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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery. ...

Time Out for Love (1961)

Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient. ...

The Traffic Policeman (1960)

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy. ...

Madri pericolose (1960)

A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth. ...

Love and Larceny (1960)

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. ...

Gastone (1960)

During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches. ...

The Widower (1959)

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-non ...

La cento chilometri (1959)

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations ...

Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) (1959)

The Overtaxed (1959)

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes. ...

Everyone's in Love (1959)

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra. ...

3 Strangers in Rome (1958)

Three girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places ...

È arrivata la parigina (1958)

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life. ...

Fortunella (1958)

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

He Thief, She Thief (1958)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. ...

The Love Specialist (1957)

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds. ...

Parola di ladro (1957)

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place. ...

I giorni più belli (1956)

The Band of Honest Men (1956)

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends ...

Courtyard (1955)

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft. ...

Roman Tales (1955)

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get ...

Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them. ...

It Happens in Roma (1955)

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true l ...

The Intruder (1955)

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better ne ...

Scampolo 53 (1955)

A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this. ...

The Young Ladies of 04 (1955)

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower ac ...

Tragic ballad (1955)

A sailor is accused of the murder of his girlfriend's father. ...

The Beautiful Otero (1954)

An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero. ...

Prima di sera (1954)

A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, the doctor, instead of giving him a sedative, gives him poison. The man goes out of town to visit a client ...

Papà Pacifico (1954)

After she inherits a huge sum of money, a girl suddenly leaves a working-class man that she previously used to fancy. ...

The Anatomy of Love (1954)

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

Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)

Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch. ...

Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco (1953)

Una di quelle (1953)

Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure. ...

The Age of Indiscretion (1953)

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl. ...

L'Incantevole nemica (1953)

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter. ...

Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad st ...

Lasciateci in pace (1953)

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive. ...

The Lucky Five (1952)

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others ...

Stranger on the Prowl (1952)

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is ...

Hello Elephant (1952)

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is as ...

Una bruna indiavolata! (1951)

Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride... ...

Beauties in Capri (1951)

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests. ...

Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-i ...

Sambo (1950)

A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall int ...

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. ...

High Time (1950)

The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialist ...

If I Were A Member Of Parliament (1949)

A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that ...

La sposa non può attendere (1949)

On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her. ...

The Flame that Never Dies (1949)

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself. ...

Vent'anni (1949)

Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue. ...

Emigrantes (1948)

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio com ...

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 ...

Christmas at Camp 119 (1947)

Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes ...

How I Lost the War (1947)

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave. ...

Angelina (1947)

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital ...

Flesh Will Surrender (1947)

Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated hims ...

To Live in Peace (1947)

An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hi ...

Rome: Free City (1946)

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his w ...

Professor, My Son (1946)

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles. ...

Partenza ore 7 (1946)

The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home. ...

Rome, Open City (1945)

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape. ...

Life Begins Anew (1945)

A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome ...

The Last Wagon (1943)

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he ...

Gli assi della risata (1943)

An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life. ...

Two Hearts Against the Beast (1943)

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches. ...

L'imprevisto (1940)

Mare (1940)

Montevergine (1939)

A blacksmith from Montevergine, accused of murder, flees to Argentina. Years later, a mute witness testifies to his innocence, leading to his acquittal. Just before returning home, an Argentine woman plants opium in his luggage, resulting in a ten-year pri ...

Il trovatello (1938)

A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind. ...

Beauties in Capri (1951)

The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests. ...