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- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsJennifer JonesMontgomery CliftGino CerviPrior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartJennifer JonesGina LollobrigidaOn their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsCharles BoyerDanielle DarrieuxVittorio De SicaWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsLucia BosèGino CerviAndrea ChecchiA new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsRita JosaRosanna CartaEnrico PellicciaSix separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsEtchika ChoureauJean-Pierre MockyJacques SempeyA trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a university student's involved in smuggling cigarettes. In the English episode, a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs, and tries to sell his story to the press.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsVittorio De SicaGina LollobrigidaMarisa MerliniWhen a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
- DirectorClemente FracassiStarsRenata TebaldiEbe StignaniGino BechiAida, featuring the actress Sophia Loren, is a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. The plot revolves around the character Radames who falls in love with what he thinks is a slave in a country his armies has conquered. The young woman is actually the daughter of the leader he ousted.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsMassimo GirottiLudmilla TchérinaYves Vincent74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniAlfredo GuariniRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanAnna MagnaniIsa MirandaFive portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsSimone SignoretRaf ValloneJacques DubyA truck driver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsMartine CarolPedro ArmendárizValentine TessierIn the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrètè. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband murdered. But without her brother's knowledge, Lucrècè has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsJuliette GrécoPhilippe LemaireYvonne SansonTherese is a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsGina LollobrigidaGabriele FerzettiFranco InterlenghiGemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a prostitute. She's desperate but in the end she asks her husband for help. She has learned to love him in the meantime.
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsKerimaMay BrittEttore ManniIsabella's family is noble but half-ruined, so her intended marriage with a dignitary of the kingdom appears as a godsend for all its members. But Isabella finds herself accused of infanticide after killing the baby she was carrying in secret and it is as if the whole sky fell in on the family. That just cannot be. The young woman's parents and perfidious Isabella herself are prepared to do anything to avoid scandal. And they do: they lure Consuelo, Isabella's cousin, into a trap so that it is she who takes the blame for the baby's death. Condemned to ten years of forced labor in a penal colony, Consuelo is embarked, amid over a hundred female convicts, on a special ship. A long, painful and eventful voyage begins.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelGino CerviArturo BragagliaEnergetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
- DirectorGiovanni RoccardiStarsSophia LorenSteve BarclayUmberto MelnatiThe troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea diving expedition in the Red Sea and falls in love with the captain.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelZsa Zsa GaborLouis SeignerJoe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clothes to kids, his boss is adamant against his wearing glasses as cowboys and glasses don't go together. After a series of near-blind misadventures, Joe is fired. Dejected, he goes to the movies and seats himself next to a dangerous gangster and, when he leaves, takes the man's raincoat. In the subway, on a crowded train, he removes a heavy object from coat pocket. It's a gun and the passengers are in a panic and Joe is arrested, and the police announce they have captured Public Enemy No. 1. The leader's mob, unaware that it isn't their boss the police have, plan an escape, with most of the plans made by gun moll Lola (Zsa Zsa Gabor.) Soon, Joe finds both the police and the gangsters after him.
- DirectorAndré HunebelleStarsGeorges MarchalYvonne SansonGino CerviD'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- DirectorGianni VernuccioStarsSabuLuisella BoniLuigi TosiA fun fantasy classic for the entire family. In this exotic adventure, young hero Sabu is living in a remote Hindu village. There he must protect the town treasure, the world's largest ruby, from being stolen.
