Ovidio Del Grande

During WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival.

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.

1940년대 이태리의 제노바 항구는 독일의 나치가 장악하고 있었다. 이 항구에 영웅적인 저항군 지도자 로베레 장군이 상륙하다가 뜻하지 않게 사살이 되고, 이에 독일 보안대는 이 사실을 감추고 바르도네(비토리오 데시카)란 사기꾼을 로베레 장군으로 위장시켜 레지스탕스 가담자들을 가둔 감옥에 집어넣게 된다. 평생 남의 불행이나 약점을 이용해 등쳐먹고 살던 사기꾼 바르도네는 로베레 장군 행세를 하면서 죄수들에게서 정보를 얻어내면, 상당한 보상을 약속을 받고 나찌의 가짜 로베레 장군 역할을 해나가는데... 가짜 로베레 장군인 줄 모르는 동지들은 이 영웅적인 지도자에게 절대적인 존경과 신뢰를 바친다. 그 과정에서 이 비열한 사기꾼은 마음에 변화가 생기게 되고, 그들의 존경과 신뢰를 배반하지 않기 위해, 그는 진짜 로베레 장군으로 바뀌어 가게 된다. 동료 죄수들 가운데 다툼이 일어나면 그는 로베레 장군답게 그들을 타이르고 중재도 하고. 죽음의 공포에 떠는 죄수에게는 애국투사로서의 용기를 불어 넣어 주기 까지 한다. 감옥동지들의 구심점인 그는 진정한 로베레 장군으로서 동지들과 함께 의연하게 사형장으로 끌려가, 동지들을 격려하는 연설을 마친 후 결국 함께 총살을 당하게 된다.

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...

메카 순례를 마친 회교도 하지 무라드의 러시아 짜르의 침략군에 대하여 전투를 이끌고 그의 전사를 지도한 제 19세기 체첸 수령의 이야기.

Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.

Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.

A man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death.

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.

In the military academy of the Nisida Air Force a new course begins which sees among the new recruits called "chicks": Giorgio, forced by his father after he squandered millions at the gaming table; De Montel son of a general, Mario who wants to follow in the footsteps of his father who died in combat; Antonio who declares himself Neapolitan while coming from the province and Ugo who comes from the north.

Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.

1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.

Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison.

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 private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.

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.

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?

막달레나는 눈에 넣어도 아프지 않을 만큼 어여쁜 딸 마리아를 특별하게 키우고 싶어한다. 때마침 아역 배우를 뽑는 오디션이 열리고, 막달레나는 마리아를 참가시키기 위해 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는다. 결국, 마리아는 오디션을 통과하고, 촬영이 시작된다. 그런데 어린 마리아가 스태프들 사이에서 울고 있는 모습을 보게 된 막달레나는 무언가 크게 잘못되었음을 깨닫는다.

Unlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina's Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film's American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti, a pious young girl who was murdered by her would-be seducer. For reasons elucidated in the course of the film, Maria's short time on earth made her worthy of Sainthood, which was actually bestowed upon her shortly after the release of this film. Maria Goretti is well-played by Ines Orsini. Cielo Sulla Palude served as the comeback feature for director Augusto Genina, whose previous pro-fascist films had caused him to be blacklisted after WW II.

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.

주인공 토니는 바다에서 죽은 아버지 대신 할아버지, 어머니, 세 여동생과 남동생을 부양해야 하는 처지이다. 토니는 중간상인들의 횡포에 대항해 어부들끼리 힘을 합치자고 주장하지만 동조하는 어부들은 없다. 직접 생선을 팔기 위해 그는 집을 담보삼아 배를 산다. 한동안은 생활이 나아지나 엄청난 폭풍 속에 배를 잃고 토니는 겨우 목숨만 건지게 되는데...

In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.

영화적 리얼리즘의 새로운 영토를 개척한 영화로 평가된다. 다양한 유형의 인물들을 통해 전쟁 중의 황량한 물질적, 육체적 조건들이 사실적인 모습으로 묘사되고 있다. 1943년 연합군이 시실리에 상륙했을 때를 시작으로 시간과 공간이 모두 상향 이동된 여섯 개의 에피소드들로 구성되어 있으며, 이 에피소드들은 모두 전쟁의 의미가 고통과 죽음뿐이라는 메시지를 전달한다. 2차 대전 말기, 연합군이 이탈리아 남부에 상륙하여 독일군을 차례로 격퇴시키며 북부로 진격해 올라가는 과정에서 있었던 여러 가지 사건들을 다룬 작품. 로셀리니는 여기서 군인, 민간인, 레지스탕스, 그리고 수도원의 수도사들 등 다양한 인물군상을 등장시켜 특정한 역사적 국면에 놓여 있던 특정한 공간의 사람들에 대한 완벽한 프레스코화를 그려내는 데 성공했다.

The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.

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.