidst turmoil in revolutionary France and are adopted by a peasant family. Once grown up, the older brother enlists...

Genre: History

Cast: Amleto Novelli