Anna Maria Ferrero

Il falso bugiardo (2008)

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world. ...

La Mort de Danton (1970)

Controsesso (1964)

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. ...

The Four Days of Naples (1962)

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the inv ...

Always on Sunday (1962)

A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups. ...

Gold of Rome (1961)

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death. ...

A Day for Lionhearts (1961)

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic ...

Captain Fracasse (1961)

A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of th ...

The Hunchback (1960)

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. ...

The Dolphins (1960)

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city. ...

Culpables (1960)

A group of people are trapped in a theatre and one of them is a killer. ...

Austerlitz (1960)

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802. ...

Love and Larceny (1960)

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. ...

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. ...

The Employee (1960)

Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world. ...

The Surprises of Love (1959)

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of ...

The Big Night (1959)

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day, beginning with arms theft, leading to an encounter with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat ...

Captain Falcon (1958)

Baron Oddo de Serra who is cruel to his subjects, is neighbor of the Count Gualtiero of Roccalta. The servants of the baron cross the lands of Count to escape his abuses. Baron hatches a plot to assassinate the earl. ...

Desert Warrior (1957)

Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and ra ...

Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)

England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the Prince ...

The Rival (1956)

The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman. ...

Supreme Confession (1956)

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel. ...

The Violent Patriot (1956)

The legendary John of the Black Bands begins a romantic relationship with a beautiful girl without revealing his identity. The girl unconsciously discovers the truth and retires to a convent. She thinks that John is guilty of the death of her family, and c ...

War and Peace (1956)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Der goldene Falke (1955)

The Widow (1955)

A woman falls in love with a race-car driver who two-times her for another girl. ...

Amleto (1955)

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. ...

Songs from all over Italy (1955)

A Parisian in Rome (1954)

The story follows Riccardo, an Austrian pianist studying in Rome and engaged to local woman Fiorella, who has a brief encounter with French tourist Germaine, igniting a love triangle involving misunderstandings, a false arrest, and romantic schemes. Starri ...

Guai ai vinti (1954)

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and bo ...

Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)

Florence, Italy, 1925, during the fascist dictatorship. In order to live near his girlfriend Bianca, young Mario moves to a humble street in the old city center, where he befriends Maciste and Ugo, two anti-fascists. ...

Giuseppe Verdi (1953)

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas. ...

It Happened in the Park (1953)

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there. ...

Neopolitans in Milan (1953)

Afterfive people die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages. ...

Viva la rivista! (1953)

Eager to Live (1953)

Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor. ...

Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome. ...

The Unfaithfuls (1953)

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others. ...

Ragazze da marito (1952)

Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly. ...

Luxury Girls (1952)

Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, ...

Poppy (1952)

A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets. ...

Half a Century of Song (1952)

Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled. ...

The Two Truths (1951)

The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up under the wheels of a tram. On the remains of the woman's body, however, ...

The Forbidden Christ (1951)

Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Bruno Baldi tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis. ...

Il conte di Sant'Elmo (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. ...

The Sky Is Red (1950)

Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eig ...