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- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMarcello SpadaVasco CretiDria PaolaAnticipating the neo realism of over a decade later, Sole uses real locations and non professional actors to dramatize a Mussolini project: to reclaim malarial swamp south of Rome and turn it into farmland and housing.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsEttore PetroliniElma KrimerGrazia del RioDepictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsLeda GloriaSandro SalviniIsa PolaA young aristocrat, planning to spend more time in town, returns to his farmland to sell out to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who worked for him.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsLia FrancaDaniele CrespiFlorica AlexandrescoA famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsLeda GloriaLaura NucciGuido CelanoDuring the traditional Siena celebration of the Palio, jockeys from different neighborhoods compete in the culminating horse race in the town square and vie with each other for the local women.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsRaffaele VivianiLeda GloriaSalvatore CostaMarquis Fusaro is a Napoletan nobleman and a chairman of the charity organization which helps the poor. But unbeknownst to his rich friends he himself is also completely broke and has to sell all the valuables from his apartment in order to survive. One day a beggar asks Marquis to safekeep all the money he made through begging in 30 years for him, but when Marquis' friends arrive for a visit they see the beggar's money on Marquis' table and think this money is Marquis' donation to their charity organization and take it. Marquis now has to find a quick way to get 7.500 liras and return them to the beggar.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMemo BenassiElsa De GiorgiMaria DenisA shoemaker escapes his unfaithful wife by going to the countryside, where he is mistaken for an actor/magician and meets the daughter of his mentor.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMarta AbbaMemo BenassiCamillo PilottoPsychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGianfranco GiachettiMino DoroFranco BrambillaThe film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGiuseppe GulinoAida BelliaGianfranco GiachettiThe story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviEvi MaltagliatiGianfranco GiachettiCorrado Valeri, naval officer, has a wife who is a bit frivolous while he is a bit too jealous. This situation has repercussions on his military life with continuous failures.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiAntonio CentaMaria DenisAn elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviMario FerrariElisa CeganiNationalistic, romantic war film glorifying the role played by a group of Italian mercenaries fighting on the side of the Spanish who were battling the French for control of the peninsula during the Renaissance.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsFilippo RomitoElisa CeganiCamillo PilottoA lady pianist and a baritone squabble,meeting on a ship and before Milan shows. After a rude response by critics and an audience claque, the singer makes a hit pretending to be a Russian artist and the couple find romance.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviLuisa FeridaRina MorelliGino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, and Osvaldo Valenti star in this Italian swashbuckler which would have starred Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks had it been made in Hollywood. Salvatore Rosa was a versatile poet and painter of landscapes and battles. His romantic life is the inspiration for this fictional tale of the masked hero, "The Ant", Rosa's alter-ego, a friend and defender of the poor citizens...
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiLuisa FeridaRina MorelliA crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsAmedeo NazzariOsvaldo ValentiClara CalamaiThis is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano . The story is set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de'Medici recounts the rivalry between Gianneto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva and Gianneto's thirst for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabreillo. The joke ultimately takes Neri to murder Ginerva and by mistake his brother. The opera ends with Neri descent into madness.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviAdriana BenettiGiuditta RissoneA 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 troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiValentina CorteseMaria DenisSeven young women in a boarding house in Rome during WWII: their aspirations and future hopes.Several keep memories of soldiers who are no longer alive, while others find new loves: a professor, an industrialist, a blind man.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiMassimo GirottiMariella LottiSome Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
- 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.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsAldo FabriziGaby MorlayLudmilla DudarovaThe daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsAldo FabriziPina RenziEnzo StaiolaA number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiPaul PaviotStarsVittorio De SicaDany RobinFrançois PérierA five-part compilation film. In "The Baby," a poverty-ridden couple with children decides that their newborn is too much and decide to leave him in a church, but the mother can't go through with it and decides to leave him in an expensive car; the father cannot go through with that and they take him back home. "The Hand of Providence": An old woman has been brooding for many years while the parish priest has been urging her to unburden herself by telling him all. She tells him that her life seems pointless and that she is thinking of suicide. Trying to dissuade her, the priest trips and falls over the edge of a cliff and saves himself by grasping a hanging bush. This convinces the woman that God holds life precious and she shouldn't give up hers. "On Location": An elderly actor and actress get parts in a film being shot on location and discover that they are old friends. They both confess to being lonely, and while rehearsing their scenes they decide that a future together would be most desirable. They drive off and leave the director needing two actors. "The Amorous Bus Driver": A Neapolitan bus driver does not let company regulations interfere with romance. "The Camera": A woman is after a camera offered as a prize on a chance-board. A man is after her. He borrows the camera to shoot some posed shots with her, but can't make the timer work.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsVittorio De SicaSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniA kind-hearted taxi driver runs into a glamorous girl and falls in love with her, but she turns out to be a cheap thief.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsSophia LorenCharles BoyerMarcello MastroianniA photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsVittorio De SicaGino CerviCarla GravinaAn industrialist tries to corrupt the deputy mayor by exploiting his oratory vanity, to prevent the panoramic view of his villa from being disfigured by a hospice.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsUgo TognazziGiovanna RalliPierre BrasseurLiolà is a single father of three children, a free spirit wandering from city to city without wanting to commit to anyone.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGina LollobrigidaSilvana ManganoWalter ChiariSandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. But little by little Sandro identifies himself with the people he meets and the accusation against mankind changes into a confession to himself. And, after the death of his true friend Peppino Marazzi and a conversation with Silvia, Sandro begins to consider again his own life.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMaximilian SchellRosanna SchiaffinoFrancisco RabalHistorical drama about Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar who helped much of Latin America to achieve independence from Spain.