Dina Perbellini

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region....

La cambiale

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition...

Vortice

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas beca...

The Iron Crown

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of...

Anna

The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between...

The Children Are Watching Us

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica e...

Il principe fusto

Madri pericolose

A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpos...

Vacation with a Gangster

A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to f...

Ho scelto l'amore

A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, w...

The Slave of Sin

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the chil...

Cuori sul mare

Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.

The Overcoat

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk...

Camilla

Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, wh...

He Who Is Without Sin...

Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused...

Boy Wanted

A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a...

Danger in the Middle East

A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers wor...

Times Gone By

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

Io piaccio

Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invent...

L'allegro fantasma

The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claim...

I cinque dell'Adamello

The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were...

Il prezzo della gloria

A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.

La maestrina

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses peo...

Time of Vacation

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojou...

Ginevra degli Almieri

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses un...

Ginevra degli Almieri

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses un...

Amore

It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Suzette to th...

Animal Crackers

After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.

Appointment for Murder

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives ther...

I figli non si vendono

I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard

The Nonexistent Knight

Agilulfo is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight with only one shortcoming: he doesn't exist....

Capitan Fracassa

La compagnia della teppa

Incatenata dal destino

The Last Days of Pompeo

The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heire...

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