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poster Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
11mn - History
poster Romola
Romola
(3.1/5)
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 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 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 Beatrice Fairfax
Beatrice Fairfax
(4.0/5)
300mn - Action, Adventure
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include excit…
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 La Moglie di Claudio
La Moglie di Claudio
(2.8/5)
70mn - Drama, History
Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her free life, Claudio is dedicated to the development of s…
poster My Cousin
My Cousin
(3.2/5)
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…
poster Nero and Agrippina
Nero and Agrippina
(2.8/5)
18mn - History
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
poster The Railway Owner
The Railway Owner
(2.8/5)
75mn - Drama
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…
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 The Royal Tigress
The Royal Tigress
(3.4/5)
80mn - Drama
"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 La ribalta
La ribalta
5mn -
A woman and a mistress fight.
poster Fabiola
Fabiola
(2.7/5)
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 Italienischer Bauerntanz
Italienischer Bauerntanz
1mn - Documentary
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
poster La Parisienne
La Parisienne
(3.2/5)
86mn - Comedy
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
poster The Defect
The Defect
41mn -
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the d…
poster Pierrot the Prodigal
Pierrot the Prodigal
(2.7/5)
65mn - Drama
A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…
poster Messalina
Messalina
(2.9/5)
96mn - Drama
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 Calino's Baptism
Calino's Baptism
4mn - Comedy
A short Calino film.
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