Carlo Ninchi

Two Women

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown b...

Position Wanted

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is w...

Constantine and the Cross

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he fa...

The Affairs of Messalina

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

La nemica

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

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

Fabiola

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. Af...

The Captain's Daughter

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

100 Years of Love

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

Beauties on bicycles

Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on bre...

The Beauty of the Devil

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages...

Desire

Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Re...

Mid-Century Loves

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelit...

Before the Deluge

The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famou...

The Dream of Zorro

An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of pr...

The Gates of Heaven

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, maki...

Toto Tours Italy

A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order...

Musketeers of the Sea

Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the gove...

Engaged to Death

A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the...

La grande avventura

The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed fun...

Le sei mogli di Barbablù

Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly...

Destiny Unknown

Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are...

La fiammata

Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.

The Guilty

Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who ins...

The Betrothed

Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When...

Totò le Mokò

Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relat...

Tiger of the Seven Seas

Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of...

The King's Jester

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about...

Rosso e nero

Il marito

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister wh...

The Conquest of the Air

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage t...

Side Street Story

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people livin...

Rapture

Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a y...

Chéri-Bibi

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily...

Songs in the streets

In Milan, the beggar Carlone has formed a brotherhood. Carlone's sister Anna, is a poor blind girl. One day Car...

Love I Haven't... But... But

Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio,...