Cast: Carlo Duse

Direction Luis Trenker · Werner Klingler

Cast Luis Trenker · August Eichhorn · Waltraut Klein · Ethel Maggi

Plot Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, captain of fortune at the service of...

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Märta Torén · Nadia Gray · Paolo Stoppa

Plot This biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and...

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Gino Cervi · Luisa Ferida · Rina Morelli · Osvaldo Valenti

Direction Domenico Gambino

Cast Luisa Ferida · Giovanni Grasso · Mino Doro · Carlo Duse

Direction Nunzio Malasomma

Cast Dria Paola · Corrado Racca · Dino Di Luca · Anna Magnani

Direction Carmine Gallone

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

Direction Marcello Pagliero · Hans Hinrich

Cast Viveca Lindfors · Gustav Diessl · Otello Toso · Umberto Spadaro

Direction Roberto Bianchi Montero

Cast Boris Karloff · Franca Marzi · Renato Vicario · Patricia Remiddi

Plot An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Anna Magnani · Tito Gobbi · Hans Hinrich · Gino Sinimberghi

Plot The story intertwines the actions of the underground movement in Rome in 1944 against the Germans by a group of opera performers who are part of the Italian resistance, with...

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Luisa Ferida · Carlo Ninchi · Roberto Villa · Oretta Fiume

Direction Goffredo Alessandrini · Francesco Rosi

Cast Anna Magnani · Raf Vallone · Alain Cuny · Jacques Sernas

Plot The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination. Although the defence of Rome has become impossible, Garibaldi declares his intent to continue the struggle for...

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Gino Cervi · Anneliese Uhlig · Paolo Stoppa · Enrico Glori

Direction Romolo Marcellini

Cast Dorothea Wieck · Otello Toso · Maurizio D'Ancora · Nerio Bernardi

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Marina Berti · Carlo Ninchi · Andrea Checchi · Osvaldo Valenti

Plot A military doctor, in the late 1800s, had to leave for California with his young assistant, to treat smallpox.

Direction Guido Brignone

Cast Elsa Merlini · Amedeo Nazzari · Uberto Palmarini · Ugo Ceseri

Plot Florence 15th century: Ginevra falls into a state of catalepsy after a marriage imposed on her by her father. She is thought to be dead and buried but manages to...

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Corinne Luchaire · George Rigaud · María Denis · Camillo Pilotto

Plot In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in...

Direction Carl Koch

Cast Michel Simon · Isa Pola · Rossano Brazzi · Valentina Cortese

Direction Ugo Falena

Cast Ciro Galvani · Carlo Duse · Clotilde De Maria · Anna Pasquinelli

Plot Romulus, the founder of Rome, and his compatriots are entertaining the daughters of their neighbors, the Sabines, at a feast when at a given signal the Sabine women are made...

Direction Carlo Campogalliani

Cast Gustav Diessl · Rossano Brazzi · Paola Barbara · Valentina Cortese

Direction Giacomo Gentilomo

Cast Myriam Bru · Milly Vitale · André Luguet · Franco Interlenghi