(ITA) BLASETTI ALESSANDRO

Anticipating the neo realism of over a decade later, Sole uses real locations and non professional actors to dramatize a Mussolini project: to reclaim malarial swamp south of Rome and turn it into farmland and housing.

Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.

A young aristocrat, planning to spend more time in town, returns to his farmland to sell out to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who worked for him.

A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.

During the traditional Siena celebration of the Palio, jockeys from different neighborhoods compete in the culminating horse race in the town square and vie with each other for the local women.

Marquis Fusaro is a Napoletan nobleman and a chairman of the charity organization which helps the poor. But unbeknownst to his rich friends he himself is also completely broke and has to sell all the valuables from his apartment in order to survive. One day a beggar asks Marquis to safekeep all the money he made through begging in 30 years for him, but when Marquis' friends arrive for a visit they see the beggar's money on Marquis' table and think this money is Marquis' donation to their charity organization and take it. Marquis now has to find a quick way to get 7.500 liras and return them to the beggar.

A shoemaker escapes his unfaithful wife by going to the countryside, where he is mistaken for an actor/magician and meets the daughter of his mentor.

Psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme.

The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.

Corrado Valeri, naval officer, has a wife who is a bit frivolous while he is a bit too jealous. This situation has repercussions on his military life with continuous failures.

An elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.

Nationalistic, romantic war film glorifying the role played by a group of Italian mercenaries fighting on the side of the Spanish who were battling the French for control of the peninsula during the Renaissance.

A lady pianist and a baritone squabble,meeting on a ship and before Milan shows. After a rude response by critics and an audience claque, the singer makes a hit pretending to be a Russian artist and the couple find romance.

Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, and Osvaldo Valenti star in this Italian swashbuckler which would have starred Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks had it been made in Hollywood. Salvatore Rosa was a versatile poet and painter of landscapes and battles. His romantic life is the inspiration for this fictional tale of the masked hero, "The Ant", Rosa's alter-ego, a friend and defender of the poor citizens...

A crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.

This is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano . The story is set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de'Medici recounts the rivalry between Gianneto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva and Gianneto's thirst for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabreillo. The joke ultimately takes Neri to murder Ginerva and by mistake his brother. The opera ends with Neri descent into madness.

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....

Seven young women in a boarding house in Rome during WWII: their aspirations and future hopes.Several keep memories of soldiers who are no longer alive, while others find new loves: a professor, an industrialist, a blind man.

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.