Anchise Brizzi

El célebre cantante Tony Rino está en el ejército y, como era de esperar, su presencia en el cuartel provoca agitación entre soldados, novias e hijas de los egresados. Aprovecha para deshacerse de su molesta novia Milly cuando se enamora de la joven estudiante Valeria, que no quiere saber nada de él. Milly deja a su novio por celos durante la preparación de un espectáculo y Valeria es invitada por Tony para reemplazarla: el éxito y el amor están garantizados.

El faraón Nemorat ordena asesinar a los Reyes de Siria y se casa con Shila, la hija de estos. Shila, en realidad, está enamorada de Resi, un joven médico de la corte del faraón y desprecia a su marido. Kefren, tío de Nemorat, envenena a su sobrino en un intento de usurpar el poder. Nemorat, estando al borde de la muerte, convencido de que Shila sea la autora del envenenamiento, ordena que la entierren viva a su lado. Resi, por lo tanto, convence a la joven para que tome una poción que provoca una muerte aparente y después del entierro consigue entrar en el sepulcro con la ayuda del arquitecto del mausoleo.

El faraón Nemorat ordena asesinar a los Reyes de Siria y se casa con Shila, la hija de estos. Shila, en realidad, está enamorada de Resi, un joven médico de la corte del faraón y desprecia a su marido. Kefren, tío de Nemorat, envenena a su sobrino en un intento de usurpar el poder. Nemorat, estando al borde de la muerte, convencido de que Shila sea la autora del envenenamiento, ordena que la entierren viva a su lado. Resi, por lo tanto, convence a la joven para que tome una poción que provoca una muerte aparente y después del entierro consigue entrar en el sepulcro con la ayuda del arquitecto del mausoleo.

El faraón Nemorat ordena asesinar a los Reyes de Siria y se casa con Shila, la hija de estos. Shila, en realidad, está enamorada de Resi, un joven médico de la corte del faraón y desprecia a su marido. Kefren, tío de Nemorat, envenena a su sobrino en un intento de usurpar el poder. Nemorat, estando al borde de la muerte, convencido de que Shila sea la autora del envenenamiento, ordena que la entierren viva a su lado. Resi, por lo tanto, convence a la joven para que tome una poción que provoca una muerte aparente y después del entierro consigue entrar en el sepulcro con la ayuda del arquitecto del mausoleo.

A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.

Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.

Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.

Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.

Tercera entrega de las andanzas del alcalde comunista Peppone y el párroco del pueblo don Camilo. Todo transcurre en Brescello, a orillas del Po, donde Peppone aspira a llegar a senador, para lo que hará una importante campaña. Pero a pesar de su lucha heroica contra los fascistas durante la guerra, no tiene ni un mísero título académico. Don Camilo podría ayudarle en este tema...

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.

En el umbral de la Revolución, dos hermanas adoptivas, Henrietta y Louise Girard, se enfrentan a las dificultades de la vida. La primera es secuestrada por un noble malvado y celoso de su sobrino, la segunda, ciega, está siendo explotada y obligada a mendigar por una prostituta.

"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea". Gradually she falls in love with him, but he never reciprocates. Things become further complicated when a letter from her first love "Carlo" is discovered.

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.

Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection.

Continuación de "Don Camilo", comedia de Julien Duvivier protagonizada por Fernandel y Gino Cervi, y que contaba el enfrentamiento entre el cura Don Camilo y el alcalde comunista Peppone, a partir de la novela de Giovanni Guareschi. Su éxito fue tal que dio origen a una saga. En "El regreso de don Camilo", el sacerdote es alejado del pueblo por orden del obispo. Eso lo aprovecha Peppone para hacer algunos negocios por su cuenta, pero con tan mala fortuna que puede provocar una inundación en el pueblo.

Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.

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...

Carlo Caretti es un profesor con muchos problemas económicos, que intenta sacar adelante a su familia. Siempre sueña con que el Parlamento eleve los sueldos de los profesores, por lo que su vida se volvería más fácil. Tras ayudar a un príncipe indio que visita Italia, Carlo recibe como regalo un cachorro de elefante.

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.

Cuando se planea un matrimonio secreto entre Othello, un general moro, y Desdemona, la hija del senador Brabantio, su antiguo pretendiente Roderigo se lo toma muy mal. Se alía con Iago, que tiene su propio rencor contra Othello, y los dos conspiran para derribar a Othello. Cuando su primer plan, acusarlo de brujería, fracasa, colocan pruebas destinadas a hacerle creer que Desdemona es infiel.

The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.

Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.

A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.

Orson Welles interpreta al siniestro mago José Bálmano, más conocido por el sobrenombre de Cagliostro, quien se verá envuelto en una trama de intrigas palaciegas a través de la cual de piensa reemplazar a la Reina María Antonieta con una doble, para así poder tener acceso al poder. Adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.

After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. Written by Guy Bellinger

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

En la Roma de la postguerra, dominada por la miseria y el desempleo, dos jóvenes limpiabotas sueñan con comprarse un caballo. La única forma de conseguir el dinero necesario es trapichear en el mercado negro, pero los muchachos intentan en todo momento no ser detenidos.

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.

Drama sobre dos chicas jóvenes que llegan a París en busca de una vida mejor.

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.

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.

Una cantante está enamorada de un talentoso compositor pero, durante una de sus actuaciones, se derrumba y un médico le advierte que no debe volver a cantar nunca más. Dado que su contrato con la compañía de ópera especifica que el trabajo de su amante / compositor es parte del repertorio solo si ella canta, su trabajo parece estar condenado al fracaso.

Venice Film Festival 1940

A humble girl looks so much alike a capricious movies star that she gets to replace her both on the set and in her private life. A remake of a French comedy from 5 years before.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.

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.

It is only the prospect of having a child that draws the otherwise strictly urban new wife, Suzanne, to a family farm, she really doesn't care for the countryside of for her in laws.

Venice Film Festival 1936

Venice Film Festival 1935

Hot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed films released within same week. Like the earlier picture, Loyalty is a historical drama. During the period in which Italy was under Austrian rule, Count Federico (Nerio Bernardi) fights tirelessly to free his people from oppression. The Count's wife Teresa (Marta Alba) remains loyally by his side, even when he is unfaithful to her, which is often. Federico doesn't realize how important Teresa is to him, nor how much he loves her, until it's almost too late. At time of the release of Loyalty of Love, star Marta Alba had transferred her base of operations to New York, where she starred in Broadway production of Tovarich.

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.

His 1933 debut, following some years as a journalist and then script boy, was Treno popolare, an early sound lark about several Roman petit bourgeois on a day trip to the country that was influenced by the German proto-neorealist silent picture People on Sunday (1930). Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.

When his wife storms out of a dinner planned in honor of his American boss (because their dog is not allowed to be at the table) an engineer pretends that his secretary is the missus.

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).

A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.