Italian Cinema
by erasmo-demeo | created - 14 Apr 2013 | updated - 05 Jan 2017 | PublicNotable Italian movies mostly according to Brunetta's "Italian Cinema History"
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1. La presa di Roma (20 settembre 1870) (1905)
6 min | Short, Drama
The Italian army captures Rome after refusal to surrender this unifying Italy.
Director: Filoteo Alberini | Stars: Ubaldo Maria Del Colle, Carlo Rosaspina
Votes: 363
3. Effetti di luce (1916)
45 min
Directors: Ugo Falena, Ercole Luigi Morselli | Stars: Stacia Napierkowska, Rodope Furlan, Guido Graziosi, Raffaello Mariani
5. The Garibaldi Boy (1909)
12 min | Drama, Short
Stars: Maria Caserini, Mario Caserini, Gemma De Ferrari
Votes: 54
6. Venetian Baker; or, Drama of Justice (1907)
Short
Director: Mario Caserini | Stars: Ubaldo Maria Del Colle, Fernanda Negri Pouget
8. Otello (II) (1909)
Short, Drama
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Director: Enrico Novelli
9. Grenadier Roland (1911)
10 min | Short, Drama
This film shows the realistic battle scenes of the Siege of Moscow, with the sensational defeat of Napoleon, with the belching cannon, the battling soldiers, scenes of heroism and daring reproduced in the most exquisite photography.
Director: Luigi Maggi | Stars: Arrigo Frusta, Alberto Capozzi, Mary Cleo Tarlarini, Giuseppe Gray
10. The Golden Wedding (1911)
21 min | Short, Drama
During the celebration of his golden wedding anniversary he, a former officer of the Italian army evokes the battle of Palestro in 1859 where he met his future wife.
Directors: Arturo Ambrosio, Luigi Maggi | Stars: Alberto Capozzi, Mary Cleo Tarlarini, Mario Voller-Buzzi, Luigi Maggi
Votes: 37
11. Marin Faliero doge di Venezia (1909)
Director: Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Giuseppe de Liguoro, Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano
Votes: 18
12. Nero. Or the Fall of Rome. (1909)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama
Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace.
Directors: Arturo Ambrosio, Luigi Maggi | Stars: Alberto Capozzi, Lydia De Roberti, Mirra Principi, Luigi Maggi
Votes: 544
13. The Fall of Troy (1911)
28 min | Short, War
One of the first epics on the History of Movies, it tells the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris seduces Helen, queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, city state of his father, King Priam. ... See full summary »
Directors: Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Giovanni Casaleggio, Madame Davesnes, Emilio Gallo
Votes: 323
14. Homer's Odyssey (1911)
44 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Adolfo Padovan | Stars: Giuseppe de Liguoro, Eugenia Tettoni Fior, Ubaldo Maria Del Colle
Votes: 192
15. Dante's Inferno (1911)
71 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne
Votes: 3,456
16. Quo Vadis? (1913)
120 min | Drama, History
An epic Italian film, "Quo Vadis" influenced many of the later movies.
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Amleto Novelli, Gustavo Serena, Carlo Cattaneo, Amelia Cattaneo
Votes: 441
17. Julius Caesar (1914)
112 min | Drama, History
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Amleto Novelli, Bruto Castellani, Irene Mattalia, Ignazio Lupi
Votes: 67
18. The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
88 min | Adventure, Drama
Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.
Directors: Mario Caserini, Eleuterio Rodolfi | Stars: Fernanda Negri Pouget, Eugenia Tettoni Fior, Ubaldo Stefani, Antonio Grisanti
Votes: 623
19. Cabiria (1914)
Not Rated | 148 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano, Carolina Catena
Votes: 3,960
20. Christus (1916)
88 min | Drama
The story of the life of Christ.
