Oreste Fares

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 ...

Cab Number 13 (1948)

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the ...

Un americano in vacanza (1946)

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 ...

The Last Wagon (1943)

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he ...

Miliardi, che follia! (1942)

After his plane makes an emergency landing, a kidnapped millionaire assumes the identity of a poor man. ...

Merchant of Slaves (1942)

Broken Love (1942)

The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health. ...

Girl of the Golden West (1942)

Mamma (1941)

Primo amore (1941)

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

The King's Jester (1941)

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king. ...

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 ...

Mare (1940)

Manon Lescaut (1940)

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America. ...

Beyond Love (1940)

Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanina Vanini and her secret love for the Carbonaro Pietro Mirilli. The latter, given his commitments in the underground struggle, decides to abandon ...

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. ...

Napoli che non muore (1939)

Cavalleria (1936)

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitatio ...

Pensaci, Giacomino! (1936)

Destiny Unknown (1935)

Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are al ...

Il trattato scomparso (1933)

Before the Jury (1931)

During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty ...