Giovanni Grasso

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Cast: Folco Lulli

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Giovanni Grasso

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eduardo Ciannelli

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rossano Brazzi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mario Ferrari

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cesco Baseggio

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Umberto Spadaro

A man sentenced to life imprisonment who escaped from prison, commits suicide so as not to be an obstacle for his wife and daughter, who had built a...

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Cast: Giovanni Grasso

A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ferruccio Tagliavini

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giorgio De Lullo

A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Frau

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giovanni Grasso

When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Directed by Amleto Palermi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irma Gramatica

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

Directed by Romolo Marcellini.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fosco Giachetti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giovanni Grasso

In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gino Cervi

Genre: Music

Cast: Pierre Cressoy

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Filippo Romito

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Taranto

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otello Toso

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lída Baarová

Venice Film Festival 1941

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oretta Fiume

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Berti

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

"Spy Heart" - A fisherman is seduced by a young spy who has helped his brother, blind from birth, to get a job as a singer on the radio. But the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Belmont

Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giovanni Grasso

Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isa Pola

Venice Film Festival 1938

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Doris Duranti

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Fiore

A countryside adventure: two siblings, ill at ease in a subordinate social position, challenge the owner Alessandro; Giuseppe doesn’t want to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luisella Viviani

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marina Vlady

At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fosco Giachetti

Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is forced to postpone his trip and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Lamoureux

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alida Valli

A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Estrellita Castro

Genre: Comedy

Cast: María Mercader

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renée Faure

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Cast: Tina Xeo

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Cast: Pina Menichelli

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Turi Pandolfini

An 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Sernas

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlo Ninchi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: María Mercader