Giulio Calì

Eroe vagabondo (1966)

Noah earns his living as a plastic flower seller and despite his crushes and hardships, his sweet and dreamy character pushes him to go forward, as well as the love for a girl to whom he usually gives a flower every week . One day he discovers that his lov ...

The Sword of the Rebellion (1964)

A kind of Italian Robin Hood leads a fight against a tyrant and his henchmen. ...

8½ (1963)

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one ...

Getting Away with It the Italian Way (1962)

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. ...

Nerone '71 (1962)

A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 . ...

The Traffic Policeman (1960)

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy. ...

Escape by Night (1960)

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. ...

Genitori in blue-jeans (1960)

Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls. ...

Winter Holidays (1959)

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel. ...

Un uomo facile (1959)

The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the cha ...

Pia de' Tolomei (1958)

Pia de' Tolomei, despite being in love with Ghino Perticari, was forced to marry a nobleman from Siena who, when he discovers her love for the other man, has her locked up in a tower. ...

The Inveterate Bachelor (1958)

Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided whether to marry her or not. ...

Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò? (1957)

The voice of one of his former classmates studying singing causes an irresistible itch for a wealthy industrialist. The cause is an old aversion that the industrialist has for the singer: he can only heal by overcoming this aversion and transforming himsel ...

Susanna tutta panna (1957)

A young Milanese pastry chef, Susanna, is working in the pastry shop of her family. She has to defend herself from both a jealous boyfriend, and competition from other pastry chefs who want to know the recipe of the famous cream cake that bears her name. ...

The Mysteries of Paris (1957)

Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him. ...

Men and Wolves (1957)

Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention. ...

Nero's Mistress (1956)

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is ...

A Mink Coat (1956)

A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever. ...

La ragazza di Via Veneto (1955)

La bella di Roma (1955)

Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman. ...

A Hero of Our Times (1955)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awa ...

Operazione notte (1955)

An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to escape her protector, he decides to commit a robbery in the company of a friend... ...

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente (1955)

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler. ...

Totò all'inferno (1955)

After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell. ...

Due soldi di felicità (1955)

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette. ...

Ultima illusione (1955)

Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation. ...

Too Bad She's Bad (1954)

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences. ...

Lacrime d'amore (1954)

An American in Rome (1954)

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American. ...

Days of Love (1954)

A man and a woman would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin". ...

In the Eddy of Sin (1954)

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine. ...

Pilgrim of Love (1954)

In this farce Madame Dalia (Alda Mangini) is a mature countess/pseudo-spiritualist grifter who has rented a villa by the sea and, avoiding police surveillance, runs a clandestine gambling den. In town for a peace conference two suitors, one American and o ...

Mother's Heart (1954)

An unworthy nephew, with the help of a girl who seduces the young guardian, robs the aunt of the family jewels. He also manages to put the blame for the theft on the caretaker, engaged to a young woman who is actually the woman's natural daughter. The thie ...

Desiderio 'e sole (1954)

Public Opinion (1954)

Following the death of his wife in unclear circumstances, the mechanic Egisto Bianchi is accused of auxoricide. A journalist begins to take care of the case and ignites public interest with a successful press campaign. The accused is acquitted for lack of ...

A Day in Court (1954)

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters. ...

The Hunt (1953)

A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves. ...

The Suitcase of Dreams (1953)

A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum. ...

At the Edge of the City (1953)

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend. ...

Trouble for the Legion (1953)

Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion. His unfaithful fiancee Irene goes to look for him with his young brother Enrico, but the latter is killed. Will she still manage to free her lover? ...

Ho scelto l'amore (1953)

A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he sear ...

The Unfaithfuls (1953)

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others. ...

La prigioniera della torre di fuoco (1953)

Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, ...

La trappola di fuoco (1953)

Toto and the Kings of Rome (1952)

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination. ...

The Overcoat (1952)

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat. ...

La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there. ...

Cops and Robbers (1951)

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito. ...

Variety Lights (1950)

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly s ...

The Mill on the Po (1949)

In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé's relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy. ...

Le due madonne (1949)

The Gates of Heaven (1945)

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto. ...