Clara Calamai

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

Debra arrives in Sicily with her boyfriend Turi. As soon as they arrive, the women of the village do not welcome her into the community, giving them to the witch, especially because of the black color of her skin and her great beauty.

Un compositor inglés (Hemmings) presencia en Roma el brutal asesinato de una médium, e inmediatamente trata de localizar al sádico asesino.

Film dividido en cinco episodios protagonizados por Silvana Mangano. En "La bruja quemada viva", de Luchino Visconti, una estrella de cine atraviesa una crisis emocional. En "Sentido cívico", de Mauro Bolognini, Un hombre (Alberto Sordi) sufre un accidente de tráfico y Silvana Mangano se ofrece a llevarlo al hospital en su coche. En "La Tierra vista desde la Luna", de Pier Paolo Pasolini, Totò se ha quedado viudo y busca una mujer para él y una nueva madre para su hijo. En "La siciliana", de Franco Rossi, se narra una historia de seducción, abandono y venganza típicamente siciliana. En "Una tarde como las demás", de Vittorio De Sica, una mujer está más que harta de su aburrido esposo (Clint Eastwood).

El gobernador de Corinto, ante la ciudad asolada por la peste, echa la culpa a los cristianos, imitando el ejemplo de Nerón.

En una ciudad provinciana, Mario, un mediocre oficinista que vive en una modesta pensión, conoce una noche a la joven Natalia, en cuyo rostro se refleja un profunda tristeza. Le da conversación para animarla y ella le explica cómo cambió su anodina vida cuando conoció a un apuesto forastero del que se enamoró y cómo cada noche su regreso. Durante cuatro noches mágicas, Mario, enamorado de Natalia, alberga la esperanza de sustituir en su corazón al misterioso forastero. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Dostoievski.

Drama 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.

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.

Giovanna (Clara Calamai) es una hermosa joven malcasada con el viejo propietario de un restaurante. Su sórdida vida cambiará con la aparición de un vagabundo que se convierte en su amante y al que inducirá a matar a su marido. Adaptación de la novela de James Cain "El cartero siempre llama dos veces".

The quiet days of two elderly spinster sisters are changed for good with the unexpected arrival of their nephew.

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

1875. After completing her studies in boarding school, the young Duchess Anna Castellani, returns home and meets by chance a friend of her father, a count much older than herself.

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.

A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him inspiration to finish his novel. Without noticing, he even founds the real culprit.

Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.

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.

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.

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.

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.

An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.