Nino Marchetti

Pinocchio (1972)

The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny we ...

Reverend's Colt (1970)

Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame him fo ...

Granada, addio! (1967)

Mario Valli has a good voice, he is a widow and has a daughter, Paoletta, whom he loves very much. He lives by singing in petty night-clubs. A day arrives when he has his chance: a contract in Madrid. But in Madrid, with his friend Silvio, he finds out tha ...

The Criminals of the Metropolis (1967)

A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve. ...

The Queens (1966)

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler. ...

Spiaggia libera (1966)

Latin Lovers (1965)

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s. ...

These Mad, Mad Women (1964)

Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness. ...

Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors (1964)

Hercules, having agreed to restore justice to Mycenae, confronts evil Prince Myles. The villain is invested with power over giant bronze warriors by his mother Pasiphaë, a sorceress in Hades. Myles assassinates the king and abducts his cousin, Queen Ate, ...

A Queen for Caesar (1962)

Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her. ...

Plains of Battle (1962)

Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks. ...

Totò versus Maciste (1962)

Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun. ...

Le magnifiche 7 (1961)

The Centurion (1961)

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader. ...

Youth at Night (1961)

Elio is a member of a group of youngsters, all from good families, who have fun spending their days taking on silly challenges and perpetrating illicit activities. Their actions escalate and lead them to commit a robbery. Unfortunately, the robbery ends ba ...

Blood Feud (1961)

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money. ...

Lipstick (1960)

A prostitute is robbed and murdered. A fourteen-year-old girl sees a suave gigolo come out of the hotel where the murder occurred. She has a schoolgirl crush on the handsome man though, so instead of reporting the crime she befriends him. ...

The Cossacks (1960)

Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander. ...

La cento chilometri (1959)

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

Desert Desperadoes (1959)

A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly wi ...

Hercules Unchained (1959)

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, politi ...

Herod the Great (1959)

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting. ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to th ...

Il cielo brucia (1958)

La sposa (1958)

Roland the Mighty (1956)

In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots ...

Il prezzo della gloria (1956)

A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs. ...

Cartouche (1955)

The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies. ...

Woman of the River (1954)

When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns h ...

Jailbirds (1954)

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

La campana di San Giusto (1954)

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

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. ...

The Treasure of Bengal (1953)

A fun fantasy classic for the entire family! In this exotic adventure, young hero Ainur played by Sabu is living in a remote Hindu village. There he must protect the town treasure, the world's largest ruby, from being stolen. ...

Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice (1953)

Roberto Biasetti and a friend are unjustly sentenced to sixteen years in prison for murder. The true perpetrator of the crime is a man named Maremmano, who happens to be in the same cell. Released after a partial pardon, he feels indebted to the two men an ...

La trappola di fuoco (1953)

The Overcoat (1952)

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat. ...

Appointment for Murder (1952)

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also. ...

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. ...

The Emperor of Capri (1949)

Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky ser ...

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 ...

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris (1948)

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris. ...

Les Misérables (1948)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

Guarany (1948)

Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda. ...

The Lovers (1946)

After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. ...

Beatrice Cenci (1941)

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci. ...

Luce nelle tenebre (1941)

Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately. ...

Piccolo mondo antico (1941)

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will. ...

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. ...

Department Store (1939)

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place. ...

Tonight at Eleven (1937)

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster. ...

White Squadron (1936)

Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but af ...

Melodramma (1934)