Antonio Centa

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre. ...

Besieged (1969)

Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis. ...

The Black Sheep (1968)

The Honourable Mario Agosti, incorruptible politician, has a twin brother, Filippo, hedonist and swindler, the true black sheep of the family. Posing as the illustrious brother, Filippo comes into contact with the world of politics and finance, and is not ...

A Difficult Life (1961)

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment. ...

Laura nuda (1961)

Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate. ...

The Woman Who Came from the Sea (1954)

The Wages of Fear (1953)

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey. ...

The Secret Conclave (1952)

Ombre sul Canal Grande (1951)

Set in a somber, shadowy Venice, the film opens with the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Carlo Pavani, a well‑respected executive at Assicurazioni Generali. His absence causes much concern in his upper‑class household. Several days later, his body is f ...

Fugitive Lady (1950)

A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case. ...

The Glass Mountain (1949)

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer. ...

The Man with the Grey Glove (1948)

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, ...

The Mysterious Rider (1948)

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery. ...

Pian delle stelle (1946)

Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans. ...

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 ...

I'll Love You Forever (1943)

Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter. ...

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 ...

A Pistol Shot (1942)

Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now ...

La principessa del sogno (1942)

A sweet young woman who's an orphan is enamored with fairy tales and fantasizes that she's really a princess to help her through her life in the orphanage. ...

Headlights in the Fog (1942)

Manovre d'amore (1940)

Validità giorni dieci (1940)

After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl. ...

Anything for the Woman (1940)

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The Knight of Kruja (1940)

Young Italian journalist Stefano Andriani travels to Albania, where he falls in love with Eliana, a local girl, and she with him. One day, Andriani comes across the tribal chief Hasslan Haidar, an opponent of King Zog's regime, wounded by the royal guards. ...

Ballo al castello (1939)

Una moglie in pericolo (1939)

Battles in the Shadow (1939)

Foreign spies steal the formula for a revolutionary explosive created by an Italian scientist and to decrypt the secret code they kidnap his secretary who knows about it. ...

Princess Tarakanova (1938)

Italian version of 'Princess Tarakanova'. A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova. ...

Under the Southern Cross (1938)

Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer. One is attracted to an exotic native girl that the overseer has at the plantation. ...

Ballerine (1937)

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment. ...

The Duchess of Parma (1937)

La Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which the director established his international reputation, the film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in t ...

Marcella (1937)

Arma bianca (1936)

But It's Nothing Serious (1936)

Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more ap ...

White Squadron (1936)

Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but af ...

The Two Sergeants (1936)

Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason. ...

La luce del mondo (1935)

To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)

An Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm. ...