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poster Anita Garibaldi

Anita Garibaldi

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 La ribalta

La ribalta

A woman and a mistress fight.

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 Calino's Baptism

Calino's Baptism

A short Calino film.

poster Romeo e Giulietta

Romeo e Giulietta

37mn - Drama, Romance

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

poster Return to Reason

Return to Reason

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

poster La Moglie di Claudio

La Moglie di Claudio

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 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 Italienischer Bauerntanz

Italienischer Bauerntanz

1mn - Documentary

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

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…

poster Nero and Agrippina

Nero and Agrippina

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

poster Story of a Cloistered Nun

Story of a Cloistered Nun

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…

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 Stay Calm

Stay Calm

91mn - Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Giorgio, an Italian-American appointed to the Ministry of Culture, arrives in Italy with big plans for his election campaign. Giorgio and his assistant Marco hire an Instagram influencer and an ex-prisone…

poster The Chinese Shadows

The Chinese Shadows

3mn - Comedy, Animation

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

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 Addition and Subtraction

Addition and Subtraction

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

Border

When two sisters learn that a member of their family has decided to desert the Syrian Army and join the Free Army, they must embark on a hazardous journey to Turkey, in this powerful account of contempora…

poster Loïe Fuller

Loïe Fuller

2mn - Fantasy, Documentary

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dance before disappearing into thin air. The dance is mes…

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