List activity
26 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
73 titles
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVittorio GassmanDoris DowlingSilvana ManganoTwo criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
- DirectorGregory RatoffOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesNancy GuildAkim TamiroffHypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
- DirectorAnton Gino DomenighiniStarsStefano SibaldiGermana CalderiniGiulio PanicaliPrincess Zeila must choose a prince from among all the princes in Baghdad, despite the evil plotting of Jafar to thwart her hopes.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMichèle MorganHenri VidalMichel SimonIn ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean GabinIsa MirandaVera TalchiA French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMassimo GirottiCharles VanelJone SalinasA young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsAmedeo NazzariSilvana ManganoJacques SernasReturning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDulcie GrayMichael DenisonValentina CorteseAn aspiring composer and pilot is shot down over Italy and rescued by a girl who tells him about a local legend. Returning home to his loving wife, he is inspired to write an opera about the tale, but he longs to meet his rescuer again.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsAmedeo NazzariYvonne SansonAldo NicodemiFirst in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children ,is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsMarcel CerdanFerruccio TagliaviniMischa AuerThree men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsCarla Del PoggioJacques SernasMario BesestiBerta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni.
- DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsRubi DalmaMichele MalaspinaDomenico Viglione BorgheseIn 1902 in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region, 12-year-old Maria Goretti lives with her parents, poor farmhands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy-drinking farmer who offered them board and lodging. Serenelli's 18-year-old son Alessandro is sexually attracted to the pious Maria, who resists his advances. One day the young man murders her because she won't give in to him. Before she dies, Maria forgives her assailant. After her death she is canonized as a saint.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsGina LollobrigidaYvonne SansonCarlo RomanoAgostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsTotòAlda ManginiLia AmandaBeniamino and his family have lived in a school since the end of World War II, but five years have passed and they are compelled to move, but finding an apartment in Rome is difficult. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but during the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Lastly they find a fine, large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsTotòGianni AppeliusGaleazzo BentiBeautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
- DirectorLuigi CarpentieriLadislao VajdaStarsPhyllis CalvertMichael RennieTullio CarminatiPatricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. She goes to great lengths in her attempts to locate it again and bring it back.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsDanielle DarrieuxJean DesaillyVictor GuyauOnce a lowly chambermaid, Amelie Pochet now revels as the pampered mistress of a military man named Etienne.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsLouis HaywardBinnie BarnesMariella LottiA group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòGianna Maria CanaleCarla CalòMobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsNino TarantoTotòVanda OsirisIn the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsErminio MacarioIsa BarzizzaGianni AgusEva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsGino CerviGina LollobrigidaOdile VersoisDuring his wedding day, a man, while is driving to the church for the ceremony, saves a woman from a suicide. The woman is pregnant and she's alone; the man carries her to a cloistered convent,where she gives birth to her son. That's an occasion for the man to reflect about his life.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsMassimo SeratoSilvana PampaniniAugusto Di GiovanniA young man returns to the Marechiaro district of Naples to try to win the girl he knew there when he was a foundling shipwrecked child.
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsAldo FiorelliSilvana PampaniniCarlo GiustiniFernando, a boy growing up in 1920's Italy, is inspired by reading a biography of Saint Anthony of Padua (after whom the city of San Antonio, Texas is named.) The wife of a young Roman painter who disappeared at the end of WWI goes to church with her son Fernando to pray to Saint Anthony for his return. After some time, the painter actually does return. Due to a head wound, he had lost his memory and recovered it on the same day his wife had invoked St. Anthony. The family visits St. Anthony's Basilica and purchases a book dedicated to Saint Anthony. The reading recalls the scenes and images in the life of the saint. The story is told entirely in flashbacks, as the adult Fernando recalls scenes from his childhood and, in turn, scenes from the life of the Saint.
