Direction: Amleto Palermi

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Amleto Palermi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


St. John the Baptist Beheaded

1940 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Amleto Palermi · Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Totò · Titina de Filippo · Silvana Jachino · Augusto Di Giovanni

Plot Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint...

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The Jewel of Karma

1918 · Movie · 74 min. · Italy

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Cavalleria rusticana

1939 · Movie · 75 min. · Italy

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Isa Pola · Doris Duranti · Carlo Ninchi · Leonardo Cortese

Plot Young Tiruddu returns home to his Sicilian village after completing his military service to find his fiancée, Lola, married to a rich and possessive businessman. But Lola soon provokes her...

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The Confessions of a Woman

1928 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Enrica Fantis · Augusto Bandini · Maria Catalano · Gemma De Ferrari

Plot The film relates a woman falling into high-class prostitution, and her eventual redemption.

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L'allegro fantasma

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

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I figli del marchese Lucera

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy

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Carnevalesca

1918 · Movie · 70 min. · Italy

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La peccatrice

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Paola Barbara · Vittorio De Sica · Fosco Giachetti · Gino Cervi

Plot "The woman’s “immodesty” and “sin” are made explicitly central to the film, from the title onward, but its point, I think, is to open up these notions to critical scrutiny....

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