Camillo Pilotto

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Una hermosa muchacha planea seducir, para luego asesinar, al brutal conquistador que se ha apoderado de su ciudad.

El temible y controvertido rey Herodes encarga a su teniente de mayor confianza Aarón una importante mision: matar a su esposa Miriam si el propio Herodes no regresa con vida de una vista al emperador Octavio. Cuando se difunde el rumor sobre la muerte del monarca, su súbdito Aarón tendrá serias dudas acerca de su cometido.

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.

Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.

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

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)

Tras un improvisado repliegue de las tropas italianas durante la primera guerra mundial, Luisa, su hija y su joven cuñada Clara son sorprendidas por una patrulla austrohúngara en su villa, siendo ambas mujeres violadas. Tras esto se marchan a Verona, y es allí dónde Luisa descubre con horror que se quedado embarazada, al igual que su cuñada. Mientras Luisa intenta abortar, Clara...

La amistad entre dos mujeres se tambalea cuando una de ellas descubre que su marido tiene una aventura con la hija de la otra.

Mara, una mujer de vida fácil, salva a una chica polaca de un accidente de tren donde sus padres mueren. A ella le gustaría adoptarla, y tendría éxito, si un antiguo proxeneta no volviera a su vida...

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.

Un oficial de la Marina alejado ya del trabajo directo en los barcos y adscrito, en consecuencia, a un Ministerio. viene informado de que su esposa envía secretamente a potencias extranjeras diseños militares y proyectos que estaban bajo su custodia. Un cómplice avisa a la mujer quien empieza a tomar medidas para escapar: saluda a su hijito que está jugando y va a su habitación a preparar la maleta. Pero el marido vuelve rápido a casa; la mujer se encierra en la habitación y se suicida con una pistola...

A young man is a servant in the court of a great king of Dalmatia.He was bought when he was still a child ,but he is a high-born gentleman.

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.

Mario Rossi, industrial en vísperas de la quiebra, gana una gran suma en Sisal con los únicos trece de la semana; pero no puede cobrarlo sin exponerse a las demandas de los acreedores que absorberían todas las ganancias. ¿Entonces lo que hay que hacer? No hay salvación: la única solución es el suicidio.

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

En un castillo, algunos actores son invitados de un duque. Sucede que un precioso cinturón de castidad, herencia familiar, desaparece por culpa de un ladrón. Los actores, encabezados por el emprendedor comediante, que mientras tanto se enamora de la hija del duque, logran encontrar la reliquia.

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...

The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

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.

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.

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.

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

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

Venice Film Festival 1940

In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa.

"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.

Giuseppe Verdi, adolescente soñador e inconformista, decide abandonar su ciudad natal para estudiar música en Milán. Enfrentado al rechazo inicial del selecto círculo de la ópera italiana, Verdi vive en el fracaso hasta que conoce a la popular soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, con la que contrae matrimonio y comienza así una intensa trayectoria tan llena de éxitos como de fracasos.

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.

Película histórica que se centra en la figura del procónsul romano Escipión y en sus esfuerzos para terminar con el poder del general cartaginés Aníbal.

An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.

Directed by Marco Elter.

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.

Directed by Amleto Palermi

Based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau.

Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.

A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.