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poster Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

15mn - Fantasy, Drama

A two-reel adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Helios Film. It is less well-known than the five-reel feature produced the same year by Milano Films, but it was released earli…

poster My Cousin

My Cousin

50mn - Drama, Comedy

Sincere but struggling sculptor Tommasso (Caruso--bushy moustache, gawky) works in an ornamental plaster shop, but his masterpiece on the side is a bust of his cousin Caroli (Caruso--no moustache, polishe…

Padre

Directed by Dante Testa and Gino Zaccaria.

poster The Violin Maker of Cremona

The Violin Maker of Cremona

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his supe…

poster Assunta Spina

Assunta Spina

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to …

poster Anita Garibaldi

Anita Garibaldi

Ashes

39mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…

Romola

106mn - Drama, History

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, …

poster The Infernal Cauldron

The Infernal Cauldron

2mn - Fantasy, Horror

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

poster Italienischer Bauerntanz

Italienischer Bauerntanz

1mn - Documentary

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

poster Tweedledum as Aviator

Tweedledum as Aviator

Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bon…

poster Didone abbandonata

Didone abbandonata

13mn - Drama, Romance, Adventure

After seven years of traveling, Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast. Here they are led by the Amazons to the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who soon…

poster Calino's Baptism

Calino's Baptism

A short Calino film.

poster Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End

Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End

When a gang of vicious outlaws led by the deranged Black Burt Keller abducts Jessica Colby to use as a hostage for their escape to Mexico, two legendary gunfighters—Django the bounty hunter and the righte…

poster Kill or Be Killed

Kill or Be Killed

90mn - Action, Adventure, Drama

Two former ranking figures of the Axis powers (the evil General Von Rudloff and Japanese master Miyagi) schedule a deadly martial arts tournament in Von Rudloff's desert castle. They race to assemble the…

poster The Pillar of Fire

The Pillar of Fire

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…

poster King Lear

King Lear

Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

Faust

18mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total…

poster Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing

Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing

1mn - Documentary

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

poster Benítez quiere ser torero

Benítez quiere ser torero

Benitez pretends to be a toreador and his friends decide to pull a prank on him.

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