Francesca Bertini

1900

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends...

Cabiria

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch...

The Suitcase of Dreams

A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up recreation...

La Femme d'une nuit

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night...

Salomé

Based on Oscar Wilde's version of the story, what is noteworthy is the sheer luxury of the production, an attem...

The Cinema Machine

Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of fil...

Diva Dolorosa

In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate...

Ivonne, la bella danzatrice

Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic cr...

The Lady of the Camellias

La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourge...

Bellissime

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the fir...

You Belong to Me

The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal cod...

The Merchant of Venice

With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confident that his...

Dora la espía

Dora, daughter of the Marchioness of Río Zares, marries the politician Andrés. Despondent, Countess Zicka launc...

The Clemenceau Affair

The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alf...

Assunta Spina

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as...

L'invidia

King Lear

Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

La donna nuda

L'accidia

Una ragazza di Praga

A woman from Czechoslovakia escapes her homeland after the occupation by the armies of Warsaw pact to Italy to...

L'avarizia

Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But thei...

Pierrot the Prodigal

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with...

Odette

Mariute

The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One...

The Cheerful Soul

La lussuria

Odette

Fedora

An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives.

La terra promessa

Italian short drama from Baldassarre Negroni.

Consuelita

Consuelita, a young woman who longs to escape the harsh conditions of her small fishing village, is married off...

Il Trovatore

A film based on the drama of the same name by Antonio Gutiérrez, which formed the basis for Giuseppe Verdi's fa...

Romeo e Giulietta

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

Shattered Idol

"Idolo infranto is a fantastic way to appreciate Francesca Bertini in the mood for cruelty. From a tender sheph...

La Possession

La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.

Nelly the Fast Girl

Directed by Emilio Ghione. Lost film.

Tosca

Film version of the play.