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...

When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.

A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy...

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was...

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio...

An alien race sends cyborgs — made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet — to Earth...

An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.

Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani manages to convince her parents to let her spend the...

Directed by Francesco Pasinetti

An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light...

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.

A wealthy and jealous merchant tries to lure a young girl away from her boyfriend by offering to pay to stage small singing concerts for her.

Gianna, a young radio singer, marries Giulio, director of a travel agency. Soon after, they welcome a child. The tranquility of their family life is...

Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship...

Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big...

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is...

A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking...

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier...

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.

Italian film from 1942.

Rolando, the chief of the Venetian fleet, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in prison. After succeeding to escape he...

An Italian film from 1943.

"Torment of love" - Sara and Pietro meet in Barcelona and immediately a strong friendship grows between them, that soon turns into love. Sara does...

Barbara Florian is in love with Renalto Baldini. After the latter goes off to a distant job to make enough money to marry her, the girl discovers she...

A poor farmer is invited to the King's court and tries to prevent the princess' marriage to a villanious knight.

A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca

Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.

A farmer's daughter falls in love with a sheepherder who raped her.

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the...