Ovidio Del Grande

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

Италия, 1937-й год. У власти в стране Бенито Муссолини. В небольшом городке страховой агент Омеро Баттифьори ищет новых клиентов. По нелепому, почти гоголевскому стечению обстоятельств городские власти начинают думать, будто бы герой фильма — столичный ревизор, приехавший к ним с проверкой. Администрация города в панике начинает совершать одну ошибку за другой. Кто бы мог подумать, что в конечном счете это приведет к такой катастрофе...

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.

Действие фильма происходит во время немецкой оккупации Генуи зимой 1943-1944 годов. После того как гестаповцы случайно убивают генерала Делла Ровере, лидера итальянского Сопротивления, местный комендант убеждает Бардоне, аморального мошенника, выдавать себя за убитого генерала. Под его именем Бардоне отсылают в миланскую тюрьму, где он должен узнать лидера партизан, с которым Делла Ровере собирался встретиться перед смертью. Бардоне, однако, начинает идентифицировать себя со своими товарищами-заключенными и находит в себе недоступные ему доселе моральные силы и дух лидера Сопротивления.

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...

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.

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.

Все приключения, случившиеся в городке Ассола, не произошли бы именно в нем, если бы он не отличался о других. Через город проходит граница между Францией и Италией и вся жизнь в нем определяется этим фактом. В Ассоле есть два способа зарабатывать деньги: либо подчиняться закону, либо избегать его. Так, главный герой — французский таможенник Фердинанд Пасторелли — живет в соответствии с первым способом, а итальянский контрабандист Джузеппе — в соответствии со вторым. Но их разделяет не только закон. Как водится, в эти непростые отношения между мужчинами вмешивается женщина. Тогда герои начинают вредить друг другу всеми доступными им способами. Два знаменитых европейских комика Фернандель и Тото в классической комедии — «Закон есть закон».

Вито Полара, амбициозный молодой человек, пытается вместе с друзьями открыть свой бизнес по торговле сельхозпродукцией. Для воплощения в жизнь своих планов, ему приходится пойти на сделку с крестным отцом мафии, доном Сальваторе Айелло. Дела Вито сразу начинают идти в гору, он покупает машину, шикарную квартиру, собирается жениться на любимой девушке Ассунте. Но жажда власти и амбиции заставляют его пойти против своего покровителя и бросить вызов одной из самых страшных преступных организаций — неаполитанской каморре.

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.

О водителе трамвая Чезаре, который очень любит свою профессию. Уволенный с работы за незначительный проступок, он как-то ночью приходит в парк и, увидя «свой» трамвай, отправляется на нем в путешествие по городу. Обвинив Чезаре, что он «украл» трамвай, его отдают под суд. Суд оправдывает водителя, и он снова возвращается на работу

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?

Маддалена Чеккони, жена рабочего, узнав, что на киностудии объявлен конкурс среди девочек 6-8 лет на главную роль, приводит туда свою обожаемую дочь Марию и всеми правдами и неправдами добивается кинопробы…

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.

Сицилия, середина 1940-х. Грабительские цены закупщиков рыбы держат за горло обитателей побережья. Одна из рыбацких семей пытается наладить собственный бизнес, но безуспешно. Кажется, что против не только жизненные обстоятельства, но сама судьба — жестокая, несправедливая, помогающая лишь тем, у кого уже все есть…

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.

Фильм начинается вторжением союзников в Сицилию в 1943 году и кончается освобождением страны в 1945-м. Параллельно передвижению во времени фильм ведет зрителя вместе с американскими солдатами сквозь пространство — с юга на север через всю Италию. Река По унесет в море тела десантников, а маленькую сицилийку, пытавшуюся спасти американский патруль, обвиняют в измене. Звездно-полосатый освободитель вдруг ощутит чувство вины за римских проституток, а английская медсестра будет метаться по горящей Флоренции в поисках возлюбленного. Это не только дороги славы. Это война, как она есть.

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.