Lea Padovani

Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where...

An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off...

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

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

Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in...

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

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low...

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social...

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic...

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters...

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love...

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages,...

I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard

A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.

A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy...

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious...

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

During WWII, Sandro Ademari (Massimo Girotti), head of a group of Italian partisans, to escape from a Nazi catch, hides himself by a farm. Here he...

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds...

An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he...

Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with...

A teen marries the Prince of Clèves, more than twice her age, which makes her an official Princess, a position she takes to heart. Although...

The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the...

The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the...

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long...

While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director...

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their...

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to...

Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor, Eugenio Devoto, with whom she has exchanged only...

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

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman...

Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century, plans to seduce Ehrengard, an attractive and proud virgin,...

An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love...

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...

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.

After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.

After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from films performed by the late comedian actor,...

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire...