Donato (archive footage)
A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."
Dr. Lucidi
Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer who videotapes his victims for the police. As the horrible murders continue, Ritt is unknowingly pushed into the killer's games and he soon becomes a target of the police. The video-killer is on the loose and Ritt must find out the truth before it's too late.
Marini
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in the Piazza Navone, a nun is assassinated by a Ukrainian, placing the upcoming talks between the two leaders in jeopardy. And the head of the American diplomatic corps (the nun was an American) assigns the investigation of the killing to one of his underlings, which leads the young man to investigate the Russicum, a center for the study of Russia within the Vatican city. And from there he finds himself caught up in an intrigue of international proportions, filled with agents and double agents, and ending with a revelation most unexpected.
Dr. Sernich
A fitness instructor marries a traumatized, crippled woman who suffers from PTSD and is tormented by a traumatic event that happened in her past. What is even more unfortunate is that her marriage is part of her maniac husband's evil scheme to kill her for her money. It isn't long before the formula is put into action and the gory body count starts to mount.
Don Lamanna
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III (Joe Don Baker) has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.
Carmine
Os moradores de Manhattan estão sendo assassinados por um psicopata. Um detetive da polícia e um empregado proprietário de um clube de strip-tease tentam encontrá-lo antes que ele assassine novamente.
Priest
The film tells episodes in the life of seventeen-old Gongia in 1920s Albany that lead her to the decision of becoming a nun under the name of sister Teresa.
Augusto Pinna
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
DeCarlo
O Anticristo Damien Thorn, agora com 32 anos, é um empresário de sucesso, pronto para cumprir seu destino. Recém-nomeado embaixador dos Estados Unidos na Grã-Bretanha, ele é ameaçado de morte por um grupo liderado pelo padre DeCarlo. Enquanto Damien se prepara para o retorno de Jesus Cristo, ele toma proveito de seu relacionamento com Kate Reynolds para recrutar o filho dela, Peter, como seu seguidor.
Fillipo Fillici
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
voce narrante
Arthur
Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.
Villeneuve
Archimede (archive footage)
A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Father Eugenio
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
After assassinating a government official, guerrilla takes refuge in a foreign embassy. Tense standoff ensues.
"Gli angeli dalle mani bendate" a docu-film exploring fraud in the sport of boxing. The film was directed in 1975 by Oscar Brazzi and starred his brother Rossano Brazzi in the role of a journalist who boldly investigates the seedy underbelly of the boxing world.
dottor Paluzzi
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.
It is the year 2010 and, due to extreme overpopulation, casual sexual activity has been outlawed. An innocent young girl named Little Red Riding Hood makes her way across the countryside encountering all manner of people exhibiting sexual perversion from both sides of the law. As she witnesses these lewd acts, she dreams of a time when these sexual unions weren't forbidden and people were free to act on their impulses.
Count Frankenstein
Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
Italian Major
Tedesco
A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
Lorenzo del Cambio
The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.
Sheriff
Ty Hardin interpreta o papel de um soldado ianque à procura de vingança dos seis assassinos que tiraram as vidas de sua mulher e seu filho, além de incendiar sua casa. Ele persegue e mata um a um, até que finalmente encontra o chefe da quadrilha...
padre di Barbara
Andrea, the Surgeon
Films shot in Turkish setting with a very low budget by director Oscar Brazzi. The film is a sort of horror in the vein of an esoteric psychological thriller-drama-tinged giallo.
Adolfo Rogano
Baron de Coyne
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
Capt. Sevilla
While on honeymoon with her husband in Spain, a woman wakes up one morning to find he has disappeared. After reporting it to the police, a man shows up claiming to be her husband. But he's not the man she married and no one will believe her.
Writer
A teenage girl begins a career as a prostitute.
A teenage girl begins a career as a prostitute.
Beckerman
Charlie Croker assume um plano complicado para roubar barras de ouro da Itália, bem debaixo dos narizes da polícia e da máfia. Ele reúne um peculiar grupo com os mais infames "hackers", ladrões de banco, sequestradores e motoristas de fuga.
Brigoli
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Story
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Screenplay
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Director
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Giovanni
No fim do século 19, no Pacífico, na região conhecida com Índias Ocidentais Holandesas, o navio Batavia Queen, comandado pelo capitão Hanson, está saindo para procurar uma fortuna que está num navio afundado. Mas tem problemas ao levar condenados e depois com a explosão do vulcão Krakatoa, que provoca um Tsunami, uma onda gigantesca e mortal. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Producer
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Screenplay
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Director
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Ross Simpson
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Dr. Hamilton
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."
Writer
Italian erotic drama
Italian erotic drama
Giorgio
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
Fernando Moschino
Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
l'araldo
There was once upon a time the Grand Duchy of Forilalì where Aladdin lived. After taking part in many robberies, he decided to turn honest for the love of the beautiful Princess Esmeralda. But his intention lasted only a few days. Afterward he found himself in jail with his old companions. They were freed by the magician Magrebì and in a night of lunar eclipse, Aladdin found a magic lamp. He succeeded in cleaning his sister Adalgisa's house with the help of the genie and then, with no help at all, to marry Esmeralda. But evil powers were in action.
