Amedeo Nazzari

An actor is preparing for his next role in a film which is a tribute to the 1950's Italian weepies. He asks for advice to Amedeo Nazzari, the matinee idol star of many of them. (bfi)

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them. (imdb)

Epic film about the founding of Rumania by the Roman General Trajan. (bfi)

Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the USA Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more in a violent bomb chase. In the end, Barelli's accomplices are dead or arrested, but he escapes unmolested, while Mr. Dynamite spends time in a Mediterranean resort with a lovely woman. (imdb)

A delegation of Italian movie makers go to Argentina to attend to a film festival.

Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations. (imdb)

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue. (TCM.com)

The story of an eighteenth century hero fighting for the people against the French in the kingdom of Naples. (bfi)

This film tells of the Italo-Biblical legend of Nefertiti who originally was a woman forced into marriage. (allrovi.com)

A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt. (imdb)

The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an uneven drama. Anthony Franciosa is the artist, and Ava Gardner plays his paramour, the Duchess of Alba. While the Prime Minister of Spain schemes to betray his country to Napoleon's forces and the Spanish Inquisition is winding to a close (overplayed here) Goya is trying to survive the pangs of love he feels for the aloof Duchess. (allmovie.com)

Lucas is an orphan who lives with his mother Mary, a worker in a factory in Barcelona. One day they meet Captain Andres. (imdb)

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finding only heartbreak. (imdb)

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed the girl to the limit taking advantage of her enters her life again. The crisis which ensues will help the newly weds to overcome their differences and start a new life. (imdb)

Guido is an engineer with a seemingly happy life finds himself experiencing loss and emotional pain.

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war. (imdb)

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom. (imdb)

Cousins Giacomo and Roberto are in love with Susanna. When Roberto and Susanna announce their engagement, Giacomo vows to ruin their happiness. (mubi)

Anna Zaccheo (Silvana Pampanini) is desperate for true love. Alas, Anna is so gorgeous that true love is the last thing most men have on their minds. She manages to get by with the help of several wealthy male friends, until finally she meets the man of her dreams -- a poverty-stricken sailor (Massimo Girotti). (hollywood.com)

The story of forbidden love between the owner of a quarry and the daughter of one of his workers.

The action takes place in Naples at the turn of the century and shows the different methods used by the police and the District Attorney to discover the real authors of a double murder. (bfi)

When a young woman is mistakenly imprisoned for her sister’s crime of abandoning her own child, her husband who works abroad decides to nullify their marriage. (Mubi)

Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is shattered of course and when after many years he is released from prison, he seeks revenge. (imdb)

An Italian sailor rebuilds his post-war life in Buenos Aires.

Anna, feeling oppressed by her step mother, runs off with her boyfriend, but things don't go as planned.

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial. (imdb)

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.

A seemingly perfect family begins to fall apart when the draw of infidelity appears.

Story of a girls revenge on the family who were responsible for her brother's death. (bfi)

Adaptation of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter.

The title character is Ernesto (Amadeo Nazzari), who turns to crime after suffering shell shock during WW II. Magnani plays Ernesto's faithful girlfriend Lydia. Their relationship is as foredoomed as Ernesto himself, who comes to grief through an extreme act of self-sacrifice. (allmovie.com)

An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he'd had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught. (Letterboxd)

Gianneto and Neri clash for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva, and Gianneto thirsts for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabriello.

The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.

A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.

Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal. Still, Grace falls for Phil Golder, a violinist penniless. The director of the residence will notice and the best friend of the girl impersonate violinist girlfriend to try to save Grace dismissal.

1859: Capotosta, an Italian thug, is being chased by the cops. When some fellas kidnap a young girl, they pretend to be part of his gang.

Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America (imdb)

Umberto 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. (imdb)