Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Filming Othello (1979)

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles. ...

L'Italia in pigiama (1977)

Mondo Magic (1975)

This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life. ...

The Regent's Wife (1974)

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a provincial city of northern Spain inspired in Oviedo. The young Ana, married to a retired regent, lives oppre ...

Africa nuda, Africa violenta (1974)

A mock "diary" investigates rites and customs of African tribes. ...

Call of the Vampire (1972)

A small rural Spanish village of the present is haunted by vampires. Dr.Dora Maeterlick is called to a nearby castle to cure the father of Baron Carl von Rysselbert who suffers from a strange blood disease. Erika, assistant to Doctor, falls in love with Ca ...

Africa Uncensored (1971)

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa. ...

Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)

A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building. ...

Queens of Evil (1970)

A young hippie kills a man, and seeks refuge at the lakeside house of three beautiful sisters, who seem to be hiding a dark secret. ...

The Tigers of Mompracem (1970)

After the evil maharajah Varauni exterminated his whole family, the brave Sandokan decides to retreat on the island of Mompracem to meditate a terrible revenge against him ...

Symphony of Love (1970)

Al Bano and Romina bring to the big screen the unhappy love between the composer Franz Schubert and the Hungarian Countess Anna Rostkov. Al Bano sings the immortal 'Ave Maria'. ...

Il corsaro (1970)

After famous pirate Jeffrey Brook frees himself from captivity, he lands with on a Caribbean island. A lot of gold is said to be stored there. In order to get to the treasure, Brook accepts an offer from the British officer Jackson. ...

Fortunata y Jacinta (1970)

Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue ...

Zorro in the Court of England (1970)

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (1969)

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain. ...

The Merchant of Venice (1969)

An unreleased 1969 made-for-TV short adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, produced, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. Originally part of the abandoned CBS special Orson's Bag, the completed film later became partially lost due to missi ...

The Specialists (1969)

Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob. ...

The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)

In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, ...

Tarzana: The Wild Woman (1969)

The daughter of Sir Donovan is believed dead with her mother and other relatives in a plane crash in the African jungle. Fifteen years later, vague reports arrive in Europe that a Kenyan tribe has elected a white woman as their queen, Tarzana (meaning 'str ...

Hell Commandos (1969)

Members of a German tank crew become trapped behind enemy lines. ...

Un corpo caldo per l'inferno (1969)

After robbing a jewelry store, Charles is found dead by Marcel Mauriac, the fence he had turned to in order to sell the goods. The rest of the gang, certain that he killed him to get hold of the jewels, set a trap for him. ...

The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)

The Allied D-Day invasion is a success, and German forces begin leave Normandy. After an ambush takes out a set of Panzer tanks led by German Lt. Hunter, he finds himself alone with his unit in what may be the last Panzer that's still operational. While tr ...

Poppea's Hot Nights (1969)

Poppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles. ...

Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex? (1968)

Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of breastfeeding, in which the newborn feels pleasure from contact with the mother's breast until reaching adulthood. ...

Vengeance for Vengeance (1968)

Major Bower's wife tells her lover Chaliko where her father's fortune is hidden. When the major finds out he murders her and with his gang, goes after Chaliko. ...

A Gun for One Hundred Graves (1968)

At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the four ...

Requiem for a Gringo (1968)

Returning home, Ross Logan immediately gets into conflict with the Carranza gang, which had just crossed the Mexican border and has occupied a nearby Hacienda. After his brother is killed he plans a cold blooded revenge for which he separates the gang's mo ...

Son of Black Eagle (1968)

Count Aleksej is a notorious seducer at the Czar court but also the son of local Caucasus hero Black Eagle. When the Russians invade his land Aleksej must decide where to stand while pursuing his passion for Natascia, who detests him. ...

Dead for a Dollar (1968)

When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back and forth game plays out as the men try to get the money for themselves. But another player, the heir of the sneaky gang leader, is also on the hunt... ...

Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968)

A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him. ...

A Stranger in Paso Bravo (1968)

After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group of gunmen led by Acombar. This situation causes Gary ski ...

I'll Die for Vengeance (1968)

A Mexican gang headed by vicious Pedro terrorizes the land between New Mexico and Arizona. Jeff a youth whose father has been killed by Pedro seeks revenge. ...

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle (1968)

Adventurer Clint travels across Borneo with a bunch of rogues and geologists on the search for a diamond mine. In the middle of the jungle, they meet a beautiful woman called Samoa. Hardly a surprise that Clint falls in love with Samoa, but trouble with th ...

