Guido Celano

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. ...

Via Paradiso (1988)

Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic romance that flourishes on a tranquil Christmas evening and disrupts everything, only to disappear as quickly as ...

I due carabinieri (1984)

Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way. ...

Chopin (1982)

A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special concerts to the community and its environs. The honor of conducting the orchestra seems like it will fall to Francesco (Michele Plac ...

Cross Shot (1976)

A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media. ...

Mark Shoots First (1975)

Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx". ...

The Slight (1975)

A glamorous playboy thug's brutal trail of murder, terrorism and sexual blackmail across Las Vegas, Rome, Paris and London quickly wins him a prominent place in the Rome syndicate loosely run by an aging and decrepit Mafia Don. He even wins over the Don's ...

Flavia the Heretic (1974)

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts. ...

Nights of Boccaccio (1972)

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success ...

The Sicilian Checkmate (1972)

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily. ...

La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona (1969)

The Blonde from Peking (1967)

Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris. ...

The Cold Killer (1967)

Jose Desmet, a butler, killed his employer because the latter, once a district judge, had long ago condemned Desmet's father, a well known gangster, to death. When Desmet tries to seduce Salazar's daughter, who is heir to a goldmine, kills a woman and the ...

The Hills Run Red (1966)

After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty becaus ...

The Flying Saucer (1964)

An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant. ...

Sign of Zorro (1963)

General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice. ...

The Invincible Masked Rider (1963)

In 17th century Spain, the evil, corrupt Don Luis intends to marry his ward, Carmencita, to his stepson, Don Diego. A peasant revolt, fuelled by a plague, complicates matters, as does the arrival of a Masked Avenger. ...

The Immortal One (1963)

A melancholy man meets a stunning, mysterious woman while he is traveling, and discovers she may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring. She disappears after their relationship lasts a few days, and though he searches for her, those around him prete ...

Barabbas (1961)

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the glad ...

Seduction Of The South (1961)

Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory. ...

Black City (1961)

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector. ...

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. ...

Sword of the Conqueror (1961)

Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, which he believes will be beneficial to him, only to have Alboino kill him and leave Amalchi, his daughter's ...

The Policeman on Horseback (1961)

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it. ...

The Pharaohs' Woman (1960)

A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction. ...

The Hunchback (1960)

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. ...

Journey to the Lost City (1960)

An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman. ...

Five Branded Women (1960)

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves. ...

Il bell'Antonio (1960)

Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into question. Despite the fact that he loves his beautiful wife and they have otherwise been happily married for a ...

The Great War (1959)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. ...

Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu. ...

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to ...

Dubrovsky (1959)

Vladimir Dubrovsky returns from St. Petersburg to his family estate, where he finds his father dying and learns that all his lands and serfs have been fraudulently taken by the owner of a neighboring estate. Having organized a detachment of peasants who re ...

Tempest (1958)

A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and e ...

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina (1958)

Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to particip ...

Fortunella (1958)

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince. ...

Young Husbands (1958)

In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for one last time in an attempt to revive their younger days, but this comes to a dismal conclusion. Gradually it ...

Seven Hills of Rome (1957)

After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as sh ...

This Angry Age (1957)

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice ...

Orizzonte infuocato (1957)

Because of a drunken father, Manuela is threatened by Vasco, an adventurer involved in shady business. ...

I sogni nel cassetto (1957)

The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy. ...

Amarti è il mio destino (1957)

Upon the death of her father, Anna, to escape economic ruin and save her family's honor, is forced to marry their main creditor, while her true love, Roberto, has to emigrate to Brazil. ...

I am Catherine (1957)

The story of the life of St. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Girls of Today (1955)

Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man. ...

Il padrone sono me (1955)

In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn a ...

L'ultimo amante (1955)

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help. ...

Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him. ...

Non c'è amore più grande (1955)

While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns. ...

Woman of the River (1954)

When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns h ...

The Boatman of Amalfi (1954)

"Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and jealousy. A letter from a local priest that implicates "Antonio" in the murder of an English nobleman comes t ...

Attila (1954)

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself. ...

Loves of Three Queens (1954)

At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation. ...

I cinque dell'Adamello (1954)

The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later. ...

Ho pianto per te! (1954)

Emma and Lucia grow up together in an orphanage and remain friends throughout adulthood. When Emma has to work away from home, she entrusts her daughter to Lucia. When she receives word that her daughter has died, she is desolate - but whose child did, act ...

The Anatomy of Love (1954)

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom. ...

The Stranger's Hand (1954)

Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him. ...

La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)

An Italian historical drama. ...

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. ...

Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco (1953)

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 ...

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? ...

Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1953)

Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her. ...

Viva il cinema (1953)

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen. ...

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. ...

Red Love (1952)

Femmina Senza Cuore (1952)

Nannina is in love with Vincenzo who is poor and goes to Belgium to make his fortune. Nannina marries a rich elderly man. Vincenzo returns from Belgium and the passion flames up again. Nannina loses her head and wants to kill her husband; however, she is k ...

Never Take No for an Answer (1951)

It's a story about a young Italian orphan boy taking his pet donkey to the Vatican to be blessed. ...

The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue (1951)

Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness. ...

Seven Hours of Troubles (1951)

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't los ...

L'amore di Norma (1951)

The Thief of Venice (1950)

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

Outlaw Girl (1950)

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts do ...

The King's Guerrillas (1950)

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child. ...

Deported (1950)

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities. ...

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 ...

Fabiola (1949)

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of t ...

The Grand Hotel Affair (1946)

In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel? ...

Il fabbro del convento (1945)

Enrico IV (1943)

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. ...

Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)

Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned. ...

La maschera e il volto (1942)

A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality. ...

Don Cesare of Bazan (1942)

In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador. ...

Fedora (1942)

This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again. ...

Le due orfanelle (1942)

Sleeping Beauty (1942)

The servant girl Carmela arrives from her village to work in the house of the notary Don Domenico, a hypocritical and ambiguous man, who seduces her. The girl flees from the house and falls into the clutches of a shrew who flatters her with promises and wa ...

Primo amore (1941)

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years. ...

Fanfulla da Lodi (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. ...

Il socio invisibile (1939)

Follies of the Century (1939)

An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law. ...

Last Desire (1939)

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can ...

Jeanne Doré (1938)

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. ...

Musica in piazza (1936)

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 ...

Amore (1936)

It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Suzette to the farm of an Italian working class family. She really doesn't like the country or her in laws. ...

Piccola mia (1933)

A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver. ...

The Blue Fleet (1932)

Italy's first flying film showed the strides that land had made in aviation, preparing for military action under Fascism.The 3 comrades of the plot have their differences but work together and 2 of them at least find romance back on earth. ...

Palio (1932)

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past off ...

La scala (1931)

Clotilde, wife of lawyer Giulio has just returned from an extramarital affair that ended badly: the only bond she still has with her husband is the hope of finding their daughter. The house is bursting with gossip and rumors. One day comes news about their ...

Gun Shy Piluk (1968)

A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to pleased. The father, Mr. Piluk, is the local undertaker and also plays a mean violin when he is in a bad mood. ...

The Cold Killer (1967)

Jose Desmet, a butler, killed his employer because the latter, once a district judge, had long ago condemned Desmet's father, a well known gangster, to death. When Desmet tries to seduce Salazar's daughter, who is heir to a goldmine, kills a woman and the ...

Uomini ombra (1954)

Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information. ...