Mario Passante Movies

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Quinn

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mario Carotenuto

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city;...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marisa Solinas

Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudio Villa

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Talegalli

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Mangano

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Broderick Crawford

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peppino De Filippo

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giacomo Rondinella

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Taranto

When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Steve Reeves

Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giacomo Rondinella

An aspiring singer is torn between the love for a devious ex-flame, the affection of a simple girl and the loyalty to his paralyzed best friend.

Genre: Music

Cast: Claudio Villa

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonella Lualdi

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylva Koscina

Italy, Sixties. A four-storey beach resort, and they look for the man of their life. Will they succeed?

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sandra Mondaini

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marilù Tolo

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Nova

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg...

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Cast: Henri Salvador

On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Lex Barker

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giulietta Masina

Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peppino De Filippo

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Barbara Steele

A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kerima

After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stewart Granger

Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon. She falls in love with Kir, a fallen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Furneaux

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Manfredi

Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carlo Dapporto

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Arnoul

These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Taranto

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eduardo De Filippo

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Don Megowan

Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Caron

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Borgnine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustavo Rojo

Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nilla Pizzi

The story of an honest young man entangled by a night singer in the Camorra.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maria Fiore

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Cast: Constance Smith

When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. They soon find themselves involved with a beautiful woman who...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eva Bartok