Lola est une jeune et jolie jeune fille fiancée avec Masetto, le fils du boulanger. Malheureusement, celui-ci est un peu vieux jeu. Il est convaincu qu'ils doivent demeurer vierges jusqu'à leur mariage. Bien sûr, la charmante Lola n'est pas de cet avis. Elle a beau multiplier les entreprises de séduction, Masetto résiste ! Elle se tourne donc vers André, un homme plus âgé et séduisant, possédant une solide expérience des aventures érotiques. Ses récits enflamment l'imagination de Lola qui commence à penser qu'il serait peut-être un bien meilleur amant que le jeune Masetto...
Madalena rentre dans son ile natale, à Vulcano. Elle a mauvaise réputation car elle sort de prison. Sa sœur est la seule à bien l'accueillir mais une violente rivalité éclate entre elles deux lorsqu'un homme louche arrive. Elle fera tout son possible pour sauver sa petite sœur des bras de l' homme qu'elle sait proxénète.
A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences
Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
Réalisé en extérieur, le long des berges du Pô, le premier documentaire de Michelangelo Antonioni a pour objet la vie des habitants de Porto Tolle.
1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
Ayant reçu une lettre d'amour qui ne lui était pas destinée, Carlo Hartman se rend à Rome pour rencontrer l'expéditrice, enseignante dans une pension pour jeunes filles.
The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
1949 movie version of the Rossini opera
Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Inspired by the activity of the medical squadrons, piloted exclusively by female nurses on the Russian front of the Second World War.
A short documentary on the production of rayon, shot in Torviscosa (Italy). It portrays the production of this new synthetic fabric in the small town of Torviscosa, entirely built following strict fascist canons.