Italy 1947

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1. A Man About the House (1947)

99 min | Drama

Two poor sisters inherit a giant villa from their uncle, along with his custodian Salvatore who charms his way into their lives and marries one of them.

Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Johnston, Dulcie Gray, Kieron Moore, Guy Middleton

Votes: 293

2. Flesh Will Surrender (1947)

96 min | Drama

Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk, but his life was turned upside-down when he met Giulio. a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the overconfident... See full summary »

Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Roldano Lupi, Yvonne Sanson, Ave Ninchi

Votes: 266

3. Angelina (1947)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante

Votes: 551

4. Tragic Hunt (1947)

89 min | Action, Drama

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Vittorio Duse

Votes: 266

5. Le avventure di Pinocchio (1947)

100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The most faithful adaptation of Carlo Collodi's renowned fairy tale. After the spirit of Pinocchio miraculously comes to life under Geppetto's hand plane, the puppet frees himself from the ... See full summary »

Director: Gianetto Guardone | Stars: Alessandro Tommei, Mariella Lotti, Vittorio Gassman, Erminio Spalla

Votes: 64

6. To Live in Peace (1947)

90 min | Drama, War, Comedy

The peaceful, almost idyllic life of an Italian village is interrupted during the war by the appearance of two American soldiers who keep hiding in the house of one of the villagers.

Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller

Votes: 247 | Gross: $2.20M

7. La figlia del capitano (1947)

102 min | Adventure

Literary adaptation: A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Irasema Dilián, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman, Cesare Danova

Votes: 54

8. Life of Donizetti (1947)

99 min | Drama, Romance

Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Mariella Lotti, Mario Ferrari, Dina Sassoli

Votes: 21

9. Rocambole (1947)

105 min | Drama

Sir William murders an Earl who left his fortune to his long-lost son.

Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Sophie Desmarets, Robert Arnoux, Loredana

Votes: 29

10. I fratelli Karamazoff (1947)

116 min | Drama

When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.

Director: Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Lamberto Picasso, Mariella Lotti, Elli Parvo

Votes: 19

11. I due orfanelli (1947)

90 min | Comedy

In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, Carlo Campanini, Isa Barzizza, Nerio Bernardi

Votes: 165

12. Natale al campo 119 (1947)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, War

After WW2, a group of Italian soldiers languishing in a California POW camp is nostalgically reminiscing about the happy pre-war years while awaiting repatriation.

Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica, Peppino De Filippo, Massimo Girotti

Votes: 64

13. Elixir of Love (1947)

75 min | Musical

An aging quack who promotes a love potion revisits a village, where a youth recalls to him in flashback how he had brought the lad's parents together years before.

Director: Mario Costa | Stars: Nelly Corradi, Loretta Di Lelio, Tito Gobbi, Gino Sinimberghi

Votes: 43

15. Shamed (1947)

85 min | Drama

After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco's other girl, Tea, takes revenge ... See full summary »

Director: Giovanni Paolucci | Stars: Marina Berti, Vittorio Gassman, Massimo Girotti, Maria Michi

Votes: 16

18. Nada (1947)

76 min | Drama

Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other ... See full summary »

Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Conchita Montes, Fosco Giachetti, Maria Denis, María Cañete

Votes: 165

20. When Love Calls (1947)

106 min | Drama

Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Gino Bechi, Silvana Pampanini, Gino Saltamerenda, Liliana Laine

22. The Lost One (1947)

90 min | Drama, Musical

A courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her.

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Nelly Corradi, Gino Mattera, Manfredi Polverosi, Flora Marino

Votes: 10

24. Daniele Cortis (1947)

95 min | Drama

19th century historical romance: A noblewoman has more of a relationship with her idealistic and spiritually minded young male cousin than she does with the baron she is married to, a man who fails to understand her.

Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill, Gino Cervi, Evi Maltagliati

25. Fatalità (1947)

78 min | Drama

The wife of a shipping supervisor is smitten by a tall handsome sailor who works for him.

Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Michi, Massimo Girotti, Tanino Chiurazzi

Votes: 35

29. Sinfonia fatale (1947)

91 min | Drama, Romance, War

A young American composer separates from his wife, and moves to Rome. Soon, he falls for Mirella, a beautiful girl in that country. As his work and relationship progress, the dangers of war arise.

Director: Victor Stoloff | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Marina Berti, Sarah Churchill, Tullio Carminati

Votes: 8

30. Cuando los ángeles duermen (1947)

105 min | Drama

The rise of a poor and ambitious man from country to city and a directive position and the consequences in his entourage of his end-means-all policy.

Director: Ricardo Gascón | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai, Maria Eugénia, Silvia Morgan

Votes: 9

34. Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone (1947)

90 min | Comedy, Musical

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Laura Solari, Pietro Bigerna, Virgilio Riento, Maria Caniglia

Votes: 24

36. L'apocalisse (1947)

90 min | Drama

A historical illustration of the prophetic vision of St. John the Evangelist. A few decades after the edict of Constantine, Julian the Apostate reestablishes pagan worship and persecutes Christians; but divine punishment reaches him.

Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Stars: Tullio Carminati, Massimo Serato, Alfredo Varelli, Vera Bergman

37. Malaspina (1947)

90 min

Maria swears eternal love to Andrea before he leaves for the war. She then takes up with Gaetano a smuggler and becomes a prostitute. When Andrea comes back he kills his rival while Maria understands the evil she did and becomes a nun.

Director: Armando Fizzarotti | Stars: Vera Rol, Aldo Bufi Landi, Rino Genovese, Ugo D'Alessio

42. La fumeria d'oppio (1947)

88 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A young girl's brother is unfairly accused of murder .A junkie, he is resigned to his fate .She decides to unmask the real culprit.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, Paolo Stoppa, Emilio Cigoli

Votes: 89

43. Eleonora Duse (1947)

90 min | Biography, Drama

After a poor childhood, Eleonora Duse becomes the great actress that the whole world admires.

Director: Filippo Walter Ratti | Stars: Elisa Cegani, Rossano Brazzi, Andrea Checchi, Giovanni Grasso

46. La monaca di Monza (1947)

94 min | Drama

Forced to become a nun, Gertrude soon falls for Count Egidio, an audacious criminal man. Her brother faces him in a duel but loses face. The Count convinces his mistress to travel to Rome but they are stopped in Florence when discovered.

Director: Raffaello Pacini | Stars: Paola Barbara, Rossano Brazzi, Anna Brandimarte, Carlo Tamberlani

47. Lost in the Dark (1947)

93 min | Drama

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Fiorella Betti, Jacqueline Plessis, Enrico Glori

Votes: 10

48. Furia (1947)

94 min | Drama

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.

Director: Goffredo Alessandrini | Stars: Isa Pola, Rossano Brazzi, Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti

Votes: 11

49. Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)

91 min

A comedy of misunderstandings over soccer pool money.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Ciro Berardi, Nino Besozzi, Checco Durante, Chiaretta Gelli

57. Bitter Rice (1949)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone

Votes: 4,875

58. Black Magic (1949)

Passed | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore

Votes: 1,465

59. The Singing Princess (1949)

76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

Princess Zeila must choose a prince from among all the princes in Baghdad, despite the evil plotting of Jafar to thwart her hopes.

Director: Anton Gino Domenighini | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Germana Calderini, Giulio Panicali, Olinto Cristina

Votes: 295

60. In the Name of the Law (1949)

100 min | Crime, Drama

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.

Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Massimo Girotti, Charles Vanel, Jone Salinas, Camillo Mastrocinque

Votes: 711

61. The Walls of Malapaga (1949)

89 min | Drama, Romance

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi

Votes: 992

62. Lure of the Sila (1949)

75 min | Drama

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to ... See full summary »

Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Mangano, Jacques Sernas, Luisa Rossi

Votes: 133

63. Fabiola (1949)

96 min | Drama, History

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the ... See full summary »

Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel Simon, Louis Salou

Votes: 253

64. Chains (1949)

74 min | Crime, Drama

First in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children ,is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi, Roberto Murolo

Votes: 470

65. The Glass Mountain (1949)

99 min | Drama

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.

Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Valentina Cortese, Sebastian Shaw

Votes: 304

66. The Mill on the Po (1949)

96 min | Drama, History

Berta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni.

Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas, Mario Besesti, Giulio Calì

Votes: 261

67. The Pirates of Capri (1949)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Action, Drama

A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is ... See full summary »

Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Stars: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Mariella Lotti, Massimo Serato

Votes: 224

68. Totò cerca casa (1949)

79 min | Comedy

Beniamino and his family have lived in a school since the end of World War II, but five years have passed and they are compelled to move, but finding an apartment in Rome is difficult. ... See full summary »

Directors: Mario Monicelli, Steno | Stars: Totò, Alda Mangini, Lia Amanda, Mario Gattari

Votes: 522

69. Addio Mimí! (1949)

Approved | 92 min | Drama

A modern adaptation of Puccini's opera La Boheme, this is the story of a group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians who struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their ... See full summary »

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, Janis Carter, John Abbott

70. Anthony of Padua (1949)

78 min | Drama

Fernando, a boy growing up in 1920's Italy, is inspired by reading a biography of Saint Anthony of Padua (after whom the city of San Antonio, Texas is named.) The wife of a young Roman ... See full summary »

Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Aldo Fiorelli, Silvana Pampanini, Carlo Giustini, Alberto Pomerani

Votes: 20

71. Totò le moko (1949)

80 min | Comedy

Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.

Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Totò, Gianna Maria Canale, Carla Calò, Franca Marzi

Votes: 526

72. Fame and the Devil (1949)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.

Directors: Mario Monicelli, Steno | Stars: Marcel Cerdan, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Mischa Auer, Marilyn Buferd

Votes: 118

73. L'imperatore di Capri (1949)

86 min | Comedy

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Totò, Gianni Appelius, Galeazzo Benti, Nerio Bernardi

Votes: 262

74. Occupe-toi d'Amélie..! (1949)

92 min | Comedy

Once a lowly chambermaid, Amelie Pochet now revels as the pampered mistress of a military man named Etienne.

Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Victor Guyau, Grégoire Aslan

Votes: 239

75. The Golden Madonna (1949)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

Patricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. She goes to great lengths in her attempts to locate it again and bring it back.

Directors: Luigi Carpentieri, Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, Tullio Carminati, David Greene

Votes: 73

76. Cielo sulla palude (1949)

111 min | Biography, Drama

In 1902 in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region, 12-year-old Maria Goretti lives with her parents, poor farmhands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy-drinking farmer ... See full summary »

Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Rubi Dalma, Michele Malaspina, Domenico Viglione Borghese, Ines Orsini

Votes: 145

77. Fiamma che non si spegne (1949)

95 min | Drama, War

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.

Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Gino Cervi, Maria Denis, Leonardo Cortese, Luigi Tosi

Votes: 63

78. La sposa non può attendere (1949)

76 min | Comedy

During his wedding day, a man, while is driving to the church for the ceremony, saves a woman from a suicide. The woman is pregnant and she's alone; the man carries her to a cloistered ... See full summary »

Director: Gianni Franciolini | Stars: Gino Cervi, Gina Lollobrigida, Odile Versois, Giacomo Furia

Votes: 38

79. Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba! (1949)

103 min | Comedy, Musical

Filippo De Bellis is in love with a showgirl, Ester. But he must go to his uncle's ranch and leave her. In his ranch Filippo becames a pray for Corinna, who wants to marry him and have the ... See full summary »

Director: Edmond Lozzi | Stars: Renato Rascel, Marilyn Buferd, Paolo Stoppa, Aristide Baghetti

Votes: 11

80. I pompieri di Viggiù (1949)

84 min | Comedy, Musical

In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.

Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Nino Taranto, Totò, Vanda Osiris, Carlo Dapporto

Votes: 116

81. La città dolente (1949)

110 min | Drama

The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Luigi Tosi, Barbara Costanova, Gianni Rizzo, Elio Steiner

Votes: 127

82. Faust and the Devil (1949)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Musical

Goethe's drama about Faust, a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure... See full summary »

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Italo Tajo, Nelly Corradi, Gino Mattera, Onelia Fineschi

Votes: 37

83. Campane a martello (1949)

109 min | Drama

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano, Carlo Giustini

Votes: 139

84. Vespro siciliano (1949)

91 min | Drama

A story from the historic uprising of 1282 known as the War of the Sicilian Vespers (since it began during the evening prayer service of vespers on Easter Monday of that year). Sicily is in... See full summary »

Director: Giorgio Pastina | Stars: Marina Berti, Clara Calamai, Roldano Lupi, Ermanno Randi

Votes: 13

86. Adam and Eve (1949)

87 min | Comedy

Eva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her.

Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Erminio Macario, Isa Barzizza, Gianni Agus, Guglielmo Barnabò

Votes: 26

87. Romanticismo (1949)

73 min | Drama, History, Romance

Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. ... See full summary »

Director: Clemente Fracassi | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Tamara Lees, Clara Calamai, Nyta Dover

90. Il trovatore (1949)

102 min | Musical

Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Gianna Pederzini, Vittorina Colonnello, Gino Sinimberghi, Enzo Mascherini

Votes: 43

92. The Earth Cries Out (1949)

90 min | Drama, War

After having been interned in a concentration camp by the Nazis, Professor Taumen, a Jewish surgeon, and his future daughter-in-law leave Italy for Palestine. Once there they are guided by ... See full summary »

Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Marina Berti, Andrea Checchi, Vivi Gioi, Carlo Ninchi

Votes: 68

96. Torna a Napoli (1949)

Drama

Francisco, a Brazilian son of Italian immigrants, is saved from drowning by Lucia, a Neapolitan girl and falls in love with her. Francisco has to go back to Brasil but promises Lucia he ... See full summary »

Director: Domenico Gambino | Stars: Paola Barbara, Maria D'Ayala, Vittorio Duse, Giacomo Gambino

Votes: 10

98. Signorinella (1949)

85 min | Comedy, Musical

Two young scoundrels steal a car of the latest fashion and flee to the mountains of Abruzzo. They meet and help a girl named Maria who feels bad.

Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Gino Bechi, Antonella Lualdi, Aroldo Tieri, Ave Ninchi

Votes: 20

99. The Dynamite Brothers (1949)

85 min | Animation

In this Italian attempt to rival Disney's features, 3 brothers have adventures at school, on a deserted island, as concert performers, and in the most acclaimed episode, at carnival time in Venice.

Director: Nino Pagot | Star: Aldo Silvani

Votes: 49



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