Director: Giulio Antamoro | Stars: Alberto Pasquali, Amleto Novelli, Leda Gys, Augusto Mastripietri
Votes: 83
21. La Gerusalemme liberata (1918)
Drama, History
Adaptation of an epic poem by Torquato Tasso from 1581 in the late Renaissance, which tells of Christian knights battling Muslims during the First Crusade of 1096 in the Middle Ages, to retake the holy city of Jerusalem.
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Amleto Novelli, Edy Darclea, Olga Benetti, Elena Sangro
Votes: 20
22. La paura degli aeromobili nemici (1915)
15 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
Director: André Deed | Stars: André Deed, Leonie Laporte, Domenico Gambino, Felice Minotti
Votes: 31
23. How Foolshead Paid His Debts (1909)
7 min | Comedy, Short
Director: André Deed | Star: André Deed
Votes: 58
24. The Mechanical Man (1921)
80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.
Director: André Deed | Stars: Giulia Costa, André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli, Mathilde Lambert
Votes: 283
27. Kri-Kri fuma l'oppio (1913)
5 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Raymond Dandy | Star: Raymond Dandy
Votes: 17
28. Pinocchio (1911)
50 min | Fantasy
The old carpenter Geppeto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, ... See full summary »
Director: Giulio Antamoro | Stars: Polidor, Augusto Mastripietri, Natalino Guillaume, Lea Giunchi
Votes: 217
29. The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)
77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Episode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Marcel Perez, Luigi Maggi | Stars: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Alfredo Bertone, Filippo Castamagna
Votes: 215
30. Tweedledum, Aviator (1911)
6 min | Short, Comedy
Tweedledum builds an airship and makes a flight. Chimneys are tumbled down, the fragments striking pedestrians in the street, buildings are wrecked, and finally the machine collapses. His ... See full summary »
Star: Marcel Perez
Votes: 62
31. Love Everlasting (1914)
90 min | Drama
Leslie Swayne, an adventurer, in order to obtain enough money to satisfy the needs of his extravagant life, has been bribed to steal the plans of the fortification from the staff officers ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Caserini | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Mario Bonnard, Gian Paolo Rosmino, Vittorio Rossi Pianelli
Votes: 152
32. Fregoli dietro le quinte (1903)
Short, Comedy
Director: Leopoldo Fregoli | Star: Leopoldo Fregoli
Votes: 11
33. Satan's Rhapsody (1917)
55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.
Director: Nino Oxilia | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini, Giovanni Cini
Votes: 844
34. Tigre reale (1916)
80 min | Drama
Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Pina Menichelli, Alberto Nepoti, Febo Mari, Valentina Frascaroli
Votes: 132
35. Odette (1916)
Drama
Director: Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Francesca Bertini, Alfredo De Antoni, Carlo Benetti, Olga Benetti
36. Maddalena Ferat (1920)
52 min | Drama
Madeleine is a beautiful married woman, hopelessly attracted to her former lover, Jacques. This obsession leads to the destruction of her life and eventually drives her to suicide, while her husband goes insane.
Directors: Febo Mari, Roberto Roberti | Stars: Francesca Bertini, Giorgio Bonaiti, Achille De Riso, Giovanni Gizzi
37. Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916)
45 min | Drama
Mario, an unknown painter, remains struck and obsessed with meeting a famous poet, already married, who will be able to charm him, so that he will no longer have the talent created to be able to paint.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Pina Menichelli, Febo Mari
Votes: 152
38. Thais (II) (1917)
70 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A silent film about a women who seduces a married man which in turn leads to deadly consequences.
Director: Anton Giulio Bragaglia | Stars: Augusto Bandini, Alberto Casanova, ThaĂŻs Galitzky, Ileana Leonidoff
Votes: 209
39. Thais (II) (1917)
70 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A silent film about a women who seduces a married man which in turn leads to deadly consequences.
Director: Anton Giulio Bragaglia | Stars: Augusto Bandini, Alberto Casanova, ThaĂŻs Galitzky, Ileana Leonidoff
Votes: 209
40. Perfido incanto (1918)
Director: Anton Giulio Bragaglia | Stars: Renée Avril, Nello Carotenuto, Giovanni Cimara, Thaïs Galitzky
41. Camille (I) (1915)
Drama
Marguerite Gauthier, known as Camille, is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a ... See full summary »
Director: Baldassarre Negroni | Stars: Hesperia, Alberto Collo, Ida Carloni Talli, Alfonso Cassini
Votes: 18
42. Malombra (1917)
75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Amleto Novelli, Augusto Mastripietri, Amedeo Ciaffi
Votes: 143
43. Cenere (1917)
30 min | Short, Drama
Set in Sardinia, a barren and disconsolate land, where Rosalia, a poor young mother, entrusts her only son, Anania, to the natural father, who is well-off and already married. The years ... See full summary »
Directors: Febo Mari, Arturo Ambrosio | Stars: Eleonora Duse, Febo Mari, Nietta Mordeglia, Ettore Casarotti
Votes: 203
44. Assunta Spina (1915)
72 min | Drama
Assunta Spina is a tragedy set in Naples at the beginning of the twentieth century. Assunta and Michele are in love but others come between them and there is much jealousy. They fight and ... See full summary »
Directors: Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena | Stars: Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena, Carlo Benetti, Luciano Albertini
Votes: 492
45. La serpe (1920)
The dramatic events of the composer Mario Sirchi, falsely accused of murder, and his girlfriend Adonella who is revealed to have a secret sister: Nayda.
Director: Roberto Roberti | Stars: Francesca Bertini, Vittorio Bianchi, Luigi Cigoli, Emma Farnesi
46. La storia di una donna (1920)
70 min
Director: Eugenio Perego | Stars: Pina Menichelli, Luigi Serventi, Livio Pavanelli
Votes: 32
47. La donna nuda (1922)
68 min | Drama
The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her.
Director: Roberto Roberti | Stars: Francesca Bertini, Angelo Ferrari, Franco Gennaro, Iole Gerli
48. Il Fauno (1917)
73 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A sculptor leaves his model alone in his atelier. After initially being afraid of being alone in the atelier, the model falls asleep. In her dreams, the faun statue that is also present in the atelier comes to life. The two fall in love.
Director: Febo Mari | Stars: Nietta Mordeglia, Vasco Creti, Febo Mari, Helena Makowska
Votes: 93
49. Fior di male (1915)
62 min | Drama
Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and once born the child abandons her.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Cecyl Tryan, Fulvia Perini, Augusto Poggioli
Votes: 56
50. Addio giovinezza! (1927)
87 min | Drama
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Carmen Boni, Walter Slezak, Elena Sangro, Augusto Bandini
Votes: 23
51. Scampolo (1928)
80 min | Comedy
Scampolo is a young orphan in Rome, Italy, who survives by doing all kinds of little jobs. Her only comforts in life are a little dog and an old professor, who both like to eat sugar. She's... See full summary »
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Carmen Boni, Livio Pavanelli, Hans Junkermann, Lya Christy
Votes: 21
52. I topi grigi (1918)
320 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Za-la-Mort is a romantic "Apache," in whom violent action coexists with noble sentiments.
Director: Emilio Ghione | Stars: Emilio Ghione, Kally Sambucini, Albert-Francis Bertoni, H. Fiorin
Votes: 38
53. The Artist's Model (1913)
Short, Drama
The sculptor Alberto has remained a widower and has a son in boarding school in Tivoli. Returning from the village he meets Francesca, a shepherdess, who agrees to marry him. But the woman,... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Ghione | Stars: Francesca Bertini, Angelo Gallina, Alberto Collo
54. Nelly la gigolette (1915)
Nelly, the dancer of the Black Tavern, is the girl, the gigolette, of the apache Zar-la-Mort, a notorious man of the Parisian underworld. She is forced by him to seduce the rich banker ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Ghione | Stars: Carlo Benetti, Olga Benetti, Francesca Bertini, Alberto Collo
55. Anime buie (1916)
The love between the apache Za la Mort, here in his fourth film, and Hesperia, the woman Who has killed his girlfriend...