- DirectorAnton Giulio MajanoStarsMaria FioreSophia LorenVittorio SanipoliIn the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsMicheline PresleMassimo GirottiGaby MorlayMarie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home. Despite her strong feelings for André, Marie refuses to give up her vocation and the two lovers part. Marie finds herself alone, with a broken heart.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniVittorio De SicaStarsEduardo De FilippoVittorio De SicaAnna Maria FerreroVilla Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsAldo FabriziJean MaraisDaniel GélinA group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. They comprise of a candle-maker, a politician, an ex-prisoner, a novelist and a petty thief trying to elude the police. All have their own spiritual problems to solve, except the thief. The politician, a former partisan leader, suffers the remorse of causing the deaths of three innocent men on a sabotage mission; he is set for the priesthood. The prisoner, a sick and possibly dying man, lacks the courage to visit his wife who is now happily remarried; his padre has advised him to leave her alone. The novelist bears the moral responsibility for offences committed by young people led astray by his writings; he earns a lot for his work, but is too demoralized to continue. Then the candle-maker - miserly, smooth-talking and bigoted - is unlikely to receive any benefit from his retreat to the monastery. Interwoven with the stories of these men is the drama of a priest who, overwhelmed by doubt, still finds the inner force to go forward. In the end the thief repents and leaves the monastery after making an offering to the Madonna of his stolen goods.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsGabriele FerzettiMärta TorénNadia GrayThis biographical story of Puccini (Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madame Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Märta Torén), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsKerimaEttore ManniMay BrittA woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsCarlo DapportoNilla PizziMario CarotenutoIgnazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsMicheline PresleGino CerviRoland AlexandreYoung and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a courtesan and they both settle down in the country. Tthe beginning of their idyll is like a dream but a short-lived one as their relationship is considered scandalous by Armand's family. During a secret visit to Marguerite, Armand's father convinces her to leave his son, which she does broken-heartedly but out of love for Armand. Her end will be doubly tragic; not only does she suffer from terminal tuberculosis but she is abandoned by everyone, including by Armand, who believes she has betrayed her. At long last, learning the truth, Armand rushes to her bedside and Marguerite has the joy to breathe her last in his arms.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsGabriele FerzettiIrene GalterPina BottinA young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsGina LollobrigidaMay BrittPierre CressoyAn industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. This leads to a series of thefts, blackmail and a suicide as well.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsMay BrittEttore ManniKerimaIn Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
- DirectorRay EnrightEdoardo AntonStarsGeorge RaftGianna Maria CanaleMassimo SeratoAn American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.
- DirectorHenri DecoinFernando PalaciosStarsAlida ValliPedro ArmendárizFrançoise ArnoulTo save her fiance who is opponent to regime, the beautiful Ines agrees to marry the chief of Toledo police.
- DirectorFerruccio CerioStarsPierre CressoyHélène RémyVittorio SanipoliRome, 1527. Massimo Colonna is in love with Angela, a member of the Orsinis, the Colonnas'arch enemies. As she is officially engaged to Tancredi Serra, the latter, a faithless individual, has Massimo accused of the murder of Prince Orsini whereas he himself has woven it. Massimo is rejected by an outraged Angela and banned from Rome.Meanwhile the Eternal City has to face a brutal attack by armed invaders from Spain. The Spaniards are about to storm Rome when Massimo and his troops appear. The invading forces are defeated and Massimo is acclaimed by the crowd. After clearing his name, he can marry Angela.
- DirectorClaudio GoraStarsMarcello MastroianniMassimo SeratoMarina BertiThe crisis of conscience among the youth of post World War II Italy, with their new moral and cultural values, in opposition to the traditional spiritual values of a previous generation.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsSilvana PampaniniAmedeo NazzariMassimo GirottiAnna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
- DirectorLionello De FeliceStarsMarina VladyPierre-Michel BeckAldo FabriziAndrea and Annetta are two fifteen year olds from very different families. They love each other and find in their love a refuge from the evils and problems of the world. However, the real troubles begin when the girl becomes pregnant.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsEleonora Rossi DragoPierre CressoyGirolamo ManiscoA team of Italian divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal Navy ships at anchor in Gibraltar harbour.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòOrson WellesViviane RomancePaolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsCosetta GrecoMarcello MastroianniLiliana BonfattiJoys and disappointments of three young girls who dreaming of making a career in film: Luisa has talent and triumphs; Franca tries to seduce a producer, however no artistic skills, Giuditta, the most inexperienced and naive, will have to choose between the dream of cinema and the reality of a marriage.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòMay BrittFranca FaldiniA clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòIgnazio BalsamoIsa BarzizzaA petty criminal poses as a Turkish eunuch hired by a wealthy merchant to guard the women of his house.
- DirectorMaurice LabroGiorgio SimonelliStarsPhilippe LemaireCatherine ErardClément DuhourCarlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones. He is saved by chance in the person of Marina, a charming young school teacher, who takes advantage of the presence of a radio crew in her village for the recording of a singing contest to broadcast an appeal in favor of Tonino, the most underprivileged of her pupils. She asks the listeners to send postcards from any place in the world to cheer up little Tonino. The response is enthusiastic and tons of mail land in the radio studios, at the same time boosting the audience of Calo's moribund program. Eventually, despite some trouble with a rare stamp, all ends well and Carlo marries Marina.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsErno CrisaMarisa BelliVincenzo MusolinoA