Mario Passante

Nights of Cabiria

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her l...

La Strada

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zamp...

Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love...

Black Sunday

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody...

The Widower

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters...

It Happened in the Park

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movi...

The Swindle

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny R...

The Miller's Beautiful Wife

A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller...

The Gold of Naples

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing he...

I Am Semiramis

Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon....

Roaring Years

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported...

The Thief of Baghdad

When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince inte...

Too Bad She's Bad

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paol...

Caccia al marito

Italy, Sixties. A four-storey beach resort, and they look for the man of their life. Will they succeed?

Black City

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police...

The Traffic Policeman

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems f...

The Bigamist

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to cons...

Here comes the gang

Love is born between Anna, daughter of Alfonso, a wealthy farmer, and Luigi, a drum player in a musical band, w...

Neapolitan Turk

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch...

Mi permette babbo!

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

I'll See You on the Balcony

Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptio...

Robin Hood and the Pirates

On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him hom...

The Last Judgment

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day....

Casta diva

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

Are We Men or Corporals?

These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the hara...

Parola di ladro

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry...

La contessa azzurra

Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa...

The Swordsman of Siena

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiance...

No Sun in Venice

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very ri...

The Four Truths

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely par...

Love and Chatter

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper...

Il marito

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister wh...

The She-Wolf

A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young sol...

Ferdinand I King of Naples

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise h...

Desiderio 'e sole

La moglie è uguale per tutti

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage...