Mario Costa

Mixed Marriage (2004)

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged. ...

The Beast (1970)

Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young heiress in order to obtain her considerable inheritance. ...

Latin Lovers (1965)

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s. ...

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)

Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace tr ...

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi (1963)

Gladiator of Rome (1962)

A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas. ...

Kerim, Son of the Sheik (1962)

In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Lail ...

Rage of the Buccaneers (1961)

Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade. ...

The Centurion (1961)

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

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. ...

Attack of the Moors (1959)

Rik Battaglia is sent by the king of France to the border with Spain, where the heirs to the throne are staying in a castle-fortress. The Spaniards and Arabs struggle to control the border, while the Moorish Princess (Chelo Alonso) discovers she is not who ...

Cavalier in Devil's Castle (1959)

A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant. ...

Via col para... vento (1958)

Goodbye Forever (1957)

A man discovers his wife's infidelity and kills her lover. ...

The Dollars Are Coming! (1957)

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance... ...

Revelation (1955)

A young communist discovers the power of faith. ...

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil. ...

Pietà per chi cade (1954)

Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice. ...

Per salvarti ho peccato (1953)

Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection. ...

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 ...

Perdonami! (1953)

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother. ...

Melody of Love (1952)

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses ...

Spring song (1951)

Trieste mia! (1951)

Pagliacci (1948)

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player ...

Mad About Opera (1948)

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. T ...

The Barber of Seville (1947)

A crafty barber acts as a go-between for a count in disguise and rescues Rosina from marriage with her guardian. An operatic comedy. ...

This Wine of Love (1947)

Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain. ...

La sua strada (1946)

Giovanni Ferretti leaves his wife and son and sets off in search of fortune abroad. His brother manages to turn around the company's fortunes and secure a future for his nephew Riccardo, who falls in love with Elisabetta, a divorced Hungarian woman who thr ...

L'ospite di una notte (1939)