Arturo Bragaglia

Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he...

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

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.

A young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an...

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.

A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day,...

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...

Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves...

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved...

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...

On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by...

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover....

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight...

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst...

The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes...

A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to...

The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the...

A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with...

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young...

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.

The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.

Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy...

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain...

Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to...

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.

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,...

On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling...

A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell...

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of...

A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.

Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice...

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When...

Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.

1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they...

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.

Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and...

In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.

Two young men love the same girl and decide to fight for her. The winner realizes, however, that his feelings are not returned.

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò,...

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer...

Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if...

A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.

An Italian drama from 1942.

Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious...

This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the...

When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real...

A young girl finds out that her father, an impoverished Baron, actually works as a stage actor.

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself....

Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of...

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft...

Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised...

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.

A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is...

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.

A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending...

Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero...

A group of schoolgirls find shelter in an old castle during a rainstorm.