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Il mio amico Jekyll
Sorvegliante al collegio
Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
Juke Box - Screams of Love
After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her...
Le confident de ces dames
Le servante de Goberti
There Is a Path in the Sky
Rosita
We will get married in Capri
signora ficcanaso
Ore 10: lezione di canto
La professoressa di canto
An American in Rome
Elderly spectator on TV
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is completely crazy for everything that comes from the States. He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever), to wear like he thinks Americans do, to walk like John Wayne, trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup... His life is a complete parody of the real American way of life, which he couldn't ever get.
Days of Love
Filomena Droppio, nonna di Pasquale
A man and a woman would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin".
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Vecchiatta
A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
The Daughter of the Regiment
La trappola di fuoco
Toto and the Women
la suocera
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
Sangue sul sagrato
Half a Century of Song
Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
Gli undici moschettieri
Documentary directed by Ennio De Concini and Fausto Saraceni.
L'inafferrabile 12
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
The Emperor of Capri
La suocera
Beautiful 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.
The Mill on the Po
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy.
Come scopersi l'America
The rich South American
La carne e l'anima
This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film’s post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo-realist stardom.
Lacrime di sangue
Four Steps in the Clouds
Signora Clelia
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 troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
There's Room Up Ahead
La padrona di Rosella
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
Finalmente soli
Il signore a doppio petto
Il capitano degli ussari
La prima zia
Dopo divorzieremo
Betty, la portinaia delle pensione
Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal. Still, Grace falls for Phil Golder, a violinist penniless. The director of the residence will notice and the best friend of the girl impersonate violinist girlfriend to try to save Grace dismissal.
Validità giorni dieci
La signora dell'ombrello sul treno
After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
La gerla di papà Martin
Celina
Anything for the Woman
L'eredità in corsa
You Love Me, I Love You
Insegnante
L'ospite di una notte
Maria
Animal Crackers
La proprietaria del cavallo pazzo
After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Il segreto inviolabile
Martha
The Property of the Absent
A young lady is employed by a millionaire. She is kidnapped instead of the rich woman by a gang, on behalf of people who were interested in the rich woman's disappearance. She is brought to a special hotel, where the guests are people who are imprisoned because their families wanted to get rid of them. The rich woman is finally able to convince a police officer to investigate the strange vanishing. A prisoner goes mad and sets fire to the prison, which could not have been detected otherwise, freeing the disappeared at last.
Ginevra degli Almieri
Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Ginevra degli Almieri
Laudomia Carnesecchi
Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Passaporto rosso
La signora che lavora con i ferri a maglia
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.