- DirectorNino PagotStarsAldo SilvaniIn this Italian attempt to rival Disney's features, 3 brothers have adventures at school, on a deserted island, as concert performers, and in the most acclaimed episode, at carnival time in Venice.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsItalo TajoNelly CorradiGino MatteraGoethe's drama about Faust, a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsMártha EggerthJan KiepuraJanis CarterA modern adaptation of Puccini's opera La Boheme, this is the story of a group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians who struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals, and of two of them, Rene and Denise, who love in the face of hardship and tragedy.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsGianna Maria CanaleVirginia BelmontPeter TrentThe story is set during the time of the Five Days War of 1848 between Italy and Austria. Clara, daughter of a rich Milan trader who deals with the Austrian army, is in love with Enrico, a devoted member of the Carbonaro revolutionary organization. Unfortunately, her father wants her to marry Count Severi, a young aristocrat who is dissolute, penniless and pro-Austrian. Denounced by Count Severi for his political activities, Enrico is forced to flee, but while crossing the Ticino river he is hit by an Austrian bullet. Hearing that he is dead, Clara in despair marries Count Severi, but the marriage does not turn out to be a happy one. The Count believes his wife to be an adventuress with a lover, and so he decides to poison her and thereby gain the considerable property that she has had bestowed by her father. Then Enrico, who is not dead, returns to Milan and tries to find Clara. He learns that she died the day before and sadly goes to pay his respects at the chapel where her body lies. Amazingly, Clara is not dead but in a state of catalepsy. Enrico abducts her and takes her to a convent to attempt a cure. Suddenly, the Five Days War breaks out and the Count, in an effort to exonerate himself, joins up and is killed. Enrico, after fighting on the barricades, leaves for the front. Eventually, after serving his fatherland, he is able to fulfil his dream by marrying Clara.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsLuigi TosiBarbara CostanovaGianni RizzoThe city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsGino CerviMaria DenisLeonardo CorteseInspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
- DirectorLuigi CapuanoStarsElli ParvoPiero LulliFolco Lulli
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsEva NovaCesare DanovaEnrico Glori
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsMilly VitalePaul MullerEvi Maltagliati
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsGino BechiAntonella LualdiAroldo TieriTwo young scoundrels steal a car of the latest fashion and flee to the mountains of Abruzzo. They meet and help a girl named Maria who feels bad.
- DirectorGiorgio PastinaStarsMarina BertiClara CalamaiRoldano LupiA story from the historic uprising of 1282 known as the War of the Sicilian Vespers (since it began during the evening prayer service of vespers on Easter Monday of that year). Sicily is in a state of unrest under the French rule of Charles of Anjou. Elena di Paterno is betrothed to Salerno gentleman Giovanni da Procida, but she is being forced by the wishes of King Charles to marry the Governor of Palermo. Giovanni returns from exile and from behind the scenes plans a revolt. Pursued by the Governor's men-at-arms under the command of Captain Droet, Giovanni takes refuge in the home of Tommaso, a miller. Captain Droet, meanwhile, meets Laura, the miller's beautiful daughter, with whom he falls in love. But Laura intends to marry a local fisherman, so with the help of both the Abbott of the Church of the Holy Ghost and the Governor's wife, she seeks to hasten the wedding. To thwart her plans Droet lays a trap for the miller who is arrested as a rebel. Tommaso is then fatally wounded in a battle between the French and the rebels. During the marriage celebrations for Laura and the fisherman, Droet attempts to seize the bride by force, but the groom rushes in to stop him. This is the spark that ignites the fire of revolt and all the people rise up. Giovanni comes down from the mountain with his men. The Governor tries to flee, but Elena calls on the people to smite him, though she herself is struck down with her detested husband. Laura is re-united with her beloved, and Sicily is liberated. By the end of the uprising some eight thousand Frenchmen have been put to death.
- DirectorJean GehretStarsGaby MorlayOdette JoyeuxPeter TrentA young Englishman on vacation in France, stays with a family including four sisters. The sweet one loves him but he prefers the sassy one. The former dies and he marries the latter.
- DirectorLuigi CapuanoStarsMassimo SeratoDina SassoliUmberto SpadaroElena is the widow of the Italian Air Force pilot Baldini. She lives with her son in a house on the edge of an area, which the Air Force has left. One day, a military plane, piloted by a former comrade of Baldini, has to make an emergency landing at this abandoned airport. Elena gets so confused and she asks the pilot more details about the death of her deceased husband. Back in the city the pilot tells his former superiors, colleagues and Don Leoni, the former chaplain of the squadron of Baldini, what he has seen. He tells also, that the abandoned airport is to be sold to an agricultural cooperative soon. They cited the airport again, but as training site for young aviation students. A young officer is associated with very young students and they started constructing a glider. The students however, are very interested in the local girls too. Angry farmers and members of the local agricultural cooperatives then try to burn a glider, which just has been finished.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsMarina BertiAndrea ChecchiVivi GioiAfter having been interned in a concentration camp by the Nazis, Professor Taumen, a Jewish surgeon, and his future daughter-in-law leave Italy for Palestine. Once there they are guided by Arie', a member of the Haganah. In Palestine, the extremist Jews of the Irgoun wage a ruthless guerrilla against the British. One of the most active anti-English activists is David Traumen, the professor's own son, engaged to Dina. David now lives with Judith, another fanatic, devoted body and soul to the independence of the future Israel. Informed about the coming of his father, whom he did not hope to see any more, David meets him at the kibbutz housing the refugees. The unexpected presence of Dina upsets him beyond words. He also finds back Arie', with whom he fought in the Allied Army but he soon finds himself quarreling with him : one supports the moderate principles of the Haganah whereas the other advocates terrorism. In the meantime, an English detachment on hunt for the illegal immigrants surrounds the kibbutz. The surgeon and Dina manage to escape but the following day David, who has perpetrated an attack against the British headquarter, is taken prisoner. In reprisal, the men of his group capture George Birkmore, an English lieutenant who happens to have been another brother-in-arms of David and Arie'. Both men are executed. Work resumes at the kibbutz but Arie', Taumen and Dina feel helpless and grieved...
