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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. ...

Nero and the Burning of Rome (1953)

Pushed by his mother Agrippina, Neron seized power at the expense of Britannicus. His poetry makes him commit numerous crimes. He will die stabbed after having killed his wife, his mother, his advisers, his wife's lovers, and an incredible number of Chri ...

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. ...

The City Stands Trial (1952)

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances ...

Gli innocenti pagano (1952)

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her. ...

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 ...

Twelve Hours to Live (1950)

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeed ...

The Promise (1950)

During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman. ...

Vertigine d'amore (1948)

Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres". ...

Il passatore (1947)

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor. ...

Furia (1947)

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions. ...

Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946)

In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist. ...

Lettere al sottotenente (1945)

Calafuria (1943)

Jealousy (1942)

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as ...

Signorinette (1942)

Quarta pagina (1942)

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. ...

Primo amore (1941)

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years. ...

San Giovanni decollato (1940)

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want ...

L'ispettore Vargas (1940)

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

La gerla di papà Martin (1940)

Addio, giovinezza! (1940)

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated. ...

Cavalleria rusticana (1939)

This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a d ...

Napoli che non muore (1939)

Le due madri (1938)