Gino Viotti

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...

The Children Are Watching Us

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

Piccola mia

A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.

Tourist Train

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fasci...

Ballerine

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the...

The Dream of Butterfly

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly...

Marathon

A heated sporting rivalry divides Giorgio Roberti and Fausto Renzi, both capable marathon runners. After a defe...

Palio

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora...

Oggi sposi

Quo Vadis?

"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful wo...

The Serpent's Fang

Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.

Two Happy Hearts

When his wife storms out of a dinner planned in honor of his American boss (because their dog is not allowed to...

Arma bianca

The Man with the Claw

A killer is on the loose, murdering people with an iron claw.

Old Guard

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandi...

The King's Jester

A young girl learns that she is the daughter of an executed politician and conspires to avenge her father's mem...

The Operator

Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.

La donna nuda

Nemesis

Re di danari

La gerla di Papà Martin

An ageing couple, Papa Martin and his wife Genovieffa, live modestly while their son Armando and goddaughter Am...