Fernando Previtali

Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.

A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.

Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.

이제 막 결혼식을 마친 신혼부부 이반과 완다는 로마 근교로 신혼여행을 떠난다. 그런데 완다는 로마에 도착하자마자 자신이 좋아하는 소설의 주인공 ‘백인 추장’을 찾아 무작정 길을 나선다. 한 부부의 짧은 여행담으로 당시 이탈리아 사회의 분위기와 불안정한 심리를 담아낸다. 1952년 베니스영화제 경쟁부문 상영

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.

On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her.

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.

Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble.

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.

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.

지위와 존경을 받는 사람으로서의 장발장의 새로운 삶은 끈질긴 형사 자베르에 의해 영원히 위협을 받는다.

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.

떠돌이 청년 지노 코스타(마씨모 지로티 분)는 몰래 트럭을 훔쳐타고 포강 부근의 어느 농가에 오게 된다. 주세페 브라가나(후안 데 란다 분)는 젊은 아내 조반나(클라라 칼라마이 분)과 함께 매점을 운영하고 있다. 지노는 이들 부부와 잠시 함께 지내기로 한다. 조반나와 지노의 관계가 깊어지고, 둘은 함께 도망치기로 하지만 조반나는 떠돌이 생활을 해야 한다는 사실을 받아들이지 못하고 남편이 도망친 것을 눈치채기 전에 집으로 돌아온다. 안코나로 가던 중 지노는 스파뇰로(엘리오 마르쿠초 분)를 만나 친구가 되고 그의 일을 함께 하자는 제안을 받는다. 꽤 오랜 시간이 지난 후, 브라가나가 아마추어 가수 경연 대회에 참가하기 위해 아내와 함께 안코나에 온다. 브라가나는 다시 만난 지노에게 친절하게 대하며 자신의 식당에서 같이 살자고 설득한다. 다시 사랑의 감정이 피어 오른 조반나와 지노는 교통사고로 위장해 브라가나를 살해한다. 그러나 두 사람은 살인을 했다는 죄책감과 경찰에게 발각될 두려움으로 행복하지 못하고, 지노는 조반나가 남편의 보험금을 타내기 위해 자신을 이용했다는 의심까지 품게 되면서 둘의 관계는 삐걱거리기 시작한다. 지노는 아니타(디아 크리스티아니 분)라는 매춘부 댄서와 함께 지내다가 조반니의 임신 사실을 알고 식당을 그만두고 함께 떠나기로 한다. 그러나 결국 자동차 사고로 조반나는 생명을 잃고, 지노는 경찰에 잡혀간다.

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.

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.

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom.

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.