Marcello Giorda

The Nun of Monza (1962)

Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger. ...

Messalina (1960)

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most v ...

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. ...

The Black Chapel (1959)

1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies. ...

Vacations in Majorca (1959)

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surpris ...

The Law (1959)

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game. ...

Il marito (1958)

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested ...

The Doll that Took the Town (1957)

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects. ...

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. ...

Flucht in die Dolomiten (1955)

The Seducer (1954)

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time. ...

An American in Rome (1954)

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

A Parisian in Rome (1954)

The story follows Riccardo, an Austrian pianist studying in Rome and engaged to local woman Fiorella, who has a brief encounter with French tourist Germaine, igniting a love triangle involving misunderstandings, a false arrest, and romantic schemes. Starri ...

Il prigioniero del re (1954)

Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story. ...

La campana di San Giusto (1954)

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One. ...

Traviata 53 (1953)

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family. ...

Processo contro ignoti (1952)

Il tallone di Achille (1952)

Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal. ...

Ha da venì... don Calogero! (1952)

A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best. ...

La mano della morta (1949)

The Revenge of Baccarat (1948)

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomp ...

Rocambole (1948)

In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him. ...

Albergo Luna, camera 34 (1946)

A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a m ...

Rigoletto (1946)

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigo ...

Il fabbro del convento (1945)

Torna a Sorrento (1945)

Rita da Cascia (1943)

Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century. ...

Il nemico (1943)

L'angelo bianco (1943)

A young woman who has been seduced and abandoned is led to believe by her former in-laws that their son, whom they sent to an orphanage, is dead. She takes her vows and returns to her homeland after years of missionary work. She learns that her former love ...

Fra' Diavolo (1942)

The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy. ...

Beatrice Cenci (1941)

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci. ...

Don Pasquale (1940)

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage. ...

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama. ...

The Last Days of Pompeo (1937)

The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success. ...

L'albero di Adamo (1936)

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni. ...

Campo di Maggio (1935)