Screenplay: Gabriele D'Annunzio

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Jennifer O'Neill · Laura Antonelli · Marc Porel

Plot L'Innocente takes place among the social class to which Visconti belonged, but in the 1890s, ten years before he was born. This was to be Visconti's swansong, and he died...

Direction Giovanni Pastrone

Cast Lidia Quaranta · Italia Almirante Manzini · Umberto Mozzato · Bartolomeo Pagano

Plot During the Punic Wars in the third century B.C. the little girl Cabiria, and her nurse Croessa, are abducted during the confusion caused by an eruption of Mount Etna. Cabiria...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Roldano Lupi · Yvonne Sanson · Ave Ninchi

Direction Luciano Emmer · Enrico Gras

Plot This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the...

Direction Brian Large · Kirk Browning · Gary Halvorson

Cast Metropolitan Opera Chorus · James Levine · Metropolitan Opera Orchestra · Plácido Domingo

Plot This is the 1977 television recording of the Rise and Fall of Managing by Kurt Weill

Direction Luigi Maggi

Cast Mary Cleo Tarlarini · Mario Voller-Buzzi · Lola Visconti-Brignone · Antonietta Calderari

Plot Pantea, a famous courtesan, wins Orseola away from a dogeress who loves him madly. The dogeress in revenge invokes the aid of a famous sorceress, who molds a wax image...

Direction Chano Urueta

Cast Elsa Aguirre · Miguel Torruco · Carlos López Moctezuma · Roberto Soto

Direction Gabriellino D'Annunzio · Mario Roncoroni

Cast Ida Rubinstein · Alfredo Boccolini · Ciro Galvani · Mary Cleo Tarlarini

Plot Based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's play from 1908, and directed by his son Gabriellino, La nave is an epic spectacle in the tradition of Cabiria, and the scores of other historical...

Direction Lionello De Felice

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Irène Galter · Franco Interlenghi · Carlo Ninchi

Direction Petr Weigl

Cast Michael Biehn · Nicholas Clay · Franco Citti · Urs Althaus

Plot Sebastian, Chief Archer in the Roman Army, converts to Christianity. A favorite of Emperor Augustus, Sebastian’s devotion to Christ eventually drives him to reject the Emperor’s love, causing the Emperor...

Direction Ermanno Olmi

Cast Giorgio Albertazzi