Acting
Carlo Benetti
Acting credits
6.2Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.
Assunta Spina
1915
7.0Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information. All is proceeding according to plan until Diana slowly gets torn by on the one hand her duty as a spy, and on the other her passionate feelings for Captain Argo.
Diana, the Enchantress
1915
No synopsis available yet.
La grande passione
1923
6.3Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.
Cainà
1922
No synopsis available yet.
The Call from the Past
1921
7.0The film depicts the daring endeavors of Michele Pezza, the patriot/ bandit who opposed the Napoleonic occupation of the Kingdom of Naples at the turn of the 19th century.
Fra Diavolo
1925
5.8La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s father disapproves of the relationship and convinces Marguerite to leave Armand, making him believe that she has left him for another man.
The Lady of the Camellias
1915
6.7A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
Kif Tebbi
1928
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La bocca chiusa
1925
7.0Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite and aristocratic heiress. Two sides of a woman with a split personality.
Ivonne, la bella danzatrice
1915
8.0An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives.
Fedora
1916
Directed by Emilio Ghione. Lost film.
Nelly the Fast Girl
1915
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Odette
1916
9.0No synopsis available yet.
L'avvocato difensore
1934