
Acting
Franco Pastorino
Acting credits
6.0A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
Ghost Captain
1953
7.2Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
French Cancan
1955
6.5In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Toto the Third Man
1951
NRDuring the bombings of the Second World War, actors and extras engaged in rehearsals at the Teatro di San Carlo rush into the air-raid shelter, and there the extra Carla and the airman Renato fall in love, but will be divided by death. This is Rossellini's segment for the omnibus film "Mid-Century Loves".
Naples 1943
1954
8.0Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Poverty and Nobility
1954
After WWII, "Jack Grandi" falls in love with a young girl only to find that there is an historical enmity between his family and her's. Can their love survive the accusations of treason and betrayal?
Trieste cantico d'amore
1954
5.2Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Mid-Century Loves
1954
NRThe adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
La campana di San Giusto
1954
6.3A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
Poppy
1952
7.0Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
The Devil's Daughter
1952
10.0After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
Porta un bacione a Firenze
1955
Three shady-looking men arrive at a small mountain inn in an attempt to recover the treasure hidden in the hotel by the old owner and her grandson, who was killed by the three crooks. During dinner, the waitress recounts the legend of the mountain rooster. If the rooster crows at midnight, it warns that the angel of death is coming for one of the inhabitants of the house.
Il gallo canta a mezzanotte
1958