Gustavo Serena

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.

The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.

한 밤에 자동차를 훔치다 현장에서 검거된 코지모는 구치소에 수감되었다가 그곳에 수감된 다른 죄수로부터 마돈나 거리에 있는 전당포를 털 수 있는 방법을 알게 된다. 한탕에 대한 욕심으로 안달이 난 코지모는 자신 대신 죄를 뒤집어쓰고 형을 살아줄 사람으로 삼류 복서인 페페를 매수하는데 이들의 공모를 눈치 챈 경찰은 코지모와 페페를 교도소에 수감한다. 집행유예를 선고받은 페페는 3년형을 선고받은 것처럼 꾸며 코지모에게 동정심을 유발시켜 그로부터 마돈나 거리에서 한탕에 대한 상세한 비밀을 듣게 되고, 출소하여 좀도둑 마리오, 사진사 티베리오, 시칠리 출신의 미켈레, 그리고 나이 먹고 주책없는 늙은 남자와 코지모의 정부, 페페까지 여섯 명이 모여 전당포를 털 계획을 세우던 중 코지모가 출소를 하게 되는데...

나이 오십대에 접어든 철도기관사 안드리아(Andrea Marcocci: 피에트로 게르미 분)는 늦게 본 막내아들 산드로(Sandrino: 에도아르도 네볼라 분)가 영웅처럼 떠받드는 아버지이다. 그러나 그는 가난했고 큰 아들은 자기 때문에 고생하는 어머니편만 들다 집을 나가 거리의 불량배가 된다. 게다가 딸은 가게 점원과 사랑을 해 임신을 한다. 삶의 무게에 짖눌린 안드레아는 정신을 다른 쪽에 팔다가 어느날 철도에 투신 자살을 하는 사람에게 그만 충돌 사고를 내고 만다. 그후 그는 매일 술에 취해 집에 들어오는 데 동료기관사들까지 파업에도 아랑곳하지 않고 기차를 모는 그를 따돌린다. 점점 술에 취해 들어오는 빈도가 높아지고 그럴 때 막내 산드로가 꾀를 낸다. 퇴근 시간마다 아버지를 기다렸다 같이 집으로 모시고 오는 것이다. 자신을 영웅처럼 우러러보는 막내 아들, 그는 집으로 발길을 돌린다. 집안은 점차 평화를 되찾고 불량배들과 휩쓸려 다니던 큰 아들도 집으로 온다. 아무 말없이 자기 목도리를 돌려주면서 용돈이 있냐고 무뚝뚝하게 묻는 안드리아. 그는 모든 오해가 풀린 뒤 동료 기관사들과 함께 크리스마스 파티를 한다. 기분 좋게 노래도 하고 손님들이 다 간뒤 기타도 친다. 그러다 그는 침대에 누워 잠자듯이 숨을 거둔다. 그의 얼굴엔 희미한 미소를 띄고 있었다.

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

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.

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.

The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.

The film depicts the daring endeavors of Michele Pezza, the patriot/ bandit who opposed the Napoleonic occupation of the Kingdom of Naples at the turn of the 19th century.

Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Anna is a wily shepherd girl who is noticed by Ugo, a promising musician who has returned home to his village in search of inspiration.

Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But their mutual enemies figure out a lie that will separate them. Maria will become temporarily rich but then she will commit a crime and will divert into the slums. There Luigi will meet her again.

Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But their mutual enemies figure out a lie that will separate them. Maria will become temporarily rich but then she will commit a crime and will divert into the slums. There Luigi will meet her again.

This is the account of a typical day of the diva Francesca Bertini in contrast to the story of Mariute, a single Friulian peasant girl with three children whose husband is at war. The poor woman suffers violence from three Austrian soldiers and is avenged by her father-in-law. The dramatic story, learned on set from an actor who has just returned from the front, leaves the actress so upset that she is induced to a surge of patriotic solidarity.

Film version of the play.

Elena and Zefor are brothers. They live with their mother in a wild country where smuggling reigns. At their modest home, Zefor plays the violin while she dances to entertain the bandits. Arturo, one of them, has conquered Elena's heart. (IMDB)

The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni. The film features the first onscreen performance from Vittorio De Sica.

An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives.

La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s father disapproves of the relationship and convinces Marguerite to leave Armand, making him believe that she has left him for another man.

La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s father disapproves of the relationship and convinces Marguerite to leave Armand, making him believe that she has left him for another man.

Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information. All is proceeding according to plan until Diana slowly gets torn by on the one hand her duty as a spy, and on the other her passionate feelings for Captain Argo.

Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information. All is proceeding according to plan until Diana slowly gets torn by on the one hand her duty as a spy, and on the other her passionate feelings for Captain Argo.

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.

Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite and aristocratic heiress. Two sides of a woman with a split personality.

Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite and aristocratic heiress. Two sides of a woman with a split personality.

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).

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.