Carlos Matabosch
Um conquistador de araque tem que seduzir a cara cortesã (Britt Ekland) a fim de obter um emprego como cantor.
Writer
Sam Whipple, an attorney in once-upon-a-time-land, is startled to receive a visit from Santa Claus shortly before Christmas. It seems that when he was a child, Sam wrote a letter thanking Santa for the presents he'd received, and offering to return the favor someday. That day is now - a mean old soul named Phineas Prune, who holds the deed to the North Pole, is demanding back rent. Otherwise, he's going to evict Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves and take all the Christmas toys. It's up to Sam and Santa to find a way to pay off Prune and prevent Christmas from being canceled.
Director
Sam Whipple, an attorney in once-upon-a-time-land, is startled to receive a visit from Santa Claus shortly before Christmas. It seems that when he was a child, Sam wrote a letter thanking Santa for the presents he'd received, and offering to return the favor someday. That day is now - a mean old soul named Phineas Prune, who holds the deed to the North Pole, is demanding back rent. Otherwise, he's going to evict Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves and take all the Christmas toys. It's up to Sam and Santa to find a way to pay off Prune and prevent Christmas from being canceled.
Phineas T. Prune
Sam Whipple, an attorney in once-upon-a-time-land, is startled to receive a visit from Santa Claus shortly before Christmas. It seems that when he was a child, Sam wrote a letter thanking Santa for the presents he'd received, and offering to return the favor someday. That day is now - a mean old soul named Phineas Prune, who holds the deed to the North Pole, is demanding back rent. Otherwise, he's going to evict Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves and take all the Christmas toys. It's up to Sam and Santa to find a way to pay off Prune and prevent Christmas from being canceled.
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
Antonio Dorigo
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the life he has led so far, which ends in disillusion.
(archive footage)
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
Lorenzo
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Mario Menacci
In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him in favor of his best friend. Soon the selfish man finds himself deserted by all his friends. He winds up involved with his father's patiently waiting lover.
Claudio DeSantis
A atriz americana Pamela Jones (Rhonda Fleming) estava de férias no Brasil, quando conheceu Cláudio De Santis (Rossano Brazzi), um poderoso dono de cafezal no país. Os dois se apaixonaram e resolveram se casar. Passado um tempo em que moravam juntos na fazenda de Cláudio, Pamela começou a se sentir muito solitária, uma vez que seu marido mantinha antigas tradições dentro de casa e vivia praticamente apenas para o trabalho. Nesse momento, surge a figura de Gary Wills (William Redfield), outro americano que fará de tudo para seduzir a fragilizada Pamela.
Count Paolo Barbarelli
An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic.
Leo (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Fabio
Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
Roberto Orlandi
Prudence, uma jovem professora americana, pede demissão da escola depois de ser criticada por dar para uma aluna a sua cópia de um livro sobre romance. Ela viaja para a Itália de navio, aceita um emprego em uma pequena livraria em Roma, e encontra Don, que acaba de romper com sua namorada. Prudence e Don viajam juntos pela Itália e, naturalmente, surge o romance.
Lui-Même
Mondo Cane. Com estas palavras, os diretores deram início ao sucesso internacional de crítica e público deste filme, bem como revolucionaram o gênero documentário para sempre. Filmado em vários rincões do mundo, este épico referencial explora a cultura da vida e da morte, a agonia dos homens e das feras, os tabus do sexo, e das religiões, a transformação da civilização doentia em barbárie. Algumas vezes belo, freqüentemente horripilante e ainda surpreendente, mantem-se um dos mais perturbadores e controversos filmes de todos os tempos. Este shockumentary - foi o começo de tudo. Este é Mondo Cane. Temos nesta obra, a brilhante trilha musical de Nino Oliviero e Riz Ortolani, que inclui a música tema More, indicada ao Oscar.
Signor Naccarelli
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
Lucien Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Archimede
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
Charles Edouard de Valhubert
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
Luc Ferrand
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
Emile De Becque
Clássico musical ambientado no coração do Pacífico Sul e com pano de fundo na Segunda Guerra Mundial. É a história de amor de uma jovem e ingênua enfermeira da Marinha (Mitzi Gaynor) e de um não tão jovem fazendeiro francês (Rossano Brazzi), que se conhecem em uma ilha ocupada pelos norte-americanos. Um jovem soldado (John Kerr) e uma bela garota nativa (France Nuyen) também se apaixonam. Ray Walston, no papel de um marinheiro que vive aprontando tramóias, e Juanita Hall, como a rainha nativa do mercado negro, completam o elenco. A trilha sonora inclui pérolas da dupla Rodgers e Hammerstein como "Some Enchanted Evening", "Bali Ha'i", "There is Nothin' Like a Dame" e "Younger Than Springtime".
