Cast: Enrico Glori

Direction Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast Yvonne Sanson · Amedeo Nazzari · Françoise Rosay · Folco Lulli

Plot The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jacqueline Delubac · Sacha Guitry · Lyn Harding · Renée Saint-Cyr

Plot Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Jean Sorel · Lea Massari · Jeanne Valérie · Rik Battaglia

Plot Handsome, from rundown suburbs, Roman, aged twenty, unemployed with a child of 20 days and the mother of the latter to support, Davide spends a day looking for work, finds...

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Fernandel · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin · Léon Belières

Plot Casimir Fabre (Jean Castan) and Irénée Fabre (Fernandel) work in their uncle’s grocer’s shop in a Provençal village. Whilst Casimir sticks to his job, Irénée only dreams of becoming a...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Gino Cervi · Andrea Checchi · Ivan Desny

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Vittorio De Sica · Virgilio Riento · Laura Gore

Plot Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Paul Muni · Joan Lorring · Vittorio Manunta · Luisa Rossi

Plot A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family, who is forced to steal when he loses the...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Harry Baur · Annie Ducaux · Jany Holt · André Nox

Plot 1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi,...

Direction Antonio Leonviola

Cast Mark Forest · Moira Orfei · Paul Wynter · Raffaella Carrà

Direction Alfonso Brescia

Cast Ángel del Pozo · Luciana Gilli · Miguel de la Riva · Pietro Tordi

Plot The town of San Felipe is plagued by robberies. Two Federal Agents are sent to investigate the major suspect, a local landowner. One agent works on his ranch, the other...

Direction Piero Ballerini

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Doris Duranti · Germana Paolieri · Polidor

Direction Giuliano Montaldo

Cast Franco Balducci · Loris Bazzocchi · Francisco Rabal · Silla Bettini

Direction André Cayatte

Cast Madeleine Sologne · Serge Reggiani · Paul Meurisse · Enrico Glori

Plot A banker responsible for a financial crisis dies, and his death is covered up.

Direction Pierre Chenal

Cast Edmund Purdom · Gianna Maria Canale · John Drew Barrymore · Jany Clair

Plot During the last days of Imperial Russia, Rasputin (Edmund Purdom) cures the Czar's daughter and endears himself to the royal family, but he is persecuted by envious and conniving officials...

Direction Nanni Loy · Puccini

Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Abbe Lane · Nadia Gray · Andrea Checchi

Direction Marc Allégret · Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Massimo Serato · Alba Arnova · Elli Parvo

Plot Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three...

Direction Luigi Capuano

Cast Lex Barker · Chelo Alonso · Livio Lorenzon · Liana Orfei

Plot Marco, a traveling soldier in Renaissance Italy, enters the employ of an ambitious lord named Astolfo whose cruel reign is being challenged by a rebel known as "the Red Mask."...

Direction Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Cast Frank Latimore · Milly Vitale · Pierre Cressoy · Doris Duranti

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Fosco Giachetti · Gaby Morlay · Germana Paolieri · Camillo Pilotto

Direction Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Walter Chiari · Aldo Fabrizi · Peppino De Filippo · Dorian Gray

Plot Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss...