
Acting
Sandro Ruffini
Born 1889-09-20 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Acting credits
6.5A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.
La freccia nel fianco
1945
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La canzone rubata
1940
6.8Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
On Trial
1954
7.8Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
Difficult Years
1948
6.3A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.
Giallo
1934
7.0No synopsis available yet.
L'uomo del romanzo
1940
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La monaca di Monza
1947
10.0A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
The Man with the Grey Glove
1948
7.5The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eternal Melody
1940
7.5This 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.
The Young Caruso
1951
6.8The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
Giuseppe Verdi
1953
5.7This short documentary explores the world of Italian photo comics (fumetti), focusing on the models who posed as romantic heroes and heroines for popular illustrated stories. By contrasting their staged screen personas with their everyday lives, the film offers an observational look at a mass-culture phenomenon in postwar Italy.
Lies of Love
1949
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
1953
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La nemica
1952
7.4A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
Side Street Story
1950
NRDaniele Orsenigo, a young Venetian fighting for the unification of Italy, has an important message to deliver to the Carboneria of Parma.
Il cavaliere di San Marco
1939
9.0No synopsis available yet.
L'ultimo addio
1942
4.7In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
I mariti
1941
6.7The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Down with Misery!
1945
6.4Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
Sunday Heroes
1952
No synopsis available yet.
Cose dell'altro mondo
1939
7.0This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
Fedora
1942
7.0By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
Born of Unknown Father
1950
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Two Orphans
1954