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- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret JohnstonDulcie GrayKieron MooreTwo 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.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsAldo FabriziRoldano LupiYvonne SansonGiovanni 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 man. Giovanni did what he never should have: associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon got hold of Giovanni's money, ruined his career, and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. The marriage was unhappy, but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later, Giulio returns.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAnna MagnaniNando BrunoAve NinchiA 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 it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVivi GioiAndrea ChecchiCarla Del PoggioImmediately 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.
- DirectorGianetto GuardoneStarsAlessandro TommeiMariella LottiVittorio GassmanThe 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 hands of his author and father, starting the pilgrimage through the streets of the world.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAldo FabriziGar MooreMirella MontiThe 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.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsIrasema DiliánAmedeo NazzariVittorio GassmanLiterary adaptation: A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsAmedeo NazzariMariella LottiMario FerrariLuisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsPierre BrasseurSophie DesmaretsRobert ArnouxSir William murders an Earl who left his fortune to his long-lost son.
- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsFosco GiachettiLamberto PicassoMariella LottiWhen a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòCarlo CampaniniIsa BarzizzaIn 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 other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsAldo FabriziVittorio De SicaPeppino De FilippoAfter WW2, a group of Italian soldiers languishing in a California POW camp is nostalgically reminiscing about the happy pre-war years while awaiting repatriation.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsNelly CorradiLoretta Di LelioTito GobbiAn 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.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsAldo FabriziNada FiorelliDante Maggio
- DirectorGiovanni PaolucciStarsMarina BertiVittorio GassmanMassimo GirottiAfter 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 by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself. The girl's relatives hold Anna responsible for the death and are ready to lynch her until Davide intervenes and is able to save her.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesFosco GiachettiMaria DenisBarcelona, 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 family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
- DirectorGiorgio PastinaStarsWalter ChiariLiliana LaineDina Galli
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsGino BechiSilvana PampaniniGino SaltamerendaClaudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsNelly CorradiGino MatteraManfredi PolverosiA courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her.
- DirectorThéophile PathéStarsClaude GéniaAlfred AdamJunie Astor
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsVittorio GassmanSarah ChurchillGino Cervi19th 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.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsAmedeo NazzariMaria MichiMassimo GirottiThe wife of a shipping supervisor is smitten by a tall handsome sailor who works for him.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsFosco GiachettiVera CarmiClelia Matania
- DirectorVictor StoloffStarsDouglass MontgomeryMarina BertiSarah ChurchillA 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.
- DirectorRicardo GascónStarsAmedeo NazzariClara CalamaiMaria EugéniaThe 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.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsMaria DenisGino CerviAndrea Checchi
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsLaura SolariPietro BigernaVirgilio RientoThe 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.
- DirectorGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsTullio CarminatiMassimo SeratoAlfredo VarelliA 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.
- DirectorArmando FizzarottiStarsVera RolAldo Bufi LandiRino GenoveseMaria 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.
- DirectorCarlo BaltieriStarsGiuliano CabbiaDina SassoliNico Pepe
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsEmilio Ghione Jr.Mariella LottiPaolo StoppaA young girl's brother is unfairly accused of murder .A junkie, he is resigned to his fate .She decides to unmask the real culprit.
- DirectorFilippo Walter RattiStarsElisa CeganiRossano BrazziAndrea ChecchiAfter a poor childhood, Eleonora Duse becomes the great actress that the whole world admires.
- DirectorRaffaello PaciniStarsPaola BarbaraRossano BrazziAnna BrandimarteForced 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.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVittorio De SicaFiorella BettiJacqueline PlessisNaples 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.
- DirectorGoffredo AlessandriniStarsIsa PolaRossano BrazziGino CerviMelodrama 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.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsCiro BerardiNino BesozziChecco DuranteA comedy of misunderstandings over soccer pool money.
- DirectorMax CalandriStarsVera BergmanClaudio GoraGuido Celano
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVittorio GassmanDoris DowlingSilvana ManganoTwo criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
- DirectorGregory RatoffOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesNancy GuildAkim TamiroffHypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
- DirectorAnton Gino DomenighiniStarsStefano SibaldiGermana CalderiniGiulio PanicaliPrincess Zeila must choose a prince from among all the princes in Baghdad, despite the evil plotting of Jafar to thwart her hopes.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMassimo GirottiCharles VanelJone SalinasA young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean GabinIsa MirandaVera TalchiA French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsAmedeo NazzariSilvana ManganoJacques SernasReturning 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 Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMichèle MorganHenri VidalMichel SimonIn 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 persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsAmedeo NazzariYvonne SansonAldo NicodemiFirst 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.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDulcie GrayMichael DenisonValentina CorteseAn aspiring composer and pilot is shot down over Italy and rescued by a girl who tells him about a local legend. Returning home to his loving wife, he is inspired to write an opera about the tale, but he longs to meet his rescuer again.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsCarla Del PoggioJacques SernasMario BesestiBerta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsLouis HaywardBinnie BarnesMariella LottiA 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 advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsTotòAlda ManginiLia AmandaBeniamino 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. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but during the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Lastly they find a fine, large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsMártha EggerthJan KiepuraJanis CarterA 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 artistic ideals, and of two of them, Rene and Denise, who love in the face of hardship and tragedy.
