Nino Pavese

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. ...

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 ...

La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona (1969)

Ten Italians for One German (1961)

A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt. ...

I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution. ...

Non perdiamo la testa (1959)

A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain. ...

Phaedra (1957)

Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV. ...

Piccola santa (1954)

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. ...

Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome. ...

Serenata amara (1952)

Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner. ...

Il tallone di Achille (1952)

Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal. ...

Lieutenant Giorgio (1952)

A lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. ...

La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there. ...

The Last Sentence (1951)

Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate. ...

Ours are coming (1951)

A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right. ...

Outlaw Girl (1950)

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts do ...

The Mill on the Po (1949)

In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé's relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy. ...

The Za-Bum Circus (1949)

Anthology comedy/romance film ...

Come scopersi l'America (1949)

Il Tiranno di Padova (1946)

Padua, 1540. Angelo is married to Caterina but has an affair with Tisbe, an actress who travels with Rodolfo, presented as her brother but actually her lover and also Caterina's first and true love. Tisbe is also searching for the daughter of the woman who ...

La gondola del diavolo (1946)

In the Venetian Republic a series of murders are carried out by a hooded man in black who always makes his escape through the city's waterways on a gondola. ...

Pian delle stelle (1946)

Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans. ...

Fear No Evil (1945)

The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism. ...

Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943)

La valle del diavolo (1943)

Tempesta sul golfo (1943)

Il nostro prossimo (1943)

Il fanciullo del West (1942)

Comedy Western ...

Labbra serrate (1942)

I pirati della Malesia (1941)

Non me lo dire! (1940)

Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire. ...

La fanciulla di Portici (1940)

During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him ...

Il pirata sono io! (1940)

In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them b ...

Les Réprouvés (1937)

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy. ...