- DirectorClemente FracassiStarsAmedeo NazzariTamara LeesClara CalamaiDrama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan. The martyr entrusts Lamberti with the task of continuing his work, and the Count decides that this can best be achieved by accepting from the Governor a position of high office. The move is misinterpreted by his wife Countess Anna, a fervent patriot, and she distances herself from her husband. She forms a strong attachment to the Governor's young assistant, an exiled Pole, and decides to elope with him. But Ansperti's widow, Giuditta, realizing that the Countess has misunderstood the situation, persuades her to cancel her plans. As a reprisal for his disappointment the assistant denounces the Count to the authorities. In an effort to suppress the scandal the Governor offers Count Lamberti safe passage to Turin. Lamberti pretends to accept, but then hands over the safe passage to his nephew Giacomino. Seriously compromised, the Count gives himself up to the police.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsGianna PederziniVittorina ColonnelloGino SinimberghiAzucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroStarsEdmea LariAldo Bufi LandiVittoria CrispoDuring a rainy night a woman puts a little bundle before a convent. It's a baby girl to whom the nuns give the the name Maria. When Maria grows up she marries Salvatore. Soon a new character is introduced in the story, Salvatore's sister, a no gooder, lover of a loan shark who has got her pregnant. Maria tries to convince him to marry her but she only gains Salvatore's distrust who believes her to be the old man's lover. The two now live apart and Maria is pregnant with Salvatore's child. When she delivers the baby she brings him to the convent like her mother did with her and while she prays the Madonna to forgive her her imaginary sin she's joined by her husband who has finally understood she has always loved him.
- DirectorEdmond LozziStarsRenato RascelMarilyn BuferdPaolo StoppaFilippo De Bellis is in love with a showgirl, Ester. But he must go to his uncle's ranch and leave her. In his ranch Filippo becames a pray for Corinna, who wants to marry him and have the ranch for herself and her father. But the Ester's show arrives in the country and...
- DirectorFernando CerchioStarsGino Del SignoreAfro PoliEnrico FormichiWhen Alidoro weaves his magic spell, everything falls into place.
- DirectorDomenico GambinoStarsPaola BarbaraMaria D'AyalaVittorio DuseFrancisco, a Brazilian son of Italian immigrants, is saved from drowning by Lucia, a Neapolitan girl and falls in love with her. Francisco has to go back to Brasil but promises Lucia he will come back and marry her. Incredibly enough however Lucia's father is in prison because he killed Francisco's uncle in a row twenty years before and the wedding seems doomed to fall through...
- DirectorMario SequiStarsEdda AlbertiniMassimo SeratoNyta DoverFamous Italian writer Moravia is told a story set during WW2: Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara. The poor girl is however ruthlessly pursued by Greta the officer's German girlfriend...
- DirectorGiuseppe AmatoStarsTotòOlga VilliFrank LatimoreCarlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns. Upon Carlo's father's death, Lawyer Rubinordo informs Yvonne that her son is alive, but she prefers that he continues to believe her dead; she doesn't want him to see her in her reduced state.
- DirectorSilvio SianoStarsPaolo CarliniMarga CellaAnna Di LorenzoIn Naples, the young composer Roberto is in love with Stella and would like to marry her, but the girl's mother is opposed, wanting to find for her daughter a better partner.
- DirectorRate FurlanStarsTecla Scarano
- DirectorGiuseppe AccattinoStarsAldo VascoUgo SassoElli Star
- DirectorGuido Guerrasio
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsCarlo DapportoIsa BarzizzaAmedeo NazzariAn artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
- DirectorDonato De RuffoStarsFelice LeoniLia Murano