Cesare Polacco

Those Two in the Legion (1962)

Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring. ...

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. ...

Tipi da spiaggia (1959)

Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go bac ...

Rigoletto (1955)

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto. ...

La campana di San Giusto (1954)

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One. ...

La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)

An Italian historical drama. ...

Fugitive in Trieste (1952)

An Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a hospital ship. Through the efforts of his sweetheart, a witness is found who proves the bombing was not intentional but the result of being hit b ...

Toto the Sheik (1950)

Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion. ...

Totò Looking for a House (1949)

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment. ...

Il trovatore (1949)

Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own. ...

La sepolta viva (1949)

Fifa e arena (1948)

In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and the ...

L'ebreo errante (1948)

Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt. ...

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. ...

Aquila Nera (1946)

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher. ...

The Adulteress (1946)

Merchant of Slaves (1942)

The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941)

A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before. ...

Brute Force (1941)

Eternal Melody (1940)

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

Il bazar delle idee (1940)

Anna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by Mario Morelli, a poet and songwriter perpetually waiting for great success, and a painter, Enrico Bovio, who ...

La última Falla (1940)

Manon Lescaut (1940)

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America. ...

The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)

Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. ...

Ballo al castello (1939)

Animal Crackers (1939)

After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum. ...

Mille lire al mese (1939)

Tonight at Eleven (1937)

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster. ...

Hands Off Me! (1937)

In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée. ...

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 ...