Camillo Pilotto

Mafia alla sbarra (1963)

The story of a poor family and their relationship with the local mafia. ...

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. ...

The Head of a Tyrant (1959)

A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city. ...

Herod the Great (1959)

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting. ...

Peppino e la vecchia signora (1959)

Goddess Of Love (1957)

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love. ...

Pirate of the Half Moon (1957)

Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an ...

The Prince with the Red Mask (1955)

Duke Altichieri rises to power, after his associate, Cpt. Alberico, kills governor Conte Filippo della Scala. 10 harsh years of tyranny follow, until a mysterious figure appears out of nowhere, helping people in their struggle against the regime. He is kno ...

Casta diva (1954)

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her. ...

The Three Thieves (1954)

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has wri ...

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 ...

Night of Love (1954)

Brigitte Bardot stars in this romantic thriller about love and high treason in WWI-era Italy. Matinee idol-turned-filmmaker Mario Bonnard directs this opus. ...

The Slave of Sin (1954)

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult. ...

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. ...

Il romanzo della mia vita (1952)

Black Feathers (1952)

In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam. ...

Wanda the Sinner (1952)

Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart. ...

Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino (1952)

A young man is a servant in the court of a great king of Dalmatia.He was bought when he was still a child ,but he is a high-born gentleman. ...

Giovinezza (1952)

The Affairs of Messalina (1951)

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death. ...

Double Cross (1951)

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate. ...

Ha fatto 13 (1951)

The Thief of Venice (1950)

A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey. ...

Alina (1950)

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner. ...

The chastity belt (1950)

In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief. ...

The Last Days of Pompeii (1950)

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to ...

Pact with the Devil (1950)

The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warri ...

People Like That (1950)

A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns ...

Giudicatemi! (1948)

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. ...

La sua strada (1946)

Giovanni Ferretti leaves his wife and son and sets off in search of fortune abroad. His brother manages to turn around the company's fortunes and secure a future for his nephew Riccardo, who falls in love with Elisabetta, a divorced Hungarian woman who thr ...

La locandiera (1944)

Scorned Flesh (1943)

A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident. ...

Tempesta sul golfo (1943)

Quarta pagina (1942)

The Gorgon (1942)

1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested ...

Rossini (1942)

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice. ...

Princess Cinderella (1941)

Cinderella manages to marry the prince and move to the palace, where she is well-liked and loved by everyone. However, her evil stepsisters devise a way to get her kicked out. ...

The Adventuress from the Floor Above (1941)

A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences ...

I pirati della Malesia (1941)

I mariti (1941)

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute. ...

La figlia del corsaro verde (1940)

Cuori nella tormenta (1940)

Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1940)

Scandalo per bene (1940)

Abandonment (1940)

In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain. ...

Beyond Love (1940)

Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanina Vanini and her secret love for the Carbonaro Pietro Mirilli. The latter, given his commitments in the underground struggle, decides to abandon ...

Allegri masnadieri (1939)

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 ...

Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana (1939)

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour ...

Traversata nera (1939)

"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey. ...

The Hotel of the Absent (1939)

The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous seg ...

I figli del marchese Lucera (1939)

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox. ...

Pietro Micca (1938)

An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession. ...

Il conte di Bréchard (1938)

I fratelli Castiglioni (1937)

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama. ...

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. ...

L'anonima Roylott (1936)

Il grande appello (1936)

An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit. ...

Lorenzino de' Medici (1935)

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca. ...

Le scarpe al sole (1935)

A veteran of the African War, along with two young men, one of whom is newly married, are called to arms to defend their homeland's borders. They will be protagonists of dramatic events involving assaults, retreats, and life in the trenches. The old vetera ...

Full Speed (1934)

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl. ...

Paraninfo (1934)

Port (1934)

Directed by Amleto Palermi ...

Lisetta (1933)

I Sing for You Alone (1933)

Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courag ...

The Haller Case (1933)

Based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau. ...

Cinque a zero (1932)

Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931. ...

The Secretary for Everyone (1932)

The Old Lady (1932)

An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings. ...