Nando Bruno

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.

Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient.

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place.

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.

A sailor is accused of the murder of his girlfriend's father.

An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.

A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, the doctor, instead of giving him a sedative, gives him poison. The man goes out of town to visit a client and, unaware that he is wanted by the police, is more than once about to swallow the pills; but every time an obstacle prevents him from fulfilling his purpose.

After she inherits a huge sum of money, a girl suddenly leaves a working-class man that she previously used to fancy.

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.

Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

An American woman tries to break off her relationship with her Italian lover at Rome's Stazione Termini train station. This is Vittorio De Sica's original 89-minute "Terminal Station" which was released first in April 1953 as "Stazione Termini," the Italian title of Cesare Zavattini's story. A year later in May 1954, Columbia Pictures released a different version with the alternative title "Indiscretion of an American Wife" which producer David O. Selznick had re-edited and cut to a shortened 64 minutes, dramatically altering characterization by removing its establishing shots and neorealist touches.

로마의 언니 집에 갔던 미국 부인 메리(Mary Forbes: 제니퍼 존스 분)는 관광 통역을 맡은 조반니(Giovanni Doria: 몽고메리 클리프트 분)라는 청년을 사랑하게 된다. 다혈질의 조반니도 매리를 소개받자 한 눈에 반해버린다.그러나 메리는 발육이 늦은 딸과 8년을 같이 생활해 온 남편을 잊을 수가 없다. 남편은 자신이 건사해주지 않으면 자기 양말하나도 제대로 찾아신지 못하는 그런 사람이었다. 조반니와의 로마에서 보낸 짧은 만남이 꿈같은 시간이었다면 메리가 돌아가야할 곳은 현실이다. 현실은 때로는 지겹고 누추한 곳이지만 꿈은 꿈일 뿐이다. 메리는 자신과 함께 이탈리아에서 눌러 살 것을 간청하는 조반니에게 우리가 헤어질 수 밖에 없는 것은 거역할 수 밖에 없는 우리의 운명이라고 단호하게 말한다. 절망감에 휩싸인 조반니는 자신의 감정을 추수리지 못해 메리의 뺨을 때리고 그곳을 떠난다. 역 밖으로 나온 조반니는 한 동안 망설이다 다시 역 구내로 들어온다. 그리고 후회를 하고 메리를 찾아나선다. 가까스로 메리를 찾은 조반니. 두 연인은 사람들의 눈을 피해 빈 객차 안으로 뛰어든다. 그리고 격정적인 입맞춤을 나눈다. 그런데 그만 공안원에게 발각되어 풍기문란 혐의로 역구내 파출소로 연행된다. 메리는 파출소장에게 8시 30분 파리행 열차를 타지 못하면 자신의 인생은 끝장이라고 통사정을 한다. 취조 결과 파출소장은 이 여자에게 가정이 있고 또 조반니와 이별하기 위해 다음번 파리행 열차를 타고 싶어하는 것을 알고 그녀를 훈방한다. 8시 25분 드디어 메리는 기차에 오르고 덜커덕 차가 움직인다. 움직이는 열차를 향해 조반니가 뛰어간다. 하지만 점점 멀어지는 기차와 메리의 모습. 조반니는 넘어지고 만다. 눈물을 글썽이는 메리. 지나가던 사람이 다치지 않았느냐고 묻자 조반니는 "괜찮아요 상처는 없어요"라고 대답한다.

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, Nando Bruno, the other tenants, and the neighborhood. He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home.

Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.

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.

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.

2차 대전 직후 이탈리아의 수도 로마의 거리. 오랫동안 일자리를 구하지 못하고 거리를 배회하던 안토니오는 우연히 직업 소개소를 통해 거리에서 벽보를 붙이는 일을 맡는다. 그러나 그 일을 하기 위해선 자전거가 필요했고 이 사실을 안 아내 마리아는 남편의 직업을 위해 자신이 소중하게 간직했던 침대 시트를 전당포에 맡기고 자전거를 구입한다. 한편 직업을 갖게 된 안토니오와 그의 아들 브르노는 기쁨을 참지 못하지만 아뿔싸! 이게 웬일? 이튿날 안토니오가 출근하여 벽보를 붙이는 사이 한 사내가 자전거를 타고 도망치는 것이 아닌가?

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...

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.

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.

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...

Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.

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.

The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.

제2차 세계대전 말기 로마가 독일에 의해 점령되었던 시기에 실제로 일어났던 사건에서 소재를 취해 재구성한 영화. 연인의 밀고로 체포되어 사살된 레지스탕스 지도자, 레지스탕스를 돕다가 처형된 신부, 게슈타포에 끌려가는 애인을 향해 달려가다 총에 맞아 죽은 여인의 이야기 등이 엮여있다.

A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.

An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.

Venice Film Festival 1939

A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.