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poster Grandma Despina
Grandma Despina
1mn - Documentary
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, …
poster Assunta Spina
Assunta Spina
(3.1/5)
73mn - Drama
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 Story of a Cloistered Nun
Story of a Cloistered Nun
(2.8/5)
97mn - Drama
Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smit…
poster Italienischer Bauerntanz
Italienischer Bauerntanz
1mn - Documentary
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
poster Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
11mn - History
poster Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream
Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream
5mn - Fantasy
The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they begin dreaming of an angel standing over their bed and whis…
poster The Ancestress
The Ancestress
(3.1/5)
84mn - Drama, Horror
The long dead ancestress of a noble family returns to haunt her last two remaining descendants. She can not rest until the entire family line has passed away. When she reappears, the household knows it is…
poster Ramona
Ramona
17mn - Drama, Romance, Western
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to fi…
poster Little Orphant Annie
Little Orphant Annie
(3.3/5)
57mn - Drama
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relativ…
poster Silent Witnesses
Silent Witnesses
(2.9/5)
65mn - Drama
In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman …
poster Petit frère et petite sœur
Petit frère et petite sœur
(3/5)
1mn - Documentary, Family
In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.
poster The Fairy of Solbakken
The Fairy of Solbakken
(3.3/5)
111mn - Drama, Romance
Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and f…
poster Nero and Agrippina
Nero and Agrippina
(2.8/5)
18mn - History
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
poster Children Digging for Clams
Children Digging for Clams
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Children dig for clams on the beach
poster Padre
Padre
(3/5)
39mn -
Directed by Dante Testa and Gino Zaccaria.
poster Malombra
Malombra
(3/5)
75mn - Mystery, Drama, Horror
Marina di Malombra (Borelli) lives in a castle prior to her wedding. She begins to read letters written by an ancestor called Cecilia. She finds out that Cecilia was driven to her death by her uncle. Mari…
poster Calino's Baptism
Calino's Baptism
4mn - Comedy
A short Calino film.
poster Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
(2.7/5)
14mn - Comedy
Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....
poster The Dumb Girl of Portici
The Dumb Girl of Portici
(3.2/5)
115mn - Drama, History
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
poster Louisa
Louisa
(3.4/5)
90mn - Comedy
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
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