Renato Castellani

A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.

A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.

Comedy about a lawyer who is suspected of murder

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.

Женившись на красавице Марии, Паскуаля - мучает совесть, что он не может обеспечить ей нормальное существование из-за проблем с работой. Но ему на помощь приходит давний поклоник Марии, который решает остаться незамеченным и помогает им арендовать дом с привидениями....

Женившись на красавице Марии, Паскуаля - мучает совесть, что он не может обеспечить ей нормальное существование из-за проблем с работой. Но ему на помощь приходит давний поклоник Марии, который решает остаться незамеченным и помогает им арендовать дом с привидениями....

Нелегкая судьба Филумены Мартурано, героини одноименной пьесы Эдуардо де Филиппо, была близка всем советским женщинам. Ну а жизненным проблемам и устремлениям Доменико сочувствовали все мужчины. Нужда приводит юную Филумену в публичный дом, где она и знакомится с любвеобильным красавцем Доменико. Спустя годы они встречаются вновь и она становится хозяйкой в его доме, но несмотря на их многолетнюю связь, он постоянно отказывается официально оформить их отношения. И вот наступил критический момент — убежденный холостяк Доменико решает жениться… на одной из своих многочисленных пассий. У любящей его Филумены остается последнее средство…

A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.

A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.

A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.

С детства Нино пришлось столкнуться с несправедливостью и беззаконием. По ложному обвинению был заключен в тюрьму его близкий друг. За неуплату аренды семья Нино лишилась крова и земли, которую они обрабатывали много лет. Год из года мужая, Нино становится сознательным борцом за интересы простых людей Италии.

С детства Нино пришлось столкнуться с несправедливостью и беззаконием. По ложному обвинению был заключен в тюрьму его близкий друг. За неуплату аренды семья Нино лишилась крова и земли, которую они обрабатывали много лет. Год из года мужая, Нино становится сознательным борцом за интересы простых людей Италии.

Молодая горничная Лина попадает в тюрьму из-за махинаций своего возлюбленного. В тюрьме она попадает под опеку Эгле, женщины, наученной горьким опытом жизни и тюрьмы, которая пользуется огромным авторитетом. Она подталкивает Лину в сторону большей независимости и агрессивности. Эгле выливает на девушку весь грязный быт тюрьмы, развращая ее своими аморальными действами. Позже Лину оправдывают, но она не забывает наставления Эгле… Она не может вернуться к прежней жизни. Вскоре она снова попадает в тюрьму, но уже не наивной девушкой, а вульгарной и озлобленной проституткой, тем самым шокируя даже свою «учительницу».

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.

На балу во дворце Капулетти зарождается любовь двух юных существ, судьбою обреченных на ненависть. Ромео Монтекки и Джульетта Капулетти полюбили друг друга на свою беду, ведь их семьи ведут смертельную вражду уже многие, многие годы… Но их любовь сильнее родовой вражды, сильнее предрассудков и непреодолимых препятствий. Великая сила этой любви побеждает все, даже смерть…

На балу во дворце Капулетти зарождается любовь двух юных существ, судьбою обреченных на ненависть. Ромео Монтекки и Джульетта Капулетти полюбили друг друга на свою беду, ведь их семьи ведут смертельную вражду уже многие, многие годы… Но их любовь сильнее родовой вражды, сильнее предрассудков и непреодолимых препятствий. Великая сила этой любви побеждает все, даже смерть…

История вращается вокруг романа Кармелы, дочери владельца мастерской, и Антонио, бедного молодого человека, который пытается исправить свое финансовое положение…

История вращается вокруг романа Кармелы, дочери владельца мастерской, и Антонио, бедного молодого человека, который пытается исправить свое финансовое положение…

История вращается вокруг романа Кармелы, дочери владельца мастерской, и Антонио, бедного молодого человека, который пытается исправить свое финансовое положение…

The second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di Roma and just before Two Cents Worth of Hope). Leading man Mario Angelotti, loving not wisely but too well, quickly discovers that the penalty for bigamy is two wives. Between his tempestuous Sicilian bride, played by Elena Varzi and his sedate Milanese missus (Irene Gemma), the poor man barely has time to take a breath.

The second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di Roma and just before Two Cents Worth of Hope). Leading man Mario Angelotti, loving not wisely but too well, quickly discovers that the penalty for bigamy is two wives. Between his tempestuous Sicilian bride, played by Elena Varzi and his sedate Milanese missus (Irene Gemma), the poor man barely has time to take a breath.

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

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...

In High Places is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Adriana Benetti, Massimo Serato and Nerio Bernardi. It is based on a play by Jean Anouilh. The film portrays the rise into high society of an immoral young man.

An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.

An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.

A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.

A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.

A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.

Экранизация одноименной повести А.С. Пушкина.

Экранизация одноименной повести А.С. Пушкина.

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.

On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.

An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock.

An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.

An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.