Ivo Perilli

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer is a lone, swaggering sergeant whom the partisans briskly emasculate. Escorted out of town by the sheepish Nazis, the forlorn ladies link up, patriotically and romantically, with a band of tough mountain guerrillas. Directed by Martin Ritt ("Norma Rae"). (imdb)

An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. (imdb)

A movie for italian television about the life and struggles of the great painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. (imdb)

After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum. (worldcat)

Melodrama of an orphan girl falsely accused of theft. She falls in love with the defense counsel, has his child, and is accused by him of murder of the original villain. But all ends well. (bfi)

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur. (imdb)

Silvana Mangano (a very lovely & sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. She is struggling with an difficult life as a shop assistant when one day a young count Enrico sees her in the glass shop where she works. She gets invited to the masquerade ball (ah - if they would have parties like this now - oh wow) with the help of her unscrupulous boyfriend Mario's dirty deal with the count - the glorious evening does not turn out well, not at all.

A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail. (imdb)

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

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

Lumbardy, Italy, seventeenth century. Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry. (imdb)

Adriana, a young mother, and her baby, are abandoned by her former lover Diego. Adriana later finds a job at a large hairdresser's and looks to lead a dignified life with her daughter. Mario, the accountant of the shop, begins to court her, yet Adriana's shame at her child out of wedlock sees her shun his advances, and her life is plunged back into chaos when Diego returns on the scene.

Jolanda discovers she is not the daughter of the gypsy who raised her, but of the Count of Ventimiglia, the Black Corsair, killed by Van Guld, the current governor of Maracaibo. (MUBI)

After years at the Russion front in WW II, the Italian soldier Bruno returns home. But he receives an anonymous letter warning him that during his absence, his fiancée Gina has begun an love affair with Tullio, his friend and workmate at a printing office. When Gina finds out that Tullio himself has written that letter, she questions the ulterior motives of her lover. And then, another anonymous letter triggers dramatic events. (imdb)