Director: Emilio Ghione | Stars: Hesperia, Kally Sambucini, Emilio Ghione, Amilcare Taglienti
Votes: 17
56. La banda delle cifre (1915)
Director: Emilio Ghione | Stars: Alberto Collo, Diana D'Amore, Emilio Ghione
57. Sperduti nel buio (1914)
66 min | Drama
Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in ... See full summary »
Director: Nino Martoglio | Stars: Giovanni Grasso Sr., Maria Carmi, Virginia Balestrieri, Vittorina Moneta
Votes: 14
58. Capitan Blanco (1914)
Directors: Roberto Danesi, Nino Martoglio | Stars: Giovanni Grasso Sr., Virginia Balestrieri, Totò Majorana
59. Teresa Raquin (1915)
Short, Drama
Director: Nino Martoglio | Stars: Maria Carmi, Dillo Lombardi, Francesco Nicolosi-Puglisi, Giacinta Pezzana
60. Amor Pedestre (1914)
7 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Marcel Perez | Star: Marcel Perez
Votes: 130
63. Il miracolo (1920)
Director: Mario Caserini | Stars: Elena Bottone, Piero Concialdi, Goffredo D'Andrea, Leda Gys
64. Vedi Napoli e poi muori (1924)
An American director comes to Italy to shoot a film about the beautiful city of Naples, casting Pupatella (Leda Gys), a native of Santa Lucia, the sailors' neighborhood, in the movie. Eager... See full summary »
Director: Eugenio Perego | Stars: Leda Gys, Livio Pavanelli, Nino Taranto
Votes: 15
65. Napule... e niente cchiĂą (1928)
85 min | Drama
Director: Eugenio Perego | Stars: Leda Gys, Silvio Orsini, Pina Piovani, Gennaro Sebastiani
Votes: 11
66. Frate sole (1918)
The life of San Francesco d'Assisi divided into four episodes. His life, the era - full of lights and shadows - in which the holy lives fulfills his choice of poverty as the son of a merchant friar.
Director: Mario Corsi | Stars: Rina Calabria, Silvia Malinverni, Lucienne Myosa, Umberto Palmarini
Votes: 17
67. Il grido dell'aquila (1923)
Director: Mario Volpe | Stars: Manlio Bertoletti, Mariano Bottino, Alfredo Cruichi, Adriana De Cristoforis
68. Kif Tebbi (1928)
94 min | Drama
A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Donatella Neri, Carlo Benetti, Piero Carnabuci, Nini Dinelli
Votes: 19
69. Camicia nera (1933)
73 min | Drama
A Fascist propaganda film that details Italy's sacrifices in WWI and Mussolini's 'transformation' of rural Italy.
Director: Giovacchino Forzano | Stars: Enrico Marroni, Antonietta Mecale, Enrico Da Rosa, Guido Petri
Votes: 61
70. Vecchia guardia (1935)
85 min | Drama
The 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.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Gianfranco Giachetti, Mino Doro, Franco Brambilla, Maria Puccini
Votes: 98
71. Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently ... See full summary »
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini, André Nicolle
Votes: 668
72. La maschera e il volto (1919)
Comedy
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Ettore Piergiovanni, Leone Papa, Ginette Riche
Votes: 9
73. Cyrano de Bergerac (1923)
TV-G | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Pierre Magnier, Linda Moglia, Angelo Ferrari, Maurice Schutz
Votes: 341
74. Maciste in vacanza (1921)
Director: Luigi Romano Borgnetto | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Henriette Bonard, Gemma De Sanctis, Mario Voller-Buzzi
Votes: 7
75. Maciste in Africa (1926)
82 min
Part of the long running series of peplum adventures featuring the strong man character Maciste..In this one, he has an underwater fight with a shark.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Cecyl Tryan, Rita D'Harcourt, Arnold Kent
Votes: 43
76. Maciste in Hell (1925)
95 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Umberto Guarracino, Mario Saio, Franz Sala
Votes: 627
77. The Hero of the Circus (1926)
Adventure
Maciste is sent to Africa by a circus showman to capture some lions.
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Elena Sangro, Luigi Serventi, Mimi Dovia
Votes: 63
78. Il gigante delle Dolomiti (1927)
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Aldo Marus, Elena Lunda, Dolly Grey
Votes: 8
79. Sole! (1929)
76 min | Drama
Anticipating 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.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Marcello Spada, Vasco Creti, Dria Paola, Vittorio Vaser
Votes: 26
80. Rotaie (1929)
91 min | Drama
A young honeymooning couple are lured away to a seaside resort by a high-society sleazeball, who has plans to seduce the girl, while at the same time her hubby in desperation stakes all his money on the roulette wheels.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Maurizio D'Ancora, Daniele Crespi, Giacomo Moschini
Votes: 140
81. Terra madre (1931)
90 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini, Isa Pola, Olga Capri
Votes: 70
82. Nobody's Land (1939)
94 min
Director: Mario Baffico | Stars: Mario Ferrari, Nelly Corradi, Laura Solari, Umberto Sacripante
83. Redenzione (1943)
85 min | Drama
Director: Marcello Albani | Stars: Carlo Tamberlani, Mario Ferrari, Camillo Pilotto, Vera Carmi
84. La corona di ferro (1941)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A 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.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Votes: 430
85. The Spirit and the Flesh (1941)
105 min | Drama, History, Romance
Lumbardy, Italy, seventeenth century. Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Gino Cervi, Dina Sassoli, Ruggero Ruggeri, Armando Falconi
Votes: 109
86. Un colpo di pistola (1942)
90 min | Drama, History
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Rubi Dalma
Votes: 92
87. ZazĂ (1944)
88 min | Romance, Drama
A Parisian engineer has a fling with a show girl who later breaks with him when she learns he is married and has a family.
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Isa Miranda, Antonio Centa, Aldo Silvani, Ada Dondini
Votes: 48
88. Malombra (1942)
135 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi, Irasema Dilián, Gualtiero Tumiati
Votes: 199
89. Men of the Mountain (1943)
85 min | Drama, War
Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.
Director: Aldo Vergano | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Mariella Lotti, Mario Ferrari, Ori Monteverdi
Votes: 46
90. Il birichino di papĂ (1943)
80 min | Comedy
A precocious girl tries to prevent the marriage of her older sister to a womanizer and stirs up trouble in the boarding school she is sent to.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Chiaretta Gelli, Armando Falconi, Dina Galli, Amelia Chellini
Votes: 53
91. La donna della montagna (1944)
93 min | Drama
A widowed engineer finds solace in the love of a young woman, with whom he marries. However, everything reminds him of his first wife, the marriage goes into crisis and the new wife must ... See full summary »
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Marina Berti, Amedeo Nazzari, Maurizio D'Ancora, Oscar Andriani
Votes: 50
92. La canzone dell'amore (1930)
94 min | Drama
Loose Pirandello adaptation: A young lady hides from her fiance that she is caring for a baby half brother left behind by her late mother.The fiance, like her an aspiring musical performer, has indicated he doesn't want a child yet.
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Dria Paola, Isa Pola, Elio Steiner, Mercedes Brignone
Votes: 44
95. Fantasia sottomarina (1939)
11 min | Short
The tale of two fish in love, threatened by an octopus and saved by an eel.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Star: Guido Notari
Votes: 128
97. Scipione l'africano (1937)
83 min | Drama, History, War
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggiotti
Votes: 318
100. The Triumph of an Emperor (1913)
61 min | Drama
Emperor Maximian, having married his daughter, Fausta, to Constantine, renounced the purple and went into retirement, but the enforced idleness and his desire for power and action, induced ... See full summary »
Director: Nino Oxilia | Stars: Maria Jacobini, Mario Mariani, Dillo Lombardi, Jeanne Bay
Votes: 34
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