Giovanni Grasso

The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day...

Toto and Carolina

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acqu...

The Gates of Heaven

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

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...

Retroscena

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The sing...

Easy Years

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

Difficult Years

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he...

We the Living, Part One

At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs...

The Fighting Men

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally let...

Magic Village

Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is fo...

Don Cesare of Bazan

In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched aga...

Times Gone By

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

Melody of Love

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her s...

La famiglia Passaguai

When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring h...

First Communion

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spend...

Margaret of Cortona

A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizen...

Il passatore

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

Sentinels of Bronze

A few months before the Ethiopian war. The Abyssinian army lays siege to a fort where the leaders of the tribes...

Under the Southern Cross

Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer. One...

Fugitive in Trieste

An Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a...

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...

The Age of Indiscretion

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

Cuore di spia

"Spy Heart" - A fisherman is seduced by a young spy who has helped his brother, blind from birth, to get a job...

Welcome Reverend!

A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.

The Conquest of the Air

A sweeping, cinematic pseudo-documentary history of human flight, starting with the failed attempt of Icarus, a...

We the Living, Part Two

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for...

Totò nella fossa dei leoni

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriousl...

Port

Directed by Amleto Palermi

Serenata tragica

Gli innocenti pagano

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches fo...

Los hijos de la noche

A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the...

Terra di nessuno

Il vetturale del San Gottardo

Attendimi - Sono io l'assassino

The Little Adventurers

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the...

Il fanciullo del West

Comedy Western