Jacques Sernas

Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita (2009)

A documentary about Federico Fellini's cinematic masterpiece. ...

Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (2006)

Pope John XXIII (2002)

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope". ...

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord (2000)

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but hi ...

Love in the Mirror (1999)

In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other. ...

Killer Couple (1998)

Newlyweds Dario and Luciana discover that their quiet neighbors are hired assassins who killed a politician – and become their next target. ...

Suffocating Heat (1991)

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie ...

The African Woman (1990)

A dying woman, who stole her best friend's lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so she orchestrates her former friend's return from a self-imposed exile in Africa in the hopes of breaking the spell. ...

The Miser (1990)

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrang ...

The Man Who Didn't Want to Die (1989)

A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness, only remembers his gang's involvement in a robbery of a rare painting, and the mysterious Madame Jacno wh ...

Escape from Death (1989)

Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia. ...

Last Feelings (1978)

Diego is a troubled runaway who tries to make something out of himself by joining a swimming team and competing in national tryouts and champion races which takes a turn when he is struck by a terminal illness and attempts to find a way to beat it. ...

Children of Rage (1975)

The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. ...

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun (1974)

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg ...

Philadelphia Story (1974)

Italian made-for-TV movie remake of the 1942 Philadelphia Story, also based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry. ...

Super Fly T.N.T. (1973)

A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution. ...

Hornets' Nest (1970)

An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis. ...

Midas Run (1969)

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted. ...

American Secret Service (1968)

Fort Yuma Gold (1966)

Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold f ...

Balearic Caper (1966)

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies. ...

The Dirty Game (1965)

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies. ...

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck (1964)

An Interpol agent is tasked with investigating the deaths of several other agents. ...

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed r ...

The Shortest Day (1963)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...

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 ...

Romulus and Remus (1961)

Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome. ...

The Centurion (1961)

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

Duel of Champions (1961)

A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce an ...

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. ...

Che femmina!! E... che dollari! (1960)

An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate. Combining business with pleasure, they search sunn ...

Love in Rome (1960)

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another. ...

The Huns (1960)

An orphan, raised by a foreign tribe, becomes a warrior queen and falls in love with the leader of her enemies. ...

Culpables (1960)

A group of people are trapped in a theatre and one of them is a killer. ...

The Loves of Salammbo (1960)

During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, ...

La Dolce Vita (1960)

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer. ...

Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter. ...

The Nights of Lucretia Borgia (1959)

Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, th ...

Sign of the Gladiator (1959)

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio. ...

Venetian Honeymoon (1959)

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall ma ...

Lost Souls (1959)

A gang of violent criminals holds captive a group of young women and men in an abandoned mining complex. ...

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. ...

In Six Easy Lessons (1957)

A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident. ...

Goddess Of Love (1957)

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love. ...

The Deadly Riddle (1956)

Traveling through his kingdom's forest one day King Arthur is confronted by The Red Knight who plans to slay him but decides to challenge him with the riddle "What does a woman want from a man?" Instructing him that there is only one correct answer he sets ...

Altair (1956)

In the military academy of the Nisida Air Force a new course begins which sees among the new recruits called "chicks": Giorgio, forced by his father after he squandered millions at the gaming table; De Montel son of a general, Mario who wants to follow in ...

Helen of Troy (1956)

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This give ...

Jump Into Hell (1955)

Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French ...

Big Farewell (1954)

An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends. ...

Maddalena (1954)

The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant. ...

100 Years of Love (1954)

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history. ...

Foreign Earth (1954)

A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition. ...

Loving You Is My Sin (Sister Celeste) (1954)

After her father commits suicide, a young woman asks for help to the son of a Countess and they fall in love. ...

Barrier of the Law (1954)

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang. ...

I Always Loved You (1953)

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realize ...

Sua altezza ha detto: no! (1953)

Other Side of Paradise (1953)

Complicated intrigues fester in the warmth of Segnac, a charming village on the Cô te d'Azur. The hô teliers' daughter, Violaine, has only a few months to live and loves Blaise d'Orliac, who is closely watched by his mistress Michèle. Old O'Hara is plat ...

Lulù (1953)

Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl. ...

10 love songs to save (1953)

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind. ...

I figli non si vendono (1952)

I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard ...

Luxury Girls (1952)

Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, ...

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi (1952)

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination. ...

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 ...

The Last Sentence (1951)

Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate. ...

Bluebeard (1951)

Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lig ...

Cuori sul mare (1950)

Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress. ...

The Sky Is Red (1950)

Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eig ...

Golden Salamander (1950)

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right. ...

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 ...

Lure of the Sila (1949)

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear hi ...

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. ...

Jean de la Lune (1949)

Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and her lovers. She has been the mistress of Richard for a while when Jeff, an engaging but but unrepentant drea ...

Stolen Affections (1948)

The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married. ...

Una lettera all'alba (1948)

Lost Youth (1948)

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to f ...

The Idol (1948)

A young woodcutter turned into a boxer, learns the sad fact that some of his triumphs have been stage managed, and confronts his nasty manager. ...

Mirror (1947)

Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles. ...

Balearic Caper (1966)

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies. ...