Michele Malaspina

Vita da cani

Steno, Mario Monicelli

Aldo Fabrizi, Gina Lollobrigida

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.

Cielo sulla palude

Augusto Genina

Inés Orsini, Giovanni Martella

Unlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina's Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film's American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti, a pious young girl who was murdered by her would-be seducer. For reasons elucidated in the course of the film, Maria's short time on earth made her worthy of Sainthood, which was actually bestowed upon her shortly after the release of this film. Maria Goretti is well-played by Ines Orsini. Cielo Sulla Palude served as the comeback feature for director Augusto Genina, whose previous pro-fascist films had caused him to be blacklisted after WW II.

Il delitto Matteotti

Florestano Vancini

Franco Nero, Mario Adorf

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Le miserie del signor Travet

Mario Soldati

Carlo Campanini, Vera Carmi

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.

Destino

Enzo di Gianni

Eva Nova, Mario Vitale

Vacanze d'inverno

Camillo Mastrocinque, Giuliano Carnimeo

Michèle Morgan, Georges Marchal

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.

Ultimo incontro

Gianni Franciolini

Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari

The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.

Chi è senza peccato....

Raffaello Matarazzo

Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson

Northern Italian Stefano marries sweetheart Maria by proxy while working abroad in Canada. However, she is mistakenly accused of her sister's crime of abandoning her own child and, when Stefano finds out, he decides to call off their marriage.

Le avventure di Mandrin

Mario Soldati

Raf Vallone, Jacques Castelot

Caltiki - Il mostro immortale

Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda

John Merivale, Didi Perego

Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.

Wanda, la peccatrice

Duilio Coletti

Yvonne Sanson, Françoise Rosay

Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.

Noi peccatori

Guido Brignone

Yvonne Sanson, Steve Barclay

Melodie Eterne

Carmine Gallone

Gino Cervi, Conchita Montenegro

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I piaceri del sabato notte

Daniele D'Anza

Maria Perschy, Elsa Martinelli

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

Il sogno di Zorro

Mario Soldati

Walter Chiari, Delia Scala

An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.

Il mago per forza

Marino Girolami, Vittorio Metz

Sophia Loren, Tino Scotti

In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.