Writing

Aldo De Benedetti

Born — Died

1892-08-13 — 1970-01-19

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Nobody's Children poster
7.4

The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to their baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: first she sends her son abroad and then has the baby kidnapped, making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.

Nobody's Children

1951

If I Was Honest poster
8.5

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.

If I Was Honest

1942

The Ship of Condemned Women poster
6.5

After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo. Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva, Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.

The Ship of Condemned Women

1953

The White Angel poster
6.4

In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for his former lover.

The White Angel

1955

The Lucky Five poster
7.4

Four 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

Scano Boa poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scano Boa

1961

O Amante de Minha Mulher poster
3.7

Alberto Verani is a married farmer and a relentless womanizer. When his wife Marina is away he tries to seduce Condessa Arduini sending her a bouquet signed anonymously. However Marina is the one to find the gift and hides it from Alberto, believing she have a secret admirer. So the husband keeps sending her flowers to test the fidelity while an outsider man discovers the plot and start to takes advantage of it.

O Amante de Minha Mulher

1979

Voce senza volto poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Voce senza volto

1939

Torna! poster
5.5

Cousins James and Robert are in love with Susanna. When Robert and Susanna announce their engagement, James vows to ruin their happiness.

Torna!

1954

Unfaithfully Yours poster
5.8

An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husband) refresh their old passions via their common flat. In the second a well-to-do dentist-wife is attacked by her petty bourgeois family when she writes a sex novel.

Unfaithfully Yours

1982

Four Steps in the Clouds poster
7.4

Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.

Four Steps in the Clouds

1942

Tormento del passato poster
7.0

A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.

Tormento del passato

1952

Lieutenant Giorgio poster
8.0

A lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. After a few years he discovers that the woman was married to an invalid and that the meeting had been organized to ensure an heir for the family

Lieutenant Giorgio

1952

The Slave of Sin poster
4.8

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.

The Slave of Sin

1954

My Seven Little Sins poster
5.5

The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son, Edouard, and a stylish valet, Antonio. This peaceful life is disrupted by a battalion of penniless girls living in a neighboring villa. Luisella has the nerve to introduce herself to André de Courvallon as his daughter, and immediately her comrades follow suit. The supposed father is not fooled, but his son takes it badly, especially as he has fallen in love with Luisella. Fairy tales always have happy endings.

My Seven Little Sins

1954

Red Roses poster
8.0

A comedy of errors about marriage and infidelity.

Red Roses

1940

You Love Me, I Love You poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

You Love Me, I Love You

1939

Revelation poster
7.7

A young communist discovers the power of faith.

Revelation

1955

Grace poster
NR

Based on a short story written by Novel Prize for Literature in 1894, Grazia Deladda, “La Grazia” is a classic Italian-drama that follows the story of the a man (Giorgio Bianchi) who fell in love with beautiful shepherdess (Carmen Boni). Separated by fate, the man had an accident on his way back to his wife. For years, absence of her husband has made the woman suffer. She takes care of her child while waiting for her husband’s return.

Grace

1929

Mademoiselle Gobete poster
5.5

A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.

Mademoiselle Gobete

1952

He Who Is Without Sin... poster
6.7

Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent to jail, Stefano finds out and decides to annul their marriage.

He Who Is Without Sin...

1952

It Happens in Roma poster
4.9

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.

It Happens in Roma

1955

The Virtuous Bigamist poster
6.3

The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.

The Virtuous Bigamist

1956

Stasera niente di nuovo poster
7.0

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.

Stasera niente di nuovo

1942

The Misery of Mr. Travet poster
5.9

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.

The Misery of Mr. Travet

1945

Eugenia Grandet poster
7.5

Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.

Eugenia Grandet

1946

Rice Girl poster
5.7

The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.

Rice Girl

1956

How I Lost the War poster
6.5

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.

How I Lost the War

1947

Professor, My Son poster
7.0

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

Professor, My Son

1946

Position Wanted poster
8.3

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...

Position Wanted

1951

La casa del peccato poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La casa del peccato

1938

Partenza ore 7 poster
6.5

The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.

Partenza ore 7

1946

La voce senza volto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La voce senza volto

1939

30 Seconds of Love poster
10.0

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

30 Seconds of Love

1936

Taxi di notte poster
7.0

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Taxi di notte

1950

The Voice of Love poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Voice of Love

1946

What Scoundrels Men Are! poster
7.1

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…

What Scoundrels Men Are!

1932

Il corsaro poster
6.2

Early Italian pirate adventure.

Il corsaro

1923

Tormento poster
6.7

Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.

Tormento

1950

Adán y la serpiente poster
6.8

A hotel becomes very popular when rumors begin to circulate about a ghost wandering its corridors.

Adán y la serpiente

1946