Paul Bonnard
O norte-americano Joe January é contratado para levar Paul Bonnard em uma expedição ao deserto em busca de tesouros. Paul Bonnard chega a Timbuktu em busca de um guia para acompanhá-lo ao deserto do Saara. O americano Joe January aceita o trabalho apesar das dúvidas sobre os planos de Bonnard. Dita, uma prostituta que ficou profundamente comovida com o que parece ser a natureza espiritual de Bonnard, segue os dois homens para o deserto. Eventualmente, o trio chega às ruínas de uma cidade perdida, onde Bonnard espera encontrar o tesouro que seu pai buscou anos antes, antes de desaparecer. Mas o que Bonnard acha altera-o de maneiras inesperadas, com resultados trágicos.
Carlo Landi
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Tonio Fischer
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
Bertrand
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Conte Federico Confalonieri
Dino Moriani
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.
Renato de Rossi
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
Nino
Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing to go to any lengths to protect the woman he loves, he discovers that she frankly isn't worth it.
Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini
No funeral de Maria Vargas, várias pessoas se lembram de quem ela era e o impacto que ela causou sobre eles. Harry Dawes era um não muito bem sucedido escritor/diretor quando ele e produtor de cinema Kirk Edwards descobriram ela em uma boate de segunda, onde ela trabalhava como dançarina de flamenco. Ele a convenceu a aceitar a chance de atuação e seu primeiro filme foi um enorme sucesso. O Relações Públicas Oscar Muldoon se lembra de quando Maria estava no tribunal apoiando seu pai, que foi acusado de assassinar sua mãe. Foi o testemunho de Maria que o livrou e ela foi uma estrela maior do que nunca. Alberto Bravano, um dos homens mais ricos da América do Sul, lança seu olhar sobre Maria e ela sai com ele - mais para irritar Edwards do que outra coisa - mas ele a trata mal. Quando ela conhece o Conde Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini ficam profundamente apaixonados. Eles se casam, mas eles não têm uma vida feliz.
Le comte de Cavour
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
Georgio Bianchi
Garotas americanas sonham em encontrar romance em Roma, mas isto não é para secretárias, diz Anita. Mas Maria logo conhece o príncipe Dino de Cessi em uma festa na casa de seu chefe, que a convida a voar para Veneza em seu avião particular. Frances, que está em Roma há 15 anos como secretária de um escritor americano de sucesso que fala muito como George Bernard Shaw e é tão ilusória quanto o professor Henry Higgins em "My Fair Lady", diz a ela para dizer "não" e depois decide que juntos eles podem lidar com o homem apelidado de príncipe predador. Moedas jogadas na Fonte de Trevi podem realmente funcionar como mágica.
Giuseppe Guardini
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
Producer
An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.
Lt. Mario Grandi
An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.
Juan Pablo de Osuna
On the XIX Century in Sierra Morena in Serranía de Ronda spread bandits thant cause panic in the cities robbing and killing travellers.
Cesare Borgia
Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, feeling betrayed, has Marco imprisoned. During a battle Marco proves however his loyalty to his friend, who falls unfortunately deadly wounded.
Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
Philippe de Lagardère
20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge.
Set in 1857, it's the story of a band of revolutionaries fighting against the Borbones.
Conte de la Fere aka Athos
Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
Conte Grilli
The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film
Sigfrido, conte di Treviri
Vladimir Dubrovskij
When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
Pietro
Andrés
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.
Enrico Toselli
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
Donato
An exiled Italian prostitute (Anna Magnani) shields her sister (Geraldine Brooks) from a deep-sea diver (Rossano Brazzi) on an island volcano.
Professor Bhaer
Durante a Guerra Civil Americana, quatro irmãs e a mãe sobrevivem com dificuldades enquanto o pai delas serve com o exército confederado. A história narra como as irmãs cresceram, superaram tragédias, se apaixonaram e descobriram seu lugar no mundo.
Stefano Pelloni
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
Renzo Gamba
Vladimir Dubrowskij
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Ten episodes, one for each of the Ten Commandments. Lost film.
Andrea Corsi
Pablo, Radrennfahrer und Clown
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
Lamberto Finquinaldo
1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
Leo Kovalenski
The second part (Part One released the same year was Noi vivi) of the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s debut novel We the Living , a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand's first statement against communism.
Part One (Part Two was released as Addio Kira!) At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out. Meanwhile, a Party leader, Andrei, also loves her, and she feigns love for him to get political protection for Leo and money to pay for his TB treatment. But can Leo forgive her being Andrei's mistress?
William
dottor Roberto Frassi
In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...
Guido Fuser
Francesco I
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
Mario Cavaradossi
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.
Fred
Michele Donato
Comandante Mario Marchi
Simmia
