With Società Italiana Cines (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. 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: 364
2. Four Ways Out (1951)
74 min | Crime, Drama
Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco, Paul Muller
Votes: 373
3. 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: 535
4. The Bigamist (1942)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
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 troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone, Carlo Romano
Votes: 450
5. The Man with the Cross (1943)
72 min | War
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt, Attilio Dottesio, Doris Hild
Votes: 241
6. The Sword and the Cross (1956)
87 min | Drama
Tarsus, in the Roman province of Cilicia, AD 120. Two Carthaginian sisters, Lea and Esther, are bought as slave girls by Roman tribune Marcus Valerius, who gives them as a present to proud ... See full summary »
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Gianna Maria Canale, Jorge Mistral, Marisa Allasio, Ana Luisa Peluffo
Votes: 76
7. The Woman in the Painting (1955)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Mario and the new kid Franco gradually become the best of friends, but their friendship is tested when one of them wins a competition.
Director: Franco Rossi | Stars: Geronimo Meynier, Andrea Sciré, Vera Carmi, Luigi Tosi
Votes: 168
8. 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: 75
9. La cena delle beffe (1942)
87 min | Drama, Romance
This 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti, Clara Calamai, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 220
10. 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: 726
11. Antony and Cleopatra (1913)
72 min | Drama, History, Romance
After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Amleto Novelli, Ignazio Lupi, Elsa Lenard
Votes: 65
12. 100 Years of Love (1954)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Lionello De Felice | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Irene Galter, Franco Interlenghi, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 49
13. The Moment of Truth (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Drama
On the night of their tenth anniversary, Doctor Rene Richard accidentally discovers that his wife, actress Madeleine Richard, has been having an affair with a disturbed artist, Daniel ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Walter Chiari, Daniel Gélin
Votes: 333
14. Finishing School (1952)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero, Jacques Sernas, Steve Barclay
Votes: 11
16. Voice of Silence (1953)
110 min | Drama
A group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. They comprise of a candle-maker, a politician, an ex-prisoner... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Jean Marais, Daniel Gélin, Cosetta Greco
Votes: 82
17. Due cuori fra le belve (1943)
83 min | Comedy
The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
Director: Giorgio Simonelli | Stars: Totò, Vera Carmi, Enrico Glori, Nando Bruno
Votes: 88
18. 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: 159
19. Sinfonia d'amore (1956)
95 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Director: Glauco Pellegrini | Stars: Claude Laydu, Marina Vlady, Lucia Bosè, Jone Salinas
Votes: 16
20. Position Wanted (1951)
95 min | Comedy
Housemaid Maria has been engaged to Berto for 15 years. Berto doesn't have a steady job so he's waiting for his Uncle Matteo's death, when he will come into an inheritance. In the meantime ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Pastina | Stars: Elsa Merlini, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi
Votes: 84
21. 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: 54
22. Sorelle Materassi (1944)
72 min | Comedy
The quiet days of two elderly spinster sisters are changed for good with the unexpected arrival of their nephew.
Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli | Stars: Emma Gramatica, Irma Gramatica, Olga Solbelli, Massimo Serato
Votes: 71
23. Savitri Satyavan (1923)
Drama
India's first international co-production. The love-is-stronger-than-death story sees Savitri, the daughter of King Ashwapati and a goddess, fall for Satyavan who is destined to die within ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Mannini | Stars: Rina De Liguoro, Angelo Ferrari, Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Bruto Castellani
24. Times Gone By (1952)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Pina Renzi, Enzo Staiola, Luigi Cimara
Votes: 141
25. Avanti c'è posto... (1942)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Cesare is a ticket collector on a bus who is competing with the driver, Bruno, for the love of Rosella, a naïve waitress who's been mugged on the bus.
Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Andrea Checchi, Adriana Benetti, Aldo Fabrizi, Carlo Micheluzzi
Votes: 90
26. Twelve Hours to Live (1950)
81 min | Drama, Fantasy
A gentleman by the name of Bachi dies but can't be admitted into heaven because of an evil action committed during his lifetime. He is given the opportunity to return to the living for a ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Jean Gabin, Elli Parvo, Antonella Lualdi, Paola Borboni
Votes: 74
27. The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952)
97 min | Action, Drama
In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Cosetta Greco, Saro Urzì, Fausto Tozzi
Votes: 201
28. Honeymoon Deferred (1951)
79 min | Comedy
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where he fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Kieron Moore, Griffith Jones, Lea Padovani, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 37
29. Wives and Obscurities (1956)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Leonardo De Mitri | Stars: Gino Cervi, Walter Chiari, Enrico Viarisio, Federica Ranchi
Votes: 17
30. Devotion (1950)
Unrated | 78 min | Drama
In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threatened with eviction. To be able to pay ... See full summary »
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Columba Domínguez, Roldano Lupi, Juan de Landa, Franca Marzi
Votes: 20
31. Life (1920)
Drama
Director: Gaston Ravel | Stars: Alberto Capozzi, Mina D'Orvella, Cecyl Tryan, Ugo Piperno
32. Leathernose (1952)
92 min | Drama
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Jean Marais, Françoise Christophe, Jean Debucourt, Mariella Lotti
Votes: 65
33. A Fugitive at Bay (1913)
Short, Drama
Vanni Lupo, a young villager, returning from a hunt with Baron Torrie, is introduced to the Baron's beautiful daughter, Minerva. A feeling of mutual attraction immediately springs up ... See full summary »
Director: Nino Martoglio | Star: Pina Menichelli
34. Non ti pago! (1942)
72 min | Comedy
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Vanna Vanni
Votes: 137
35. Hamlet (I) (1908)
Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Mario Caserini | Star: Fernanda Negri Pouget
Votes: 24
36. The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
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 fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Caterina Boratto, Cristiano Cristiani, Peppino De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi
Votes: 202
37. Taxi di notte (1950)
88 min | Comedy
A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the ... See full summary »
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Beniamino Gigli, Danielle Godet, Philippe Lemaire, Virginia Belmont
Votes: 29
38. 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: 113
40. Bride of the Nile (1911)
18 min | Short
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Bruto Castellani, Ettore Mazzanti, Gastone Monaldi, Fernanda Negri Pouget
Votes: 34
41. Mothers of France (1917)
73 min | Drama, War
A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.
Directors: René Hervil, Louis Mercanton | Stars: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabriel Signoret, Georges Deneubourg, Jean Angelo
Votes: 40
42. The Crusaders (1911)
Drama
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Amleto Novelli, Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Carlo Cattaneo, Emilio Ghione
Votes: 22
43. Music on the Run (1943)
66 min | Comedy, Musical
A famous baritone tells about the adventure he had taken the day before, when he lost his train and found himself wandering the countryside with a girl who had left the jealous boyfriend on the train.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Gino Bechi, Irasema Dilián, Guglielmo Barnabò, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 10
44. The Sacking of Rome (1910)
Short, Drama
In this film are depicted the various scenes leading up to, and during, the sacking of Rome, many hundred years ago. Enacted upon the original ground, and amidst beautiful scenery and grim ... See full summary »
46. Phaedra (1909)
Short, Drama
Director: Oreste Gherardini | Stars: Carlo Duse, Ciro Galvani, Italia Vitaliani
47. The Accomplices (1955)
95 min | Comedy
Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Borghesio | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 61
48. The Voice of Innocence (1914)
27 min | Short, Drama
Beth Landis. a pretty eighteen-year-old girl, returns home at the end of a year in boarding school to find that her father, a well-known novelist, is about to marry his stenographer. ... See full summary »
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Lea Giunchi, Pina Menichelli, Annibale Ninchi, Raffaello Vinci
49. Jealousy (1942)
86 min | Drama
A Marquis lets an innocent man take the blame for the murder of one of his foremen , who had entered into a marriage in name only with the former peasant girlfriend of the Marquis.
Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli | Stars: Luisa Ferida, Roldano Lupi, Ruggero Ruggeri, Elena Zareschi
Votes: 15
50. 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: 13