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Ettore Fieramosca
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th Century The 14th CenturyETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
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Pietro Micca
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Life of St. Paul
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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The Duchess of Parma
🇮🇹 ItalyLa Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which the director established his international reputation, the film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). A little wanting in the way of plot or logic, La Constessa di Parma is at least consistently good to look at.
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The Lady in White
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sThe lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
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Mister Max
🇮🇹 ItalyVittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
🇮🇹 Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic — A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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The Bride Wore Red
🇮🇹 Italy2 weeks to be a lady! 2 weeks to feather her nest! 2 weeks to make one man say "I do!" — A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Der Mustergatte
🇮🇹 ItalyHeinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.
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Felicita Colombo
🇮🇹 ItalyIn the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
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Dodsworth
🇮🇹 ItalyHere is a picture that was marked for greatness before it was ever screened! — A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Anthony Adverse
🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! — Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Romeo and Juliet
🇮🇹 ItalyThe classic love story by William Shakespeare. — Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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A Woman Rebels
🇮🇹 Italy The 19th CenturyShe's glorious ...As a Woman In Arms! ...He's Magnificent As the Man She Adores. — A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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Give Me Your Heart
🇮🇹 ItalyThe Fearless-Yet Tender- Story of a Modern Mother! — An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Cavalleria
🇮🇹 Italy The 1910s The 1900sUmberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
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Boccaccio
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyThe residents of the town of Ferrara are swept up in a tide of emotion and physical passion by the writings of a Renaissance author. Before long, the town is in chaos and it becomes difficult to keep track of which characters have been involved with one another. Is it any wonder the Germans didn't take their Italian allies seriously?!
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The Cardinal
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturySet in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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Ave Maria
🇮🇹 ItalyAve Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mourning the loss of the only woman he ever loved, concert singer Tino Dossi (Gigli) is temporarily shaken from his doldrums by vivacious Montmartre entertainer Claudette (Kaethe Von Nagy). Dossi doesn't realize that Claudette is merely using him to advance her own singing career. Ultimately won over by Dossi's sincerity and courtesy, Claudette falls in love with him for real, only to suffer the pangs of conscience as a result. About to kill herself, she decides instead to return to Dossi's arms, vowing never to confess her original mercenary intentions.
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Pagliacci
🇮🇹 ItalyCanio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. The film was partly made in Ufacolor.
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The Phantom Gondola
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Top Hat
🇮🇹 ItalyThey're Dancing Cheek-To-Cheek Again! — Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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Lucrezia Borgia
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
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Buddy's Theatre
🇮🇹 ItalyBuddy is a projectionist in a movie theatre where the 'coming attractions' trailer promises '15 features for 15 cents."
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Escape Me Never
🇮🇹 ItalyThe World's Greatest Actress! — Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.
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Three Cornered Hat
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th CenturyA comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
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Midshipman Easy
🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 18th CenturySet during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Leichte Kavallerie
🇮🇹 ItalyRosika, a girl from Genoa, fled her innkeeper stepfather after he tried to abuse her. She finds refuge - and a job as well - in a traveling circus. Cherubini, the owner of the big top, falls in love with the lovely young woman and makes her the star of the show 'Light Cavalry'. But unfortunately for him Rosika's heart beats for Geza, the stable boy.
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Stradivari
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Künstlerliebe
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Vintage Wine
🇮🇹 ItalyThe members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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Invitation To The Waltz
🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sAs the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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The Divine Spark
🇮🇹 Italy The 1830sBritish musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
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Dora Nelson
🇮🇹 ItalyDora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.
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The Singer of Naples
🇮🇹 ItalyA blacksmith's son from Naples rises to become a celebrated opera singer, performing at La Scala in Milan.
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Gesuzza, La Sposa Garibaldina
🇮🇹 Italy The 1860sThe story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
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The Affairs of Cellini
🇮🇹 Italy The 16th CenturyHanging is too good for Cellini...declared the Duchess, so she smothered him...in her arms! — The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Blind Woman of Sorrento
🇮🇹 Italy The 19th CenturyDrama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the 1852 novel of the same title by Francesco Mastriani. A young woman named Beatrice loses her sight after witnessing the death of her mother. Unable to see Beatrice is unable to identify her mothers’ killer. The police arrest a man who they believe is the murderer. Did they get the right man or is the killer still lurking in the shadows? Years later a family friend introduces Beatrice to a renowned Doctor who specializes in restoring sight. Will Beatrice regain her sight and identify her mothers’ killer or will someone make sure that she never sees again?
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Old Guard
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sThere were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
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Loyalty of Love
🇮🇹 Italy The 19th CenturyHot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed films released within same week. Like the earlier picture, Loyalty is a historical drama. During the period in which Italy was under Austrian rule, Count Federico (Nerio Bernardi) fights tirelessly to free his people from oppression. The Count's wife Teresa (Marta Alba) remains loyally by his side, even when he is unfaithful to her, which is often. Federico doesn't realize how important Teresa is to him, nor how much he loves her, until it's almost too late. At time of the release of Loyalty of Love, star Marta Alba had transferred her base of operations to New York, where she starred in Broadway production of Tovarich.
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My Song Goes Round the World
🇮🇹 ItalySet in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
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