Gianna Maria Canale

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre. ...

The Avenger of Venice (1964)

Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape. ...

Il treno del sabato (1964)

The Lion of St. Mark (1963)

In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them. ...

The Boom (1963)

Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body fo ...

The Adventures of Scaramouche (1963)

Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about t ...

Tiger of the Seven Seas (1962)

Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the command and the ship to the winner of a challenge among his men. U ...

Clash of Steel (1962)

In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and Isabelle fall in love, and the valiant ...

The Slave (1962)

The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, a ...

Lykke og krone (1962)

Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco. ...

The Centurion (1961)

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader. ...

Conqueror of the Orient (1961)

Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader. ...

Goliath and the Vampires (1961)

Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them. ...

Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women. ...

The Queen of the Pirates (1960)

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people. ...

The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography. ...

Seven in the Sun (1960)

The Devil's Cavaliers (1959)

Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility. ...

The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958)

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. ...

The Whole Truth (1958)

On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their ...

The Silent Enemy (1958)

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb. ...

Hercules (1958)

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delec ...

The Mighty Crusaders (1957)

The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. ...

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 ...

Lust of the Vampire (1957)

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess. ...

The Sword and the Cross (1956)

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power. ...

The Lebanese Mission (1956)

In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the prospecting of an isolated region granted to him by Countess Athelstane Orloff. Their search remains fru ...

Il coraggio (1955)

A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family. ...

Napoleon (1955)

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Vers ...

A Woman Alone (1955)

Three women share the same apartment and the same goal, to find a wealthy husband and settle down. ...

The Shadow (1954)

A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her. ...

Madame du Barry (1954)

The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France... ...

Theodora, Slave Empress (1954)

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict ...

Alarm in Morocco (1953)

When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible. ...

The Man From Cairo (1953)

"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the t ...

Sins of Rome (1953)

74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire. ...

The Eternal Chain (1952)

As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home. ...

The Legend of Piave (1952)

In a castle of the Veneto lives Countess Dolfin: she is a fervent patriot, but her husband Count Riccardo intends to use the opportunity of the war (1915-18) to make illegal profits. ...

Revenge of the Black Eagle (1951)

When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". ...

Go for Broke! (1951)

A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The ...

Double Cross (1951)

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

Vedi Napoli e poi muori (1951)

Totò le Mokò (1949)

Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician. ...

The Iron Swordsman (1949)

Il bacio di una morta (1949)

Italy, 1848. Clara, daughter of a rich Milan trader, is in love with Enrico, a political dissident, but she is forced to marry Count Severi. ...

O Caçula do Barulho (1949)

In a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The brothers hesitate because the youngster keeps getting into trouble, but they end up giving in to the request. G ...

The Mysterious Rider (1948)

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery. ...

Guarany (1948)

Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda. ...

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. ...