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsAldo FiorelliSilvana PampaniniCarlo GiustiniFernando, 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 painter who disappeared at the end of WWI goes to church with her son Fernando to pray to Saint Anthony for his return. After some time, the painter actually does return. Due to a head wound, he had lost his memory and recovered it on the same day his wife had invoked St. Anthony. The family visits St. Anthony's Basilica and purchases a book dedicated to Saint Anthony. The reading recalls the scenes and images in the life of the saint. The story is told entirely in flashbacks, as the adult Fernando recalls scenes from his childhood and, in turn, scenes from the life of the Saint.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòGianna Maria CanaleCarla CalòMobster 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.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsMarcel CerdanFerruccio TagliaviniMischa AuerThree men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsTotòGianni AppeliusGaleazzo BentiBeautiful 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 series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsDanielle DarrieuxJean DesaillyVictor GuyauOnce a lowly chambermaid, Amelie Pochet now revels as the pampered mistress of a military man named Etienne.
- DirectorLuigi CarpentieriLadislao VajdaStarsPhyllis CalvertMichael RennieTullio CarminatiPatricia (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.
- DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsRubi DalmaMichele MalaspinaDomenico Viglione BorgheseIn 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 who offered them board and lodging. Serenelli's 18-year-old son Alessandro is sexually attracted to the pious Maria, who resists his advances. One day the young man murders her because she won't give in to him. Before she dies, Maria forgives her assailant. After her death she is canonized as a saint.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsGino CerviMaria DenisLeonardo CorteseInspired 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.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsGino CerviGina LollobrigidaOdile VersoisDuring 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 convent,where she gives birth to her son. That's an occasion for the man to reflect about his life.
- DirectorEdmond LozziStarsRenato RascelMarilyn BuferdPaolo StoppaFilippo 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 ranch for herself and her father. But the Ester's show arrives in the country and...
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsNino TarantoTotòVanda OsirisIn the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsLuigi TosiBarbara CostanovaGianni RizzoThe 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 communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsItalo TajoNelly CorradiGino MatteraGoethe'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. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsGina LollobrigidaYvonne SansonCarlo RomanoAgostina 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 friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
- DirectorGiorgio PastinaStarsMarina BertiClara CalamaiRoldano LupiA 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 a state of unrest under the French rule of Charles of Anjou. Elena di Paterno is betrothed to Salerno gentleman Giovanni da Procida, but she is being forced by the wishes of King Charles to marry the Governor of Palermo. Giovanni returns from exile and from behind the scenes plans a revolt. Pursued by the Governor's men-at-arms under the command of Captain Droet, Giovanni takes refuge in the home of Tommaso, a miller. Captain Droet, meanwhile, meets Laura, the miller's beautiful daughter, with whom he falls in love. But Laura intends to marry a local fisherman, so with the help of both the Abbott of the Church of the Holy Ghost and the Governor's wife, she seeks to hasten the wedding. To thwart her plans Droet lays a trap for the miller who is arrested as a rebel. Tommaso is then fatally wounded in a battle between the French and the rebels. During the marriage celebrations for Laura and the fisherman, Droet attempts to seize the bride by force, but the groom rushes in to stop him. This is the spark that ignites the fire of revolt and all the people rise up. Giovanni comes down from the mountain with his men. The Governor tries to flee, but Elena calls on the people to smite him, though she herself is struck down with her detested husband. Laura is re-united with her beloved, and Sicily is liberated. By the end of the uprising some eight thousand Frenchmen have been put to death.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsErminio MacarioIsa BarzizzaGianni AgusEva 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.
- DirectorClemente FracassiStarsAmedeo NazzariTamara LeesClara CalamaiDrama 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. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan. The martyr entrusts Lamberti with the task of continuing his work, and the Count decides that this can best be achieved by accepting from the Governor a position of high office. The move is misinterpreted by his wife Countess Anna, a fervent patriot, and she distances herself from her husband. She forms a strong attachment to the Governor's young assistant, an exiled Pole, and decides to elope with him. But Ansperti's widow, Giuditta, realizing that the Countess has misunderstood the situation, persuades her to cancel her plans. As a reprisal for his disappointment the assistant denounces the Count to the authorities. In an effort to suppress the scandal the Governor offers Count Lamberti safe passage to Turin. Lamberti pretends to accept, but then hands over the safe passage to his nephew Giacomino. Seriously compromised, the Count gives himself up to the police.
- DirectorLuigi CapuanoStarsElli ParvoPiero LulliFolco Lulli
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsGianna PederziniVittorina ColonnelloGino SinimberghiAzucena, 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.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsMarina BertiAndrea ChecchiVivi GioiAfter 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 Arie', a member of the Haganah. In Palestine, the extremist Jews of the Irgoun wage a ruthless guerrilla against the British. One of the most active anti-English activists is David Traumen, the professor's own son, engaged to Dina. David now lives with Judith, another fanatic, devoted body and soul to the independence of the future Israel. Informed about the coming of his father, whom he did not hope to see any more, David meets him at the kibbutz housing the refugees. The unexpected presence of Dina upsets him beyond words. He also finds back Arie', with whom he fought in the Allied Army but he soon finds himself quarreling with him : one supports the moderate principles of the Haganah whereas the other advocates terrorism. In the meantime, an English detachment on hunt for the illegal immigrants surrounds the kibbutz. The surgeon and Dina manage to escape but the following day David, who has perpetrated an attack against the British headquarter, is taken prisoner. In reprisal, the men of his group capture George Birkmore, an English lieutenant who happens to have been another brother-in-arms of David and Arie'. Both men are executed. Work resumes at the kibbutz but Arie', Taumen and Dina feel helpless and grieved...
- DirectorDomenico GambinoStarsPaola BarbaraMaria D'AyalaVittorio DuseFrancisco, 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 will come back and marry her. Incredibly enough however Lucia's father is in prison because he killed Francisco's uncle in a row twenty years before and the wedding seems doomed to fall through...
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsGino BechiAntonella LualdiAroldo TieriTwo 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.
- DirectorNino PagotStarsAldo SilvaniIn 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.