Doris Duranti

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magn ...

The Divine Nymph (1975)

In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other. ...

Vuelo 971 (1953)

Francis the Smuggler (1953)

A smuggler has to skip town at avoid the pursuing police. ...

La muta di Portici (1952)

The Moment of Truth (1952)

After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues. ...

At Sword's Edge (1952)

Tragico ritorno (1952)

Marco, returning home to Livorno after having spent eight years in prison, finds his wife Giovanna married to another man, who the son believes is his real father. He decides to commit suicide but then he meets Elisa, who dissuades him and he begins to liv ...

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 ...

Pentimento (1952)

A cabaret singer, now a widow, is dethroned and expelled downstairs by a fiery rival. ...

La storia del fornaretto di Venezia (1952)

The Counterfeiters (1951)

Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies. ...

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. ...

No One Comes Back (1945)

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s. ...

Rosalba (1945)

Calafuria (1943)

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. ...

La contessa Castiglione (1942)

Giarabub (1942)

The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British. ...

Tragic Night (1942)

Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush wil ...

Capitan Tempesta (1942)

The King's Jester (1941)

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king. ...

La figlia del corsaro verde (1940)

È sbarcato un marinaio (1940)

In a sea port, where he has landed after a long voyage, a sailor meets a girl. To overcome her reluctance, he gives up on leaving again and works as a barker in a fair booth where she works and takes her with him. ...

Ricchezza senza domani (1940)

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. ...

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 ...

Diamanti (1939)

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. ...

Sentinels of Bronze (1937)

A few months before the Ethiopian war. The Abyssinian army lays siege to a fort where the leaders of the tribes loyal to the Italians have taken refuge. The commander of the fort must hold out, and the situation is saved by the heroism of a sergeant who tu ...

The Phantom Gondola (1936)

A femme fatale falls in love with a Venetian count, implacable enemy of Selim, who pursues his sister with his diligence. This one makes stop and condemn to death the count who made an attempt on his life. Then he offers the woman her father's salvation in ...

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 ...

Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they ...

The Serpent's Fang (1935)

Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls. ...