Mario Parpagnoli

I promessi sposi

Mario Bonnard

Emilia Vidali, Domenico Serra

Based on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy "northern Italy" during the Spanish domination, tells of the contrasted marriage between the two young textile workers Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is the most ambitious and spectacular film in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that triggered the censorship.

L' ospite sconosciuta

Telemaco Ruggeri

Pina Menichelli, Mario Parpagnoli

Maddalena Ferat

Roberto Roberti, Febo Mari

Francesca Bertini, Giorgio Bonaiti

Thaïs

Anton Giulio Bragaglia

Thaïs Galitzky, Ileana Leonidoff

The beautiful Thaïs Galitzy plays Vera, a Slavic countess, a seductress who drags married men to the brink of ruin. When she seduces the husband of her best friend, all involved meet a nasty fate.

Adiós Argentina

Mario Parpagnoli

Ada Cornaro, Pierina Dealessi

Il poeta, la fanciulla e la laguna

Carmine Gallone

Clarence Bell, Soava Gallone

A Venetian girl falls in love with a poet. But the latter is too cynical and boastful to bother to reply to the young girl's passionate letter and instructs his secretary, a shy dreamer, to keep the exchange of letters alive. From this intertwining of letters, a tender love is born between the girl and the secretary.