Mario Ferrari

Moses the Lawgiver (1976)

The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. This is the edited-down version for theatrical release. ...

Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. ...

The Avenger (1962)

Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people. ...

False Steps (1959)

A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it. ...

L'angelo delle Alpi (1956)

After the death of her adoptive mother, a shy and innocent girl becomes the maid of a rich family and her arrival disrupts the lives of the people she meets. ...

Il Conte Aquila (1955)

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. ...

The Barbarians (1953)

Rome, 1527. Massimo Colonna is in love with Angela, a member of the Orsinis, the Colonnas'arch enemies. As she is officially engaged to Tancredi Serra, the latter, a faithless individual, has Massimo accused of the murder of Prince Orsini whereas he himsel ...

Madonna delle rose (1953)

A young couple, Renato and Maria, struggle to provide for their young daughter Pia. ...

Lulù (1953)

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

Storms (1953)

A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life. ...

Noi peccatori (1953)

A man and a woman love each other, but they can't marry because he's ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What's more, he loses his eyesight in an accident. ...

Hell Raiders of the Deep (1953)

A crack team of Italian naval divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal navy warships anchored in Gibraltar harbour. ...

He Who Is Without Sin... (1952)

Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent to jail, Stefano finds out and decides to annul their marriage. ...

The Queen of Sheba (1952)

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else. ...

Menzogna (1952)

A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman. ...

Sand (1952)

Camillo Mastrocinque was one of many foreigners who came to Brazil in the 1950s to make films. The director of melodramas during the Italian fascist era directed this film, Areião (Inca Film, 1952), which could have spared Maria Della Costa. The film was ...

Verginità (1951)

Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franc ...

Il capitano nero (1951)

Women Without Names (1950)

This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant an ...

Tormento (1950)

Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father's mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn't commit, the couple's domestic tr ...

I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli) (1948)

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her. ...

Il cavaliere del sogno (1947)

Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains. ...

All'ombra della gloria (1945)

La carne e l'anima (1945)

This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film's post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo- ...

Tempesta sul golfo (1943)

Giarabub (1942)

The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British. ...

Divieto di sosta (1941)

A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boardi ...

Il vetturale del San Gottardo (1941)

Il cavaliere senza nome (1941)

Piccolo alpino (1940)

La última Falla (1940)

The Thrill of the Skies (1940)

Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana (1939)

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour ...

Traversata nera (1939)

"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey. ...

Terra di nessuno (1939)

Ettore Fieramosca (1938)

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current ...

Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938)

Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agen ...

Il conte di Bréchard (1938)

Regina della Scala (1937)

In order to encourage the young maestro Vernieri not to break down after the first failures, the director of the theater "La Scala" in Milan tells two significant episodes concerning the theater. ...

Marcella (1937)

Cavalleria (1936)

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitatio ...

Re di danari (1936)

But It's Nothing Serious (1936)

Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more ap ...

Lorenzino de' Medici (1935)

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca. ...

Destiny Unknown (1935)

Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are al ...

Everybody's Woman (1934)

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act. ...

La maestrina (1934)

1860 (1934)

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encoun ...

Your Money or Your Life (1932)

Daniele, a stockbroker, learns that he has lost a large sum entrusted to him by his friend Giovanni Bensi and he does not have the nerve to tell it in person, so he writes a letter to his friend, telling him that he may collect his life insurance, as he is ...

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 ...

The Table of the Poor (1932)

A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor. ...

The Revenge of Hercules (1960)

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler. ...