Volver a vivir (1968)

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love. ...

Acid Delirium of the Senses (1968)

The film, set almost entirely in New York, tells of the life of some young people of the late Sixties: of the use they make of various drugs, including the terrible LSD, of their sex life and their freedom of costume and thought. ...

Eine Handvoll Helden (1967)

An episode from the war in 1806 when a small troop of Prussian soldiers digs in at a mill in order to defend itself against the overwhelming advance of the French army. ...

Desert Commandos (1967)

German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders. ...

Kill the Wicked! (1967)

A robber decides to hide his loot in a ghost town, helped by his girlfriend and his one remaining man. Keeping it though may be a problem, with the lone inhabitant, an old lady, a mysterious stranger, a recent widow and a former gang member all more or les ...

Assault on the State Treasure (1967)

Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world are in charge to rob it. An undefined intelligence agency tries to stop them. An infiltrator is not sure for ...

Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North (1967)

A former Canadian Mountie escorts a group of women and coffins to Fort Eagle, but finds it destroyed and remains to defend the fort from a gang of marauding Indians and outlaws led by the mysterious Renegade who are after a shipment of gold bullion. ...

Snow Devils (1967)

A heroic expedition braves snow-whipped precipices and discovers the dreaded humanoids. But wait – these are extraterrestrial yetis who zipped in from outer space to conquer Earth by melting the polar ice caps with high-energy proton fields. Will mankind ...

Delitto a Posillipo (1967)

A man accepts a job in a night club to make ends meet. When the owner of the club is found murdered his jealous wife is accused of the murder. He believes her innocent however and fights to clear her name. The film is based on a real life case. ...

A Million Dollars for 7 Murders (1966)

Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula. ...

Zorro il ribelle (1966)

California, a province of the Spanish colony Mexico. Don Ramiro, the secretary of the tyrannical governor, is charged with assuring his son, don Luis, the chief of the military police, can marry Isaballe, the daughter of don Miguel, who plans to divide his ...

The Spy Who Loved Flowers (1966)

Three enemy agents lead a government security man on a perilous trail as the hunter becomes the hunted. ...

War Between the Planets (1966)

Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it. ...

War of the Planets (1966)

In the 21st century, aliens with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth. ...

The Wild, Wild Planet (1966)

A rogue cop must stop a scientist from taking over the world with his deadly female robots, who are shrinking the world leaders. ...

Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl. ...

The Invincible (1966)

In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he meets. ...

4 Dollars of Revenge (1966)

Bandits ambush Capt. Roy Dexter of the U.S. Cavalry while he and his men escort a fortune in Confederate gold coins. Only Dexter survives the attack. He's subsequently sentenced to life in prison on the false belief he masterminded the ambush. Escaping fro ...

So This Is God's Country? (1966)

A Mondo documentary focused on the 1960's American lifestyle, consumerism, religion, adversity, and oddity. An outsider's look at a country afflicted by episodes of racism and neo -Nazism. Scenes of a Ghost Town, LSD in NYC, Sunset Strip Los Angeles Calif ...

The Tramplers (1965)

After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He sends them out to deal with the threat of the representatives from the North. However, not all the sons share ...

SuperSeven Calling Cairo (1965)

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera. ...

The Desert Renegades (1965)

In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos the Princess Yasmin while engaged in selling guns to warring factions. ...

Chimes at Midnight (1965)

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, ...

Doc, Hands of Steel (1965)

Doc McGregor, former surgeon become player, is wrongly accused of murder and pursued by Slade, a bounty hunter. In his escape he finds Larry Kitchener's corpse and decides to impersonate him. But his problems get worse as Kitchener was a famous gunslinger ...

Man from Canyon City (1965)

Red and Carraucho, after escaping from jail, reach the border to Mexico and are hired by Morgan, a rich silvermine owner. Disgusted by the latter's cruelty, especially against the local peones, the two support a revolt organized with the aid of Mrs. Vivian ...

Hands of a Gunfighter (1965)

A gunman returns to his earlier life when the Carter / Castle brothers shoot his friends and he is threatened with being separated from his son. ...

Legacy of the Incas (1965)

During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it. ...

008: Operation Exterminate (1965)

The British Secret Service sends agent 006 to Cairo, to collaborate with an American colleague in searching for a stolen anti-radar device, but soon finds the task a bit more than he bargained for. ...

Left Handed Johnny West (1965)

Lone gunman Johnny West and his dog, Gypsy, fall foul of twin bad men who have designs on a gold mine. After having his gun hand crushed Johnny is joined by 2 feuding ex boxers and their explosive expert sidekick as they all take on the villains, restore t ...

