Ada Dondini

Of Life and Love (1954)

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight ja ...

Lo scocciatore (1953)

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics! ...

Sunday Heroes (1952)

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like a ...

La nemica (1952)

Il microfono è vostro (1951)

Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours". ...

Tragic Spell (1951)

Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a beautiful young woman, but they are unaware of her ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated. ...

Toto the Third Man (1951)

In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women. ...

Honeymoon Deferred (1951)

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets. ...

Toto the Sheik (1950)

Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion. ...

The King's Guerrillas (1950)

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child. ...

If I Were A Member Of Parliament (1949)

A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that ...

Signorinella (1949)

The Za-Bum Circus (1949)

Anthology comedy/romance film ...

Fifa e arena (1948)

In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and the ...

Two Little Orphans (1947)

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. ...

Le vie del peccato (1946)

L'innocente Casimiro (1945)

La resa di Titì (1945)

A young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat n ...

Chi l'ha visto? (1945)

No One Comes Back (1945)

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s. ...

Zazà (1944)

A glamorous female singer Zazà has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne. 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 ...

In cerca di felicità (1944)

Two young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice, finds work in a low-class variety show, where he is captivated by the charms of a dancer. ...

Tutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore (1943)

C'è sempre un ma! (1943)

Il treno crociato (1943)

La valle del diavolo (1943)

Malombra (1942)

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. ...

Violette nei capelli (1942)

Lilia Silvi stars as Carina, an orphaned little seamstress, who is in the habit of sneaking out of her window at night, and go to the theater. Once back in her small chamber, she will act out all the parts of the play she has just witnessed. Her longing i ...

Se non son matti non li vogliamo (1941)

Schoolgirl Diary (1941)

In a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini. The main accuser is her classmate Anna, played by Alida Valli. ...

Piccolo mondo antico (1941)

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will. ...

L'eredità in corsa (1939)

Joe il Rosso (1936)

A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery. ...

Amo te sola (1935)

Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volu ...

Oggi sposi (1934)

Heartbreaker (1931)

A banker gets involved in the theft of a precious jewel. ...