Aldo Silvani

L'oro di Londra (1968)

The boss has come up with something: Ed, outwardly a brave London citizen, attacks with a well-trained accomplice a van of the British Central Bank. The gangsters capture a million pounds sterling and can escape unrecognized. Scotland Yard is the target of ...

Panic Button (1964)

A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks. ...

Natika (1963)

The film concerns a destructive romance between a young harpist studying in Rome, and a louche playboy and heir to Europe's wealthy corporate and governing class, played by J. D. Barrymore. ...

Giacobbe ed Esau (1963)

A film about twin bothers Jacob & Esau ...

Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking H ...

Damon and Pythias (1962)

Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers. ...

Five Branded Women (1960)

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves. ...

Carthage in Flames (1960)

Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage. ...

Ben-Hur (1959)

In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith. ...

Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter. ...

Fortunella (1958)

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince. ...

There Is a Path in the Sky (1957)

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentm ...

The Last Violence (1957)

Raped during the war by a stranger, Anna is forced by their parents to pretend that that her daughter Lisa is her sister. When she is about to marry the new doctor in the country, her jealous brother resorts to threats of blackmail in an attempt to keep th ...

Saranno uomini (1957)

After leaving the reformatory where they spent their childhood, three boys begin their journey in life. The protagonist ends up becoming a criminal, but is finally redeemed by another of his former classmates, who has become a priest. ...

Disperato addio (1955)

An Italian medical drama based on a novel by Andrea Majocchi. ...

Non c'è amore più grande (1955)

While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns. ...

Rigoletto (1955)

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto. ...

Un palco all'opera (1955)

A pianist recounts the love stories of three famous composers. ...

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil. ...

Il cantante misterioso (1954)

A man escapes from prison but he is seriously wounded and eventually becomes paralyzed. He receives help from a fisherman and his family. ...

House of Ricordi (1954)

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws th ...

La Strada (1954)

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together ...

Disonorata - Senza colpa (1954)

Valley of the Kings (1954)

Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's tra ...

On Trial (1954)

Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth. ...

Storm (1954)

André is a loving and attentive husband, but when he agrees to plead his enamored brother's case with student Françoise Massard, he in turn becomes infatuated with the beautiful woman, who is perpetually in search of true love through a series of hazardo ...

Daughters of Destiny (1954)

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy. ...

Due lacrime (1954)

Italian made romanic drama. ...

Per salvarti ho peccato (1953)

Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection. ...

I Always Loved You (1953)

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realize ...

Beat the Devil (1953)

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine. ...

Vortice (1953)

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments. ...

La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)

A war veteran visits the families of soldiers who died during the war. ...

Condemned to Hang (1953)

Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited. ...

The Age of Indiscretion (1953)

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl. ...

Noi peccatori (1953)

A man and a woman love each other, but they can't marry because he's ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What's more, he loses his eyesight in an accident. ...

Nobody Has Betrayed (1952)

A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ... ...

When in Rome (1952)

An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest. ...

Stranger on the Prowl (1952)

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is ...

L'amore di Norma (1951)

Teresa (1951)

An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother. ...

Spring song (1951)

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide. ...

Trieste mia! (1951)

Il folle di Marechiaro (1950)

The film was originally called "The fires of San Martino". Left unfinished, it was finished in 1950 with the addition of some sequences. ...

The Thief of Venice (1950)

A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey. ...

First Communion (1950)

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock. ...

La strada finisce sul fiume (1950)

An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw when she imagines to be some kind of modern-day Robin Hood. Through local contacts and friends, she arranges a meeting and finds that her "robin-hood'" is ...

Il vedovo allegro (1950)

An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type. ...

Paolo e Francesca (1950)

The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensue ...

Fame and the Devil (1949)

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman. ...

Chains (1949)

A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover. ...

Sicilian Uprising (1949)

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi. ...

Signorinella (1949)

The Golden Madonna (1949)

Patricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. She goes to great lengths in her attempts to locate it again and bring it back. ...

Fabiola (1949)

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 t ...

The Dynamite Brothers (1949)

I Fratelli Dinamite was advertised as Italy's first animated cartoon feature, though historians would hold out for the now-lost 1930s film Pinocchio. Released in the U.S. as The Dynamite Brothers, the film concerns the misadventures of three brothers, musi ...

Difficult Years (1948)

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the wa ...

Mad About Opera (1948)

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. T ...

The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone aro ...

The Captain's Daughter (1947)

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story. ...

To Live in Peace (1947)

An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hi ...

Umanità (1946)

The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The docto ...

Down with Misery! (1945)

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkativ ...

The Rape of the Sabine (1945)

Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. ...

Life Begins Anew (1945)

A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome ...

L'abito nero da sposa (1945)

La carne e l'anima (1945)

This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film's post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo- ...

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 ...

Anything for a Song (1943)

Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners. This allows him to know and fall in love with a beautiful blind girl. ...

Lively Teresa (1943)

Alberto, son of a rich engineer, falls in love with Luisa, a ruthless manicurist who is only after his money. His parents offer him a holiday in Venice because they hope he will forget her. Alberto however leaves for Venice with Luisa, who has asked a frie ...

Gli ultimi filibustieri (1943)

Sequel to "Il figlio del corsaro rosso." Neala, daughter of the Red Corsair, is taken prisoner by the governor of Las Palmas, who wants to marry her for her dowry. Her brother, helped by the filibustieri, goes to her rescue. ...

The Fire Dance (1943)

A decadent noblewoman, whose stranded husband has dilapidated their whole fortune on gambling, tries to keep her daughter in school while hiding their state of poverty from her, by leading a double life as an exotic dancer. ...

Calafuria (1943)

Gente dell’aria (1943)

Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this cause ...

The Genius and the Nightingale (1943)

A biopic of soprano Maria Malibran (1808–1836). A beautiful singer, Maria Malibran, is forced to turn to the stage after her husband takes to gambling, and goes to Paris where she falls in love with a famous violinist. When her money-seeking husband rea ...

Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1943)

Son of the Red Corsair (and nephew of the Black Corsair), departs for the Americas to search for his long-lost half-sister. ...

Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)

Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned. ...

Carmela (1942)

In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along. ...

Thrill (1941)

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him inspiration to finish his novel. Without noticing, he even founds the real culprit. ...

The King's Jester (1941)

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. ...

Ragazza che dorme (1941)

In a village, rumours spread that a treasure is hidden nearby. To finance the search, a farmer sells a 14th-century painting of the Madonna, leaving it with a master restorer. The farmer's daughter, who felt a particular veneration for the sacred image, go ...

Confessione (1941)

Bionda sottochiave (1939)

A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film. ...

L'antenato (1936)

Nozze vagabonde (1936)