Cast: Carlo Ninchi

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Raf Vallone · Eleonora Brown

Synopsis Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where Cesira...

Direction René Clair

Cast Michel Simon · Gérard Philipe · Nicole Besnard · Simone Valère

Synopsis Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature...whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new...

Direction Eduardo De Filippo

Cast Eduardo De Filippo · Leda Gloria · Delia Scala · Gianni Musy

Synopsis A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then...

Direction Roberto Rossellini · Marcello Pagliero

Cast Massimo Girotti · Carlo Ninchi · Elli Parvo · Roswita Schmidt

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Michèle Morgan · Henri Vidal · Michel Simon · Gino Cervi

Synopsis In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a christian and is...

Direction Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Cast Totò · Carla Calò · Gianna Maria Canale · Luigi Pavese

Synopsis The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi, a street musician.

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Totò · Isa Barzizza · Giuditta Rissone · Carlo Micheluzzi

Synopsis When proffessor Casamandrei (Totò) meets Doriana (Isa Barzizza), he falls in love at first sight. She does not love him, but she tells him that she will marry him if he wins the italian long distance road bicycle racing.

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Marina Berti · Elettra Druscovich · Massimo Girotti · Roldano Lupi

Direction Nanni Loy · Fernando Palacios · Puccini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Aurora Bautista · Luigi Tosi · Alberto de Amicis

Synopsis Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple.

Direction Mario Chiari · Pietro Germi · Glauco Pellegrini · Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Franco Interlenghi · Leonora Ruffo · Lea Padovani · Andrea Checchi

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Annibale Ninchi · Camillo Pilotto · Fosco Giachetti · Marcello Giorda

Synopsis Mussolini's government, in addition to making the railroads run on time (and other items not so good), could also produce a movie on a lavish scale, including over 6000 extras in the battle scenes. A story of the Second Punic...

Direction Lionello De Felice

Cast Cornel Wilde · Belinda Lee · Massimo Serato · Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine, his rise to power, and his establishment of religious tolerance among Roman subjects. Constantine's adoption of Christianity allowed this small persecuted religion to sweep throughout Europe as the empire's power waned.

Direction Mario Soldati

Cast Assia Noris · Carlo Ninchi · Luigi Cimara · Nino Crisman

Direction Lionello De Felice

Cast Massimo Serato · Umberto Spadaro · Paolo Stoppa · Walter Rilla

Direction Oreste Palella

Cast Nora Visconti · Folco Lulli · Pina Renzi · Guido Celano

Synopsis Saint Catherine of Siena's biopic film.

Direction Giorgio Pastina

Cast Elsa Merlini · Gino Cervi · Giulietta Masina · Alberto Sordi

Synopsis Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria...

Direction Turi Vasile

Cast Isa Miranda · Carlo Ninchi · Alesandro Ninchi · Vittorio De Sica

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Carlo Ninchi · Gianna Maria Canale · Franca Marzi · Peter Trent

Synopsis D'Artagnan, the famous musketeer, has a son who does not feel like following in his father's steps. For the time being he is a novice in a monastery. But when a King's courier, pursued by a bunch of killers, takes...

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Elisa Cegani · Roldano Lupi

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Fernandel · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Louis Seigner · David Opatoshu

Synopsis Joe Calvert (Fernadel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clothes to...