Nino Marchesini

The Hawk of the Caribbean (1962)

In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of ...

The Black Archer (1959)

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father. ...

Knight Without a Country (1959)

Peppino e la vecchia signora (1959)

The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)

A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor. ...

Sing me good morning sadness (1955)

A 1955 film directed by Giorgio Pastina. ...

The Boatman of Amalfi (1954)

"Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and jealousy. A letter from a local priest that implicates "Antonio" in the murder of an English nobleman comes t ...

I cinque dell'Adamello (1954)

The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later. ...

Pilgrim of Love (1954)

In this farce Madame Dalia (Alda Mangini) is a mature countess/pseudo-spiritualist grifter who has rented a villa by the sea and, avoiding police surveillance, runs a clandestine gambling den. In town for a peace conference two suitors, one American and o ...

Jailbirds (1954)

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

Night of Love (1954)

Brigitte Bardot stars in this romantic thriller about love and high treason in WWI-era Italy. Matinee idol-turned-filmmaker Mario Bonnard directs this opus. ...

La campana di San Giusto (1954)

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One. ...

Torna! (1954)

Cousins James and Robert are in love with Susanna. When Robert and Susanna announce their engagement, James vows to ruin their happiness. ...

Trieste cantico d'amore (1954)

After WWII, "Jack Grandi" falls in love with a young girl only to find that there is an historical enmity between his family and her's. Can their love survive the accusations of treason and betrayal? ...

Finalmente libero (1953)

Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years. ...

Vortice (1953)

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Nobody's Children (1951)

The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to their baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: first she sends her son abroad and then has the baby k ...

Figaro qua... Figaro là (1950)

In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden. ...

Totò Looking for Wife (1950)

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married. ...

Paolo e Francesca (1950)

The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensue ...

Chains (1949)

A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover. ...

Il barone Carlo Mazza (1948)

Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, d ...

Lohengrin (1948)

An Italian adaptation of the Richard Wagner opera Lohengrin, where a woman prays for a saviour, and receives it in the form of the title character, a man who will marry her and stay by her if she never asks him his name. ...

The Revenge of Baccarat (1948)

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomp ...

Rocambole (1948)

In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him. ...

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. ...

Enrico IV (1943)

Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943)

A che servono questi quattrini? (1942)

Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life. ...

The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)

Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. ...

Il feroce saladino (1937)