Lauro Gazzolo

The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.

Un hombre acosado por un acreedor decide contratar los servicios de un asesino a sueldo para quitárselo de encima.

Un veterinario se forma sin querer una reputación de curandero que le lleva a ser acusado de práctica ilegal de la medicina.

As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).

The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.

Tres muchachas, decididas a obtener fama y a salir en los periódicos, escenifican el falso homicidio de una de ellas, pero después quieren decir la verdad de la escena anunciándolo públicamente.

Tres muchachos intentan cambiar de vida al salir del reformatorio; a cada uno le espera una fortuna distinta.

A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.

Antonio Buonocore, portero de un edificio en Roma, casado con una alemana y con dos hijos, se encuentra por casualidad asistiendo al señor Andrea en su lecho de muerte. Éste le confiesa que está en posesión de material para fabricar billetes de diez mil liras, ya que fue empleado del Banco de Italia, y lo robó para vengarse por su despido y fabricar así billetes falsos. Pero nunca tuvo el valor de hacerlo y ahora le pide a Buonocore que se deshaga de ello. Pero el portero está atravesando un mal momento: persona muy honrada, se ha negado a ser cómplice del nuevo administrador del edificio, por lo que ahora su despido parece inminente. Así, no se deshace del material, pero ignorante de los métodos para estampar los billetes, pedirá ayuda a Lo Turco y Cardone.

A man turns to a life of crime after his mother's death.

Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

Una condesa arruinada descubre la manera de manipular a dos oficiales, uno estadounidense y el otro alemán, a los que conoció durante la guerra. Presenta como si fuera su sobrina a una bailarina de pocos escrúpulos, y ambos se enamoran de ella...

Un inútil ratero y un ladrón de guante blanco coinciden en una casa. El segundo está allí para hacerle chantaje a la mujer de la que posee unas cartas dirigidas a su amante, con ellas pretende hacerse con los millones de la caja fuerte. (FILMAFFINITY)

Película dividida en cinco episodios. "El amor romántico (1900") narra la historia de un joven pianista, que tiene que dejar a su amada para realizar una gira de conciertos. Durante su ausencia, la tía de la joven trata de encontrar un partido mejor para su sobrina. "Guerra (1915-1918)". La intervención de Italia en la I Guerra Mundial separa a una pareja de recién casados cuando esperan la llegada de su primer hijo. "Dopoguerra (1920)". Un militante fascista de provincias llega a la capital para participar con los "camisas negras" de Mussolini en la Marcha sobre Roma (1922). Durante el recorrido tendrá un encuentro inesperado. "Napoli, 1943". Una hermosa historia de amor surge en un refugio napolitano, en el que la población se protege de los bombardeos. "Girandola, 1910". Historia bufa que narra las vicisitudes de un médico que recurre a sus malas artes para ayudar a sus clientes en problemas amorosos.

Basada en cuatro relatos de Luigi Pirandello; "La tinaja", "El abanico", "El certificado" y "Un frac estrecho".

Dos jóvenes adolescentes tienen un hijo debido a un descuido.

Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and justice. Her opponent is the State Town's Inquisitor himself, who set her father's up to escape his own crimes.

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.

Un joven oficial de caballería pide un préstamo a un usurero. Cuando éste descubre que es el amante de su hija, decide robarle, pero la muchacha frustra sus planes. El padre la echa de casa y denuncia los hechos al coronel del regimiento. El oficial se ve forzado a casarse con ella, aunque no la ama...

A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.

Un pobre cura rural recibe una herencia de Estados Unidos. Todo el pueblo se apresta a sacar beneficios del hecho...

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.

After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.

Dos profesores, preocupados por dar una formación sexual adecuada a sus alumnos, deciden que una pareja de jóvenes estudiantes enamorados será el objetivo perfecto de sus experimentos.

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.

Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eighteen year old girl who works as a prostitute, Giulia, younger and sick of tuberculosis, and a girl, Maria.

A snake charmer's genie helps rescue his master's sweetheart (Princess Zeila) from a wicked Sheikh.

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.

Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.

Un marinero, Paolo, se enamora de una chica llamada Luisa conocida gracias a un amigo. Los dos,después de algunos eventos, se casan, pero el día del matrimonio la mujer sufre un grave accidente automovilístico. El hombre trata de olvidar al amor perdido perdiéndose a sí mismo en el alcohol, pero un día conoce a una mujer, Rita, que se parece mucho a la chica de la que se había enamorado locamente.

Early giallo directed by Giacomo Gentilomo.

Ben-Ibhen, médico de Damasco, intenta conseguir los favores de la bella Zobeida, por los que también suspiran el Cadí y el Gran Visir. Para burlarlos a todos, les cita en un palacio que, al poco, asalta el feroz bandido Ka-Fur.

A Paul, un vendedor ambulante, lo convence una joven embarazada, que conoce en el autobús, para que se haga pasar por su marido delante de su familia.

1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.

Italian film from 1942.

A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.

Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner.

On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.

Venice Film Festival 1940

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.

An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.

Venice Film Festival 1939