Giuseppe Varni

Quo Vadis

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begi...

The Affairs of Messalina

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

Black Magic

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Casta diva

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately...

House of Ricordi

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, an...

La forza del destino

Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.

Taxi di notte

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He...

Rigoletto

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and R...

Primo amore

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

La portatrice di pane

France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes t...

Before Him All Rome Trembled

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Odessa in Flames

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her und...

Eugenia Grandet

Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugen...

Tristi amori

Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her hus...

La grande rinuncia

The Great Way

A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.

Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen

Le due orfanelle

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an ima...

Beyond Love

Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanin...

Eternal Melody

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Il trovatore

Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Lu...

La donna del peccato