Nicola Maldacea

Il fiore sotto gli occhi (1944)

Il cappello da prete (1944)

The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the b ...

Carmen (1944)

Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera. It was filmed in two versions, French and Italian, with the same screen cast but s ...

Vietato ai minorenni (1944)

Casanova farebbe così! (1942)

A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan. ...

Giorno di nozze (1942)

A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were. ...

La principessa del sogno (1942)

A sweet young woman who's an orphan is enamored with fairy tales and fantasizes that she's really a princess to help her through her life in the orphanage. ...

Una volta alla settimana (1942)

Luck Comes from Heaven (1942)

The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants ...

Arriviamo noi! (1942)

Girl of the Golden West (1942)

Villa da vendere (1941)

Primo amore (1941)

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years. ...

Tosca (1941)

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom. ...

Comedy of Happiness (1940)

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... ...

Il socio invisibile (1939)

Last Desire (1939)

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can ...

Le père Lebonnard (1939)

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for ...

Napoli che non muore (1939)

I figli del marchese Lucera (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 ...

Per uomini soli (1938)

Le due madri (1938)

Napoli d'altri tempi (1938)

Nina, non far la stupida (1938)

Il feroce saladino (1937)

Ho perduto mio marito (1937)

Hands Off Me! (1937)

In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée. ...

30 Seconds of Love (1936)

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance. ...

Re di danari (1936)

L'albero di Adamo (1936)

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