Antonio Nicotra

Shoeshine

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary...

100 Years of Love

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Cés...

Where Is Freedom?

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a cha...

Hello Elephant

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will in...

It Happened in the Penitentiary

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.

Girls Marked Danger

In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women,...

Of Life and Love

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried m...

The Moralist

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – fr...

At the Edge of the City

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly acc...

Sambo

A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of cha...

Ergastolo

Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Ar...

Mother's Heart

An unworthy nephew, with the help of a girl who seduces the young guardian, robs the aunt of the family jewels....

La trovatella di Pompei

Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents...

Behind Closed Shutters

Middle class Sandra, engaged to be married and living in Turin, searches for her missing sister that is estrang...

It Happened at the Police Station

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the ch...

In amore si pecca in due

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the la...

Cronaca di un delitto

After a factory worker is killed, Sergio Bruni is placed on remand for two years before being released for lack...

Sara e Marti - Il Film

Mamma, perdonami!