Nico Pepe

Matlosa (1981)

A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he ...

It Was I (1973)

A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala. ...

Tre donne - La sciantosa (1971)

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" an ...

War Gods of Babylon (1962)

Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots a ...

Operation Gold Ingot (1962)

The owner of a high-tech heating mechanism is being forced by gangsters to help them in a plot to steal gold ingots. An ex-secret agent is called in to search for him and stop the criminals. ...

Rencontres (1962)

Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is the start of a whirlwind romance which looks like it might last beyond the end of the summer. Unfortunately, Bel ...

The Black Monocle (1961)

The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. ...

Italienisches Capriccio (1961)

Biography of the comic poet Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793). ...

Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960)

King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, ...

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime... ...

Letto a tre piazze (1960)

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands. ...

Signori si nasce (1960)

Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother. ...

Howlers of the Dock (1960)

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring ...

Checkerboard (1959)

In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and ...

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. ...

Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques". ...

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 ...

Caravan of songs (1955)

In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited. ...

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. ...

Sins of Casanova (1954)

1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married. ...

The Count of Bragelonne (1954)

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin. ...

Frisky (1954)

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town. ...

Rosso e nero (1954)

The Three Thieves (1954)

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has wri ...

Jailbirds (1954)

Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison. ...

One Hundred Serenades (1954)

When his girlfriend falls for a rich entrepreneur, an aspiring singer plots with the man's girlfriend so that they can get back their respective partners. ...

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. ...

The Boarder (1954)

A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like ...

Foglio di via (1954)

When young Lucia attempts suicide by jumping from a train, she meets a man to whom she explains what has driven her to this. He, a former doctor, has his own demons and their conversation might just help both to face their future. ...

Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! (1954)

A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents. ...

Frine cortigiana d'Oriente (1953)

Ghost Captain (1953)

A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French. ...

Saluti e baci (1953)

Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones. ...

The Devil's Daughter (1952)

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to ...

Son of the Hunchback (1952)

20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge. ...

Milady and the Musketeers (1952)

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed. ...

Mademoiselle Gobete (1952)

A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before t ...

Delitto al luna park (1952)

Half a Century of Song (1952)

Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled. ...

Greetings and sons! (1951)

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindle ...

Damn the Taxes!! (1951)

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help. ...

Napoleone (1951)

A historical farce about Napoleon. ...

Beauties on bicycles (1951)

Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, i ...

Taxi di notte (1950)

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child. ...

L'inafferrabile 12 (1950)

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery. ...

Streets of Sorrow (1950)

A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love. ...

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 ...

Bitter Rice (1949)

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter ...

Arrivederci, papà! (1948)

Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and mar ...

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 ...

Two Little Orphans (1947)

In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs. ...

The Mascot of the Blue Devils (1947)

An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians. ...

Zazà (1944)

A glamorous female singer Zazà has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne. But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned ...

La contessa Castiglione (1942)

Giarabub (1942)

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

Mamma (1941)

Teresa Venerdì (1941)

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pur ...

La maschera di Cesare Borgia (1941)

Un marito per il mese di aprile (1941)

Confessione (1941)

Capitan Fracassa (1940)

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. ...

The Knight of Kruja (1940)

Young Italian journalist Stefano Andriani travels to Albania, where he falls in love with Eliana, a local girl, and she with him. One day, Andriani comes across the tribal chief Hasslan Haidar, an opponent of King Zog's regime, wounded by the royal guards. ...

Imputato, alzatevi! (1939)

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse. ...

Gli uomini non sono ingrati (1937)

Voglio vivere con Letizia (1937)

Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family. ...