Armando Migliari

Appointment in Riviera (1962)

In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years. ...

Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry. ...

Il conte di Matera (1957)

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence. ...

Il cardinale Lambertini (1954)

Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna. ...

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, ...

È arrivato l'accordatore (1952)

Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches. ...

The Secret Conclave (1952)

Totó in color (1952)

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios. ...

The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing t ...

The Last Sentence (1951)

Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate. ...

Position Wanted (1951)

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfai ...

La bisarca (1950)

Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950)

Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom. ...

Santo disonore (1950)

Streets of Sorrow (1950)

A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love. ...

Duel Without Honor (1950)

Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga. ...

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, ...

Heart (1948)

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini. ...

Cab Number 13 (1948)

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the ...

Angelina (1947)

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital ...

La casa senza tempo (1945)

A captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses ...

Il fiore sotto gli occhi (1944)

The Children Are Watching Us (1943)

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair's subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Ita ...

Il viaggio del signor Perrichon (1943)

L'amico delle donne (1943)

Paris, second half of the 20th century. Countess Diana de Simerose has been evading the legitimate rights of her husband, who married her without love, since their wedding day. Fed up with the protracted abnormal situation, the count leaves on a journey, p ...

Music on the Run (1943)

An Italian comedy from 1943. ...

Giacomo l'idealista (1943)

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 ...

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. ...

Signorinette (1942)

The yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage. ...

Labbra serrate (1942)

Acque di primavera (1942)

Giorno di nozze (1942)

A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were. ...

Miliardi, che follia! (1942)

After his plane makes an emergency landing, a kidnapped millionaire assumes the identity of a poor man. ...

Una volta alla settimana (1942)

Soltanto un bacio (1942)

Italian film from 1942. ...

A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian. ...

Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution. ...

If I Was Honest (1942)

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well. ...

I Live as I Please (1942)

A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a joke made by his cousin. ...

La scuola dei timidi (1941)

Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of courage" in a school for the shy and end up falling in love. Their shyness doesn't seem to heal but due to a m ...

Teresa Venerdì (1941)

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pur ...

L'ultimo ballo (1941)

A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life. ...

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)

A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –a ...

La fanciulla di Portici (1940)

During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him ...

L'ispettore Vargas (1940)

A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner. ...

A Romantic Adventure (1940)

At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, ...

La danza dei milioni (1940)

A young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an important Hungarian bank, to make him have a desk in his room and to do so pass for an employee. ...

La gerla di papà Martin (1940)

Giù il sipario (1940)

A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or failure of the play ...

Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei? (1939)

Cousins Michele and Tommaso are told by a notary that a distant uncle has left a large sum of money for them. ...

Retroscena (1939)

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while ...

In campagna è caduta una stella (1939)

An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again. ...

Imputato, alzatevi! (1939)

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse. ...

Ai vostri ordini, signora... (1939)

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then ...

Napoli che non muore (1939)

Heartbeat (1939)

I figli del marchese Lucera (1939)

Le due madri (1938)

Jeanne Doré (1938)

L'amor mio non muore! (1938)

A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his daughter's hand. After 20 yeas he has become a wealthy financier in America; he returns to his homeland and starts to track down the girl of his dreams. ...

Il conte di Bréchard (1938)

Nina, non far la stupida (1938)

I fratelli Castiglioni (1937)

The Man Who Smiles (1937)

I Was to Blame (1937)

A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife. ...

The Last Days of Pompeo (1937)

The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success. ...

La damigella di Bard (1936)

The Turin noblewoman Maria Clotilde di Bard, the sole and elderly heir to an ancient Savoyard title, is reduced to living in the attics of the palace due to the embezzlement of a dishonest administrator. The young lady, who has always been alone due to a g ...