Cesare Barbetti

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadentismo, was beginning to take shape, the film focuses on D'Annunzio's life when he was already an established poet and journalist in Rome. A staunch opponent of democracy and commoners, he searches for passion and pleasure among the wealthy and noble. One such noblewoman Elvira Fraternali Leoni, serves as the muse for his first novel - The Pleasure (Il Piacere).

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.

A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.

An Italian theatrical film edited from Mazinger Z vs. Devilman, UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger, and Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo.

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Com direção do mestre italiano Roberto Rossellini (Roma, Cidade Aberta), Santo Agostinho é uma cinebiografia de Agostinho de Hipona (354-430 d.C.), um dos grandes nomes do Cristianismo e um dos maiores filósofos da Humanidade. A Versátil apresenta o filme com áudio original em italiano e opção de dublagem em português. Rossellini focaliza a principal fase da vida e obra de Agostinho: o momento em que ele se torna bispo de Hipona. Com rigor histórico e realismo, o filme mostra seu combate aos heréticos donatistas, a sua famosa oratória, suas ideias e a realização de seus primeiros livros, como Confissões e Cidade de Deus. Inédito no Brasil, Santo Agostinho é um dos melhores trabalhos de Rossellini e uma oportunidade imperdível de se conhecer um pouco sobre a vida e a obra de Santo Agostinho.

A group of religious fanatics in India, the Tughs, prey upon Europeans and natives alike, capturing and offering them up in sacrifice to their frightful goddess, Kali. The Governor of the Province sends Tremal Naik, a famous Indian hunter,on an expedition to end the savagery.

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.

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese

An Italian drama from 1942.

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.