A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he...

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo...

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences...

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who...

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with...

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she...

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto...

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor...

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly...

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better...

Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life...

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his...

A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or...