The Captain from Toledo (1965)

Fall of the Mohicans (1965)

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son U ...

Mission Bloody Mary (1965)

An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies. ...

Two Idiots at Fort Alamo (1965)

During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a del ...

Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace (1965)

Jeff Clayton, who has already won $5,000 at poker when the game's big loser returns, asking for one last hand. This time, the stranger will wager his portion of a ranch. He loses, tries to gun down Clayton in despair, and loses again, winding up dead on t ...

Marauders of the Sahara (1965)

With the guide of an adventurer of uncertain allegiance, a brother and sister try to rescue their father, held captive by the Bedouins of the Sahara. ...

Jesse James' Kid (1965)

Bill James is still a child when his father, Jesse James, is killed by his cousin Bob. Twenty years later, now with his father's image, his face causes him much trouble, because nobody can forgive him for looking like the man who, for so many years, had be ...

Seven Hours of Gunfire (1965)

When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangeliz ...

Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (1965)

Goliath (Peter Lupus) comes to the aid of the former King Selim in order to regain his throne and rescue his daughter (Anna Maria Polani). ...

Totò d'Arabia (1965)

Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK. ...

Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964)

Hercules goes to Babylon to rescue the Queen of the Hellenes and free the people of Babylon from slavery. ...

Extraconiugale (1964)

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy. ...

3 Avengers (1964)

Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne. ...

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande (1964)

Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery. ...

The High Bright Sun (1964)

This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart. ...

Lost Treasure of the Incas (1964)

A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, where they come up against an outlaw gang that is searching for a buried Inca treasure, which is guarded b ...

The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans! ...

Hercules Against Rome (1964)

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by the leader of the pretorian guards. ...

Hero of Rome (1964)

In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop h ...

The Avenger of Venice (1964)

Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape. ...

Hot Enough for June (1964)

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier. ...

Dawn of a New Day (1964)

The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. "I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID ...

Dark Purpose (1964)

An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic. ...

Hercules and the Pirates (1964)

aka Hercules and the Black Pirates. Brave and noble Samson fights pirates as a soldier in the royal army. He wants to marry lovely fair maiden Rosita, but her haughty governor father disapproves. Meanwhile, the cunning and duplicitous Rodrigo Sanchez joins ...

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)

Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive. ...

The Ten Gladiators (1963)

Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor a ...

Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)

In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the war in Flanders. ...

Samson and the Slave Queen (1963)

The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson whil ...

Samson and the Sea Beasts (1963)

A terrible pirate terrorizes the Antilles plundering ships, slaughtering their crews and selling women as slaves. One of the women asks Sansone for help. ...

The Old Testament (1963)

The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors. ...

The Invincible Masked Rider (1963)

In 17th century Spain, the evil, corrupt Don Luis intends to marry his ward, Carmencita, to his stepson, Don Diego. A peasant revolt, fuelled by a plague, complicates matters, as does the arrival of a Masked Avenger. ...

Dal sabato al lunedì (1963)

The misadventures of Enrico and Sandro: two eighteen year olds looking for their 'first time'. ...

Saladin (1963)

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade. ...

Catherine of Russia (1963)

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him. ...

Imperial Venus (1962)

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love wit ...

War Gods of Babylon (1962)

Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots a ...

Carmen di Trastevere (1962)

Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relationship in progress and continues to use the woman in his shady businesses. ...

Commando (1962)

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost ...

La leggenda di Fra Diavolo (1962)

Adventure about the life of legendary bandi Fra Diavolo (played by Tony Russel). ...

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. ...

The Son of Captain Blood (1962)

The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman. ...

Marco Polo (1962)

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon. ...

Pontius Pilate (1962)

The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John. ...

Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules (1962)

Ulysses offends the gods so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them. ...

Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961)

Peplum movie from 1961 ...

The Corsican Brothers (1961)

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link. ...

Madame (1961)

Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a la ...

Seduction Of The South (1961)

Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory. ...

The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie. ...

Duel of Champions (1961)

A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce an ...

Goliath and the Vampires (1961)

Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them. ...

The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents. ...

The Grand Olympics (1961)

Events and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Livio Berruti, the first white to win the 200 meters, to the deeds of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, ...

The Joy of Living (1961)

Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him). ...

Italia '61 (1961)

In 1961 Turin celebrated the centenary of the Italian unity with a large exposition which lasted from May till October of that year. One of the most popular exhibits was the 28 minute documentary ITALIA ´61 IN CIRCARAMA which was produced by the Walt Disn ...

Odissea nuda (1961)

A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salerno. ...

Gorgo (1961)

When an underwater volcanic eruption tears up the sea bed off the coast of Ireland, two treasure hunters make the discovery of a lifetime when they encounter a gigantic prehistoric monster that's been unleashed from the earth's crust. After capturing the b ...

The Revolt of the Slaves (1960)

A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire. ...

Esther and the King (1960)

Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews. ...

Everybody Go Home! (1960)

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes. ...

The Warrior Empress (1960)

The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos. ...

The Angel Wore Red (1960)

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer. ...

The Savage Innocents (1960)

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police. ...

Siege of Syracuse (1960)

Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle ...

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. ...

Messalina (1960)

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most v ...

Gastone (1960)

During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches. ...

I baccanali di Tiberio (1960)

Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in ...

Ferdinand I King of Naples (1959)

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete. ...

The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt. ...

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959)

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don Cà ...

Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu. ...

Sign of the Gladiator (1959)

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio. ...

Soledad (1959)

Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler. ...

First Love (1959)

Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a man ...

Las locuras de Bárbara (1959)

Adventure in the city (1959)

The Naked Maja (1958)

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba ...

Il bacio del sole (1958)

The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them. ...

Storm Over Jamaica (1958)

A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman. ...

Cannon Serenade (1958)

Kanonenserenade is an Italian-German feature film for the Director Wolfgang Staudte ...

Behind the Great Wall (1958)

A travelogue of China. ...

Il cielo brucia (1958)

He Thief, She Thief (1958)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. ...

Legend of the Lost (1957)

American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure. ...

Female Three Times (1957)

The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecuti ...

Il conte Max (1957)

Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor. ...

L'oceano ci Chiama (1957)

Documentary ...

Engaged to Death (1957)

A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza's Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very ...

Song of the Forest (1957)

A Donatello Golden Plate winning documentary on the Appenines, and on the adventures of a young racoon. ...

White Vertigo (1956)

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. ...

Pasional (1956)

After 8 years of marriage, a couple 20 years apart accuse each other of marital boredom. ...

Roland the Mighty (1956)

In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots ...

The Awakening (1956)

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. ...

The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)

Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship. ...

Nero's Mistress (1956)

On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts ...

Empire in the Sun (1956)

Colorful widescreen travelogue along the Amazon River jungle of Peru, featuring an indigenous village carnival and a snake dance. ...

The Wanderers (1956)

Story of a family of wandering puppet makers and the destiny which rules their fate. ...

Rice Girl (1956)

The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has ...

The Bachelor (1955)

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits hi ...

Girls of Today (1955)

Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man. ...

Courtyard (1955)

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft. ...

Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them. ...

Bravissimo (1955)

The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice. ...

The Last Paradise (1955)

A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and ...

L'ultimo amante (1955)

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help. ...

The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)

A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor. ...

Lost Continent (1955)

Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights inc ...

Toto and Carolina (1955)

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina. ...

Non scherzare con le donne (1955)

Woman of the River (1954)

When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns h ...

Sins of Casanova (1954)

1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married. ...

An American in Rome (1954)

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American. ...

Mambo (1954)

A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count. ...

Human Torpedoes (1954)

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda. ...

Il matrimonio (1954)

An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov. ...

La tua donna (1954)

During WWII, Sandro Ademari (Massimo Girotti), head of a group of Italian partisans, to escape from a Nazi catch, hides himself by a farm. Here he knows Luisa (Lea Padovani) and soon the two married and have a baby. After the war, Sandro, now a solicitor, ...

Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)

Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant. ...

Africa Under The Sea (1953)

The troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea diving expedition in the Red Sea and falls in love with the captain. ...

Il bandolero stanco (1952)

A comedy centered on the character of Pepito. It is an Italian western made before the Spaghetti western era and it is at the same time a parody of the western genre. ...

The Station (1952)

A day in the life of a train station. ...

Othello (1951)

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy. ...

Mamma mia, che impressione! (1951)

Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race. ...

Il diavolo in convento (1950)

March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, de ...

Che tempi! (1948)

Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor, Eugenio Devoto, with whom she has exchanged only a few words. Pastorino, a kind-hearted man, sincerely loves his daughter but is also very attached to mone ...

Christmas at Camp 119 (1947)

Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes ...

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles (1993)

The film recalls Orson Welles' Italian period. "Rosabella" is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of "Rosebud," the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles' debut fi ...

Something Creeping in the Dark (1971)

A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building. ...