Andrea Checchi

Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendary treasure. He is accompanied by his daughter...

Genre: History

Cast: Peter Lupus

Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophia Loren

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Barbara Steele

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peter van Eyck

During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

By a twist of fate, the photogenic Milanese shop assistant, Clara Manni, gets the leading role in Italian movie producer Gianni Franchi's romantic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucía Bosè

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franco Interlenghi

A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mario Carotenuto

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Cameron Mitchell

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Blain

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Calamai

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alida Valli

Genre: Romance

Cast: Valentina Cortese

A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Miranda

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Cast: Doris Duranti

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Akiko Wakabayashi

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Belinda Lee

A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Odile Versois

A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chiaretta Gelli

Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In...

Genre: War

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA...

Genre: History

Cast: Francisco Rabal

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur Kennedy

A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Denis

An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alessandra Panaro

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franco Interlenghi

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time:...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea". Gradually she falls in love with him, but he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Checchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alida Valli

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carlo Campanini

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Myriam Bru

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marina Berti

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

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

Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doris Duranti

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivi Gioi

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring...

Genre: War

Cast: Raf Vallone

Venice Film Festival 1939

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's treasure. Some are intent on the valuables, while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dawn Addams

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?)...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gianfranco Giachetti

A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gino Cervi

Episodic comedy about the corrupting influence of money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Enrico Maria Salerno

In a sea port, where he has landed after a long voyage, a sailor meets a girl. To overcome her reluctance, he gives up on leaving again and works as...

Genre:

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

In post-war Italy, some pilots of the Air Force, despite the difficulties in which they are forced to operate, manage to form an acrobatic squadron....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dawn Addams

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylva Koscina

Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.

Genre: War

Cast: Marina Berti

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peppino De Filippo

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the...

Genre: War

Cast: Lilli Palmer

A thriller with Jack Palance as a nazi doctor hiding after the war. While riding on a train, he is recognized by former prisoners.

Genre:

Cast: Jack Palance

A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Harrison

Ten episodes, one for each of the Ten Commandments. Lost film.

Genre:

Cast: Rossano Brazzi

Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Frank Latimore

3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giorgio Albertazzi

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Cast: Renato Rascel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luisella Beghi

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World...

Genre: War

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Manfredi

After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adriano Celentano

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lando Buzzanca

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: John Drew Barrymore

Two teenagers are late for school so they decide to spend the day together.

Genre:

Cast: Clara Marcaccini

Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arthur Kennedy

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentina Cortese

Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jules Berry

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from...

Genre: History

Cast: Frederick Culley

Venice Film Festival 1938

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Doris Duranti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Massimo Girotti

Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action...

Genre: Action

Cast: Maria Montez

Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franco Franchi

Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Giovanna Ralli

A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Berti

The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lino Capolicchio

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renato Rascel

An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to escape her protector, he decides to commit a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alberto Anselmi

The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regina Bianchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franco Interlenghi

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Umberto Melnati

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Cast: Nerio Bernardi

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Virna Lisi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fosco Giachetti

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Grazia Francia

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacqueline Laurent

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tino Scotti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Calamai

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Maria Ferrero

In a Latin American country, a rebel frees the prisoners of the local tyrant. Some traitors cause the death of many of his companions and he births...

Genre: History

Cast: Gérard Landry

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power...

Genre: War

Cast: Belinda Lee

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giuseppe Gulino

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Gramatica

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

Genre: War

Cast: Andrea Checchi

The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Miranda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Checchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neda Naldi

Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.

Genre: War

Cast: Fosco Giachetti

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Genre: War

Cast: Clara Calamai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Jachino

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armando Falconi

Venice Film Festival 1935

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annette Bach

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Berti

This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Mangano

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Steve Reeves

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alida Valli

The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders herself for his freedom but is again freed by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Mickey Hargitay

An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw when she imagines to be some kind of modern-day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Dowling

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsa Merlini

Venice Film Festival 1941

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oretta Fiume