Umberto Sacripante

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gino Cervi

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gino Cervi

In this delightful mixture of romance, comedy and music, the director turns back the wheel of time about sixty years and shows the audience an Italy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gianfranco Giachetti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mario Ferrari

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Monis

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lilian Harvey

Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angelo Musco

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gino Cervi

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Cast: Dria Paola

Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her...

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Cast: Rossano Brazzi

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Spada

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lea Padovani

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Denis

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Preiss

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Cast: Cesco Baseggio

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peppino De Filippo

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gino Cervi

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Merlini

An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emma Gramatica

During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renzo Ricci

A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lia Franca

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guido Celano

Genre: Crime

Cast: Luis Trenker

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivi Gioi

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Lex Barker

Venice Film Festival 1939

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?)...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gianfranco Giachetti

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Chiari

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luis Trenker

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ilaria Occhini

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Villard

Genre: Drama

Cast: Flora Mariel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dina Sassoli