Leonardo Cortese

Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.

After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.

O professor Franco Bresci, um jovem perito em línguas orientais, é contratado por um diplomata, Bernard Stork, para que seja tradutor. A seguir apaixona-se pela secretária do chefe, Ellen. Franco é despedido por um erro de tradução e em suas imprecações invoca o diabo, que lhe aparece e o faz saborear a celebridade, encarnando-o nos corpos de um tenor e de um boxeador.

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.

"Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.

The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...

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

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

Directed by Mario Camerini.

This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.