
Acting
Luigi Cimara
Acting credits
5.5A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
A Breath of Scandal
1960
7.5Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
100 Years of Love
1954
6.5Baron Oddo de Serra who is cruel to his subjects, is neighbor of the Count Gualtiero of Roccalta. The servants of the baron cross the lands of Count to escape his abuses. Baron hatches a plot to assassinate the earl.
Captain Falcon
1958
10.0The singer Cécile Hervey celebrates great achievements, while her sister Elda lives quietly with her aunt Claire on land. Elda is engaged to neighbor Bruno Leveson, but is irresistibly attracted by his brother Raoul, which she will marry. Raoul cheats on her, even before the marriage, with her sister Cecile.
Caino
1918
6.0The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena.
Sant'Elena, piccola isola
1943
7.0Hot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed films released within same week. Like the earlier picture, Loyalty is a historical drama. During the period in which Italy was under Austrian rule, Count Federico (Nerio Bernardi) fights tirelessly to free his people from oppression. The Count's wife Teresa (Marta Alba) remains loyally by his side, even when he is unfaithful to her, which is often. Federico doesn't realize how important Teresa is to him, nor how much he loves her, until it's almost too late. At time of the release of Loyalty of Love, star Marta Alba had transferred her base of operations to New York, where she starred in Broadway production of Tovarich.
Loyalty of Love
1934
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La nemica
1952
NRAngelo Musco leaves his small town in Sicily to go to Rome for an operation. Once there, he decides he likes that continental air and proceeds to acquire a veneer of same...and also acquires a dancer, sporting-and-claiming an even-larger dose of Continental Veneer. They return together to Sicily with Musco under the impression she comes from the continent. Leda's clothes, manners, habits and flirting ways start a small revelation-style revolution, which is not to Musco's liking. He ships Leda back to Rome, but not before learning that he has been taken in by a Scilian native, as Leda was born in a near-by town.
Continental Atmosphere
1936
7.4Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
The Lucky Five
1952
9.0An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Primo amore
1941
5.2A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Times Gone By
1952
No synopsis available yet.
Il piccolo re
1939
7.0The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
The Last Days of Pompeo
1937
5.8A humble girl looks so much like a capricious movie star that she gets to replace her both on the set and in her private life.
Dora Nelson
1939
10.0"Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and jealousy. A letter from a local priest that implicates "Antonio" in the murder of an English nobleman comes to light and soon they are all before the King.
The Boatman of Amalfi
1954
8.5Eva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her.
Adam and Eve
1949
9.0Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
The Operator
1932
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
NRMario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.
Lulù
1953
A young girl learns that she is the daughter of an executed politician and conspires to avenge her father's memory.
The King's Jester
1935
10.0The Turin noblewoman Maria Clotilde di Bard, the sole and elderly heir to an ancient Savoyard title, is reduced to living in the attics of the palace due to the embezzlement of a dishonest administrator. The young lady, who has always been alone due to a great love that never led to marriage with Baron Nigra, befriends the daughter of the palace owner, who tells her about her love for an aeronautical engineer: an unhappy love, because her father is against it. Maria Clotilde discovers that the young man is her brother's illegitimate son, taken away at an early age and never recognized, and therefore the sole heir to the Bard name. The shady administrator also ruins the new owners, who find themselves penniless. But in a trunk kept by the damsel there is years of correspondence between her and Baron Nigra, whose immense historical value restores the Bard family to its former glory and thus allows for a happy ending with the marriage of the two young people.
The Bard's Damsel
1936
10.0After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
Validità giorni dieci
1940
10.0Paris, second half of the 20th century. Countess Diana de Simerose has been evading the legitimate rights of her husband, who married her without love, since their wedding day. Fed up with the protracted abnormal situation, the count leaves on a journey, perhaps never to return.
L'amico delle donne
1943
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Luna di miele
1941