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Mamma (1941)

Cantate con me! (1940)

A famous tenor has a car accident and asks the owner of a pharmacy for hospitality. The pharmacist's wife is fascinated by the singer and follows him to Rome. Hovewer, she is sent back home. ...

Mare (1940)

An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939)

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country. ...

L'eredità in corsa (1939)

Retroscena (1939)

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while ...

Il segreto inviolabile (1939)

La mia canzone al vento (1939)

Papà per una notte (1939)

The Cuckoo Clock (1938)

The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock. ...

Il conte di Bréchard (1938)

Nina, non far la stupida (1938)

I fratelli Castiglioni (1937)

La danza delle lancette (1936)

Nozze vagabonde (1936)

But It's Nothing Serious (1936)

Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more ap ...

Musica in piazza (1936)

The Two Sergeants (1936)

Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason. ...

Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they ...

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 ...

The Serpent's Fang (1935)

Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls. ...

Quei due (1935)

Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos. ...

Seconda B (1934)

A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship. ...

Old Guard (1934)

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the ...

Oggi sposi (1934)

Tenebre (1934)

Lisetta (1933)

Una notte con te (1932)

Cercasi modella (1932)

Palio (1932)

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past off ...

The Old Lady (1932)

An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings. ...

Figaro and His Great Day (1931)

In this delightful mixture of romance, comedy and music, the director turns back the wheel of time about sixty years and shows the audience an Italy of primitive railroads, high bicycles and the famous "dolce far niente." Taking the visit of a traveling op ...