Oreste Grandi

A small faction of the militia of the Kingdom of Ircania are conspiring to dethrone their King, Ircanus III. Beneath her costly robes Queen Maritza...

This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an...

A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His...

A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated.

A violinist touches the heart of a sick lady.

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.

A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor....

A woman and a mistress fight.

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his daughter, and denounces Galilei to the Holy Office.

Italian silent film.

A short Italian melodrama about the tragic life of an adulterous lion tamer.

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

Italian short drama directed by Luigi Maggi.

After seven years of traveling, Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast. Here they are led...

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath...

Two friends are both in love with the lovely widow Gigetta Moreno. When they duel and one is victorious, he is happy with his conquest for about...

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

This film shows the realistic battle scenes of the Siege of Moscow, with the sensational defeat of Napoleon, with the belching cannon, the battling...

A humble fisherman's singing distubs some witches. The eldest witch tries to make him stop, to no avail. She throws handfuls of gold into the sea,...

Maciste takes advantage again of a break of acting in order to wash away injustice and castigate the wicked, this time in the name of dynastic...

The Giant of the Dolomites (Italian: Il gigante delle Dolomiti) is a 1927 Italian silent adventure film directed by Guido Brignone and starring...

Italian short drama

Italian silent film

A cruel game between the disdainful Kunigund and the passionate Delorges.

A film directed by Luigi Latini de Marchi

Invited by Duke Alfonso II to the court of Ferrara to read his poems, the poet Torquato Tasso finds himself at the center of court intrigue because...