Ardita mellinino

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poster Anita Garibaldi

Anita Garibaldi

poster The Dumb Girl of Portici

The Dumb Girl of Portici

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 Il biglietto da mille

Il biglietto da mille

A film from the Società Anonima Ambrosio company.

poster L'amorino

L'amorino

A father tries to arrange a marriage to a wealthy man for his daughter, but she don't like him. And in anger she accidentally makes a young officer see stars and one can sparkles in their eyes.

poster La ribalta

La ribalta

A woman and a mistress fight.

poster Italienischer Bauerntanz

Italienischer Bauerntanz

1mn - Documentary

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

poster Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti

Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti

Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....

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 …

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…

poster Nero and Agrippina

Nero and Agrippina

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

poster Messalina

Messalina

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The…

poster Carmencita

Carmencita

1mn - Documentary

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through…

poster The Royal Tigress

The Royal Tigress

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "T…

poster El Dorado

El Dorado

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both…

poster The Railway Owner

The Railway Owner

Filippo Derblay, a young man of humble birth, became, thanks to his job, the owner of the ironworks. He is secretly in love with Clara, the daughter of the Marquis of Beaulieu, who lost all his fortune. C…

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…

Fabiola

110mn - History

In "Fabiola" (1918) Herr Guarzzoni moved from the earliest days of Christianity when the new faith was struggling to just survive to a later period in the Roman Empire when the religion was a major force …

poster Tess of the Storm Country

Tess of the Storm Country

A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.

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 Italian

The Italian

An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.

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