Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.

Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.

The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling...

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

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...

Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor...

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 is...

The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena.

Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number,...

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

The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this...

The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very...

Italian film by Guido Brignone.

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.

Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to...

Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai...

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...

A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is...

A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.

The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock.

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by...

Venice Film Festival 1940

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her...

After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known...

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his...

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.

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.

A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words...