Acting
A dinner among friends, a tarot reading sowing discord, and a suspicion of infidelity set off a chain of twists and turns, espionage, and unexpected revelations. What begins as a conversation over drinks and cards ends with a (literal) explosion of truths and poetic justice.
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.
A rich Sicilian farmer has to move from Sicily to Rome to help his grandson, University student, who has been put in jail.
In regional Sicily, Jana tries to repair her sister's marriage by going to a sorceress who makes up a love potion that will bring about the couple's happiness. But the spell only works on Jana herself...
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her.
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A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.
A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the CinecittĂ studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
The entrance of a woman in a café where, gathered by chance, four men play cards, brings to the mind of each of them the memory of their past love experiences.
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…
Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.
A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.
A young girl learns that she is the daughter of an executed politician and conspires to avenge her father's memory.
