Alessandro Blasetti

La lunga strada del ritorno

Alessandro Blasetti

Una vita difficile

Dino Risi

Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Bellissima

Luchino Visconti

Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari

Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.

4 passi fra le nuvole

Alessandro Blasetti

Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....

Simón Bolívar

Alessandro Blasetti

Maximilian Schell, Rosanna Schiaffino

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

Un giorno nella vita

Alessandro Blasetti

Elisa Cegani, Massimo Girotti

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.

La tavola dei poveri

Alessandro Blasetti

Raffaele Viviani, Leda Gloria

A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor.

Nerone

Alessandro Blasetti

Ettore Petrolini, Grazia del Rio

Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.

Resurrectio

Alessandro Blasetti

Lia Franca, Daniele Crespi

A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.

Europa di notte

Alessandro Blasetti

Alba Arnova, The Princesse Badia

A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.

Terra madre

Alessandro Blasetti

Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini

The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.

Io amo, tu ami

Alessandro Blasetti

Giuliano Gemma, Nadia Lara

Documentary directed by Alessandro Blasetti.

Il Caso Haller

Alessandro Blasetti

Marta Abba, Memmo Benassi

Based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau.

Peccato che sia una canaglia

Alessandro Blasetti

Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

La cena delle beffe

Alessandro Blasetti

Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

Prima comunione

Alessandro Blasetti

Aldo Fabrizi, Gaby Morlay

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.