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- A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
- A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
- A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
- The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
- Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
- A flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.
- Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
- Princess Zeila must choose a prince from among all the princes in Baghdad, despite the evil plotting of Jafar to thwart her hopes.
- A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.
- While awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went through three American distributors in three years; first Motion Picture Sales Corporation that passed it off to Eagle Lion and finally to United Artists when they acquired Eagle Lion properties. Anna Magnani, a prostitute, is banished from Naples and returns to her home, a volcanic island off of southern Italy. There, she is accepted only by her younger sister and younger brother, and takes whatever job she can to get by. Rossano Brazzi, a diver by trade but a procurer for a prostitution ring---the white slave trade in those days---sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister who has fallen in love with him. Anna sleeps with Brazzi to convince the sister he is bad news but the sister thinks otherwise. Later, on Brazzi's boat, Anna is pumping air to him while he is on an underwater dive and she resorts to the only course she has left to save her sister. She stops pumping. Feeling guilt and remorse she then climbs the island volcano as it begins erupting.
- A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
- A teacher writes sample letters to a fictional Mr. Hartman with her students, but the recipient really exists.
- A well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games.
- In 1902 in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes, a disease-ridden region, 12-year-old Maria Goretti lives with her parents, poor farmhands, in the house of Serenelli, a heavy-drinking farmer who offered them board and lodging. Serenelli's 18-year-old son Alessandro is sexually attracted to the pious Maria, who resists his advances. One day the young man murders her because she won't give in to him. Before she dies, Maria forgives her assailant. After her death she is canonized as a saint.
- Roman coachman Totò doesn't want his coach to be replaced by cars, and he definitely does not want his beloved daughter Nannarella go out with taxicab driver Roberto. But when he gets into trouble, of all people it is Roberto who rescues him.
- A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
- What to do when you are nicknamed Bluebeard and you have lost your your sixth wife? Marry a seventh one of course! This time around, Count de Salfère has chosen young Aline, the innkeeper's daughter. So much the worse if the belle already has a lover in the person of Giglio, little does it matter that the villagers accuse Bluebeard of having murdered his former wives, the proud papa says yes to the count. The wedding takes place with all the pomp and circumstance expected by all but the wedding night is less impressive as "Bluebeard" falls asleep, failing to honor his young wife. And just guess what the blushing bride does the next morning? She of course goes to the secret room to know everything about the secret beyond the door. But what she sees once the door is opened with the mysterious golden key has nothing to do with the legend...
- The story of Saint Rita of Cascia,a rare example of mother and wife. Rita,daughter of a couple of poor peasants, is promised to God.One day, she saves a killer from death.He wants to marry her because of her kindness and she accepts with the intent of saving his soul.She becomes mother of two good sons but,with the death of their father,they want a revenge and they die.Rita,alone in the world,is called by God.She spent the rest of her life as a good nun.
- Recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio.
- When two men (Vittorio de Sica and Paolo Stoppa) trade identities in this thoroughly enjoyable farce, they are forced to maintain the charade much longer than they initially intended and end up in situations neither could have imagined.
- A story about the comic adventures of a group of summertime travelers.
- Inspired by the activity of the medical squadrons, piloted exclusively by female nurses on the Russian front of the Second World War.
- Literary adaptation: A young professor fallen into poverty and an orphan girl who has become his fiancee find work in the mansion of an elderly count, whose son rapes the young woman, forcing the two lovers to separate for a time.
- A wealthy colonist and his handsome foreman "help" the natives to exploit their land .Enter the old man's daughter who falls in love with the handsome collaborator,but the boss is not prepared to accept it.The young man is ignominiously fired. He runs away with one of the natives (who has already got a husband).To make sure the boy will stay with her,the black woman gives him a "magic" potion :he becomes her white slave .When his former love comes to his rescue,he hardly knows her and tells her he 's forgotten everything.Will she be able to snatch the unfortunate guy from this perverse woman's clutches?
- Unforgettable drama starred by Anna Magnani. The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
- 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.
- Soap opera: A fallen woman, battered by fate and scorned by her family, falls in love with a young magistrate but is prevented from acknowledging her past to the man.
- Lawyer De Sica is drawn into the marriage problems of his glamorous neighbor.
- 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.
- In the sleepy mountain village of Pianazzo, where the major occupation appears to be smuggling, the people exist in relative peace despite their poverty. It's a "little world" presided over by a parish priest, Don Candido, and a Mayor who is also the town barber. Then a young schoolteacher, a communist, roars into town on her motorbike and shakes things up with her political talk. Gian, one of the young smugglers, is smitten with the newcomer, but he finds he must leave town on account of a conflict that has arisen between the locals and others who want to build a dyke in the area. The teacher, who returns Gian's feelings, pursues him to Milan, where they enjoy some happiness... until she unexpectedly deserts him. This time it is Gian who does the pursuing, back to Pianazzo, where he discovers that his lover is pregnant and has left him "to give him his freedom." Far from desiring such freedom, Gian is delighted with the news of the baby. But his joy will be short-lived: now that he's back in town, his friend Biondino persuades him to make another smuggling run.
- An elegant woman is mistaken for an aristocrat, in this example of a frivolous white telephone comedy, complete with art deco settings and period popular music.
- Ciro Verrati, famed Italian fencing champion, stars as a soldier who turns pirate to avenge his honor. Nerio Barnardi plays the villain, and Slivan Jachino is on hand to provide the romance and decoration, outside of the many fight sequences. Shown in the USA with no English sub-titles.
- 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.
- When Alidoro weaves his magic spell, everything falls into place.
- A historical illustration of the prophetic vision of St. John the Evangelist. A few decades after the edict of Constantine, Julian the Apostate reestablishes pagan worship and persecutes Christians; but divine punishment reaches him.
- After a poor childhood, Eleonora Duse becomes the great actress that the whole world admires.
- A young lady is employed by a millionaire. She is kidnapped instead of the rich woman by a gang, on behalf of people who were interested in the rich woman's disappearance. She is brought to a special hotel, where the guests are people who are imprisoned because their families wanted to get rid of them. The rich woman is finally able to convince a police officer to investigate the strange vanishing. A prisoner goes mad and sets fire to the prison, which could not have been detected otherwise, freeing the disappeared at last.
- Everyone burdens their troubles in a little Italian village on the local pastor.
- It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Suzette to the farm of an Italian working class family.She really doesn't like the country or her in laws.