Mother Superior
Angela Chiaromonte, la hija de un conde italiano que muere al caer de su caballo, podría heredar una gran fortuna, pero su hermana mayor se queda con todo y la deja en la pobreza. Afortunadamente, ella está comprometida con el apuesto oficial Giovanni Severini, pero este es capturado por los árabes en una expedición a África. Dedicando su vida a su memoria, Lillian se convierte en una monja, sin saber que su amante se ha escapado de sus captores y regresa a Italia.
Sant'Ilario is a 1923 silent film
Agnese Mondella
Ambientada en la Italia del siglo XVII, narra las desventuras de dos muchachos que intentan casarse contra la voluntad de un cacique local que hará todo lo posible para secuestrar a la chica. Adaptación de una popular novela italiana que en su época fue una de las películas más exitosas del cine mudo italiano.
La madre
Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.
Za La Mort (Emilio Ghioen) lives in the countryside with his girlfriend Za La Vie (Kally Sambucini). A day does a good deed by taking with him Leo, an orphan found on the street. This situation, however, the rage against the Rats Grey, a group of criminals in the country, because Leo is in possession of an important black envelope. Released in eight chapters.
madre di Guglielmo
Guglielmo Oberdan, the martyr of Trieste, already exemplary figure of fervent irredentist, then anti-Austrian conspirator executed for attempting to assassinate Emperor Franz Joseph after the disillusionment that followed the death of Garibaldi (1882), became, in 1915, the symbol of a civil case of patriotism.
La strega
Based loosely on Shakespeare's play, Plutarch's "Life of Antony", and Pietro Cossa's dramatic poem, "Cleopatra", this movie was spectacular for its time. It offers location shots made in Italy and Egypt, large crowd scenes (e.g., the Roman army embarking in Alexandria), lots of emotional drama (Marc Antony & Cleopatra, his wife Octavia, sister of Antony's rival Octavian, unhistorically coming to Alexandria to beg him to return to her, and some mean, mean looks exchanged between Octavia and Cleopatra.
During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian hostage named Lygia. "Quo Vadis?" is a landmark in epic film-- Certainly Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
Zia Bettina
Italian short drama starring Ida Carloni Talli.
