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A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, but in return she must stay away from love. After making the...

genus: Mystery

cast: Lyda Borelli

During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young...

genus: Drama

cast: Amleto Novelli

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s...

genus: Comedy

cast: Vittorio De Sica

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in...

genus: Drama

cast: Gino Cervi

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up...

genus: History

cast: Gianna Maria Canale

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six...

genus: Comedy

cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

genus: Comedy

cast: Vittorio De Sica

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

genus: Crime

cast: Gina Lollobrigida

The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a...

genus: Comedy

cast: Eduardo De Filippo

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their...

genus: Action

cast: Amedeo Nazzari

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

genus: Comedy

cast: Aldo Fabrizi

In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because...

genus: Drama

cast: Piero Pastore

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist...

genus: Romance

cast: Amedeo Nazzari

Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.

genus: Drama

cast: Terence Hill

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle...

genus: Comedy

cast: Elsa Merlini

The public and private life of Eugenio Pacelli, elected Pope Pius XII.

genus: Documentary

cast: Pope Pius XII

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to...

genus: Drama

cast: Giuseppe Gulino

Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the...

genus: Drama

cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist....

genus: Comedy

cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Carpenter Geppetto carves a block of wood into a puppet and names him Pinocchio. As soon as his feet have been made, Pinocchio runs out the door and...

genus: Fantasy

cast: Polidor