Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes... Read full bio →
Io, io, io.... e gli altri
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Amore e chiacchiere (Salviamo il panorama)
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war.
Prima comunione
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 communion frock.
Nessuno torna indietro
Seven young women in a boarding house in Rome during WWII: their aspirations and future hopes.Several keep memories of soldiers who are no longer alive, while others find new loves: a professor, an industrialist, a blind man.
Quelli della montagna
Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.
La cena delle beffe
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto.
4 passi fra le nuvole
Paolo Bianchi è un commesso viaggiatore che, conosciuta una ragazza incinta ma non maritata, la aiuta a ritornare presso la sua famiglia, decisamente all'antica, fingendosi il suo compagno.
La corona di ferro
Nel regno di Kindaor, il fratricida Sedesmondo diventa reggente e s'impadronisce del regno. Scampa all'eccidio il principino Arminio.
Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa
Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, and Osvaldo Valenti star in this Italian swashbuckler which would have starred Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks had it been made in Hollywood. Salvatore Rosa was a versatile poet and painter of landscapes and battles.
Ettore Fieramosca
ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833.
1860
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land.
Resurrectio
A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
Sole!
Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event in Fascist political history.