Known for
5.2After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Animal Crackers
1939
6.8Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
Beach Types
1959
9.0A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.
Tonight at Eleven
1937
6.2In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
Hands Off Me!
1937
NRThe adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
La campana di San Giusto
1954
6.0A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
Rigoletto
1955
Film credits
1960s · 2 titles
6.4Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
Those Two in the Legion
1962
5.8Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
The Employee
1960
1950s · 6 titles
6.8Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
Beach Types
1959
NRThe adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
La campana di San Giusto
1954
6.0A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
Rigoletto
1955
NRAn Italian historical drama.
La prigioniera di Amalfi
1954
9.0An Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a hospital ship. Through the efforts of his sweetheart, a witness is found who proves the bombing was not intentional but the result of being hit by enemy fire. A four-way romantic involvement is also part of the mix that includes an Allied officer and Viennse beauty Lida. The latter was once in love with the accused and has a child by him.
Fugitive in Trieste
1952
6.8Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
Toto the Sheik
1950
1940s · 17 titles
10.0Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt.
L'ebreo errante
1948
9.0A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.
The Prisoner of Santa Cruz
1941
6.8Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
Totò Looking for a House
1949
6.9An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Aquila Nera
1946
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Merchant of Slaves
1942
7.5The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eternal Melody
1940
7.0Anna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by Mario Morelli, a poet and songwriter perpetually waiting for great success, and a painter, Enrico Bovio, who cannot find the inspiration or the model for a portrait of a woman he wants to finish. Both are short of money and, convinced of the brilliance of their ideas, wish to open that bizarre business, called precisely the "Bazaar of Ideas".
Il bazar delle idee
1940
5.9Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
The Siege of the Alcazar
1940
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Boccaccio
1940
10.0Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.
Manon Lescaut
1940
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La sepolta viva
1949
6.7In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Fifa e arena
1948
7.0Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
Furia
1947
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Adulteress
1946
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Brute Force
1941
8.0Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
Il trovatore
1949
7.0During a visit to a large department store, a famous female singer has her handbag stolen.
The Last Mistake
1940
1930s · 7 titles
5.2After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Animal Crackers
1939
9.0A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.
Tonight at Eleven
1937
6.2In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
Hands Off Me!
1937
8.0An electronic engineer is called by the Hungarian Television Directorate to test the new television installations. He arrives in the capital, Budapest, together with his girlfriend.
A Thousand Lire a Month
1939
An Italian film from 1939.
Return, Most Beloved
1939
6.6Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army.
White Squadron
1936
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ballo al castello
1939
