Photograph of King Vittorio Emanuele III. The ship Italia, formerly König Albert, under the command of Count Carlos Grenet and with the Italian ambassador Giovanni Giuriati, entering the port of Rio Grande, on May 2: events and groups of Italian reservists for their reception; popular and authorities, representatives of societies and the cities of Cachoeiro and Pelotas, music band, including a representative of the fascism of Caxias, present at the reception.
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
Italský film, který na pozadí příběhu nezaměstnaného dělníka podává realistický obraz sociálních poměrů dnešní Itálie. Hlavnímu hrdinovi filmu hrozí, že hned po nastoupení práce v novém zaměstnání, které těžce získal, se znovu ocitne na dlažbě, poněvadž mu kdosi ukradl jízdní kolo, které je pro lepiče plakátů podmínkou zaměstnání. Všechno další úsilí hrdiny filmu směřuje k tomu, aby nalezl zloděje a získal zpět své kolo. Když se však přesvědčí o marnosti tohoto počínání, rozhodne se v zoufalství stát se sám zlodějem. Je však na místě dopaden, a vděčí jen soucitu toho, kterého chtěl okrást, že není odevzdán policii. Ruku v ruce se svým osmiletým synkem, který ho všude dporovází, kráčí pak uprostřed davu lhostejných lidí vstříc další nejistotě v nezaměstnanosti. Bezútěšné dějové vyústění tohoto příběhu, líčeného v sytých realistických barvách, je v plném souladu s bezútěšným postavením statisíců těch, kteří v dnešní Italii živoří v bídě a nezaměstnanosti.
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario Costa. The film stars Tito Gobbi and Gina Lollobrigida. It recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. The only actor in the cast who also sang his role was the celebrated Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi, but the film is largely very faithful to its source material, presenting the opera nearly complete.
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of an encounter between his wife and an American GI. Released in America as "Angelo"
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
A young man is a servant in the court of a great king of Dalmatia.He was bought when he was still a child ,but he is a high-born gentleman.
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Italská filmová veselohra ze současného vesnického života. Je první částí v celém světě populárního seriálu filmů, nazvaných „Chléb, láska a...". Jeho hrdiny jsou prostí italští lidé: dobrácký četnický strážmistr, který by si rád hrál na svůdce žen, ale nedovede to, mladý zamilovaný karabiník, vesnická krasavice, jejímž „neštěstím" je její krása spojená s beznadějnou chudobou... a desítky dalších, nesmírně životných postav, jejichž prostřednictvím poznáváme život v italské horské vsi v nejrůznějších podobách a zejména v té nejrozšířenější: v podobě bídy, dávající lidem vedle suchého chleba a lásky již jen fantasii pro zpestření života.
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Tony se brzy po návratu z vězení spojí s kamarády a přizvou si italského specialistu na trezory, aby společně vyloupili exkluzivní klenotnictví. Plán je technicky dokonale promyšlen, ale, jako skoro vždy, někdo z účastníků udělá fatální chybu. Napínavá a potemnělá atmosféra filmu noir by se tu dala přímo krájet… (50th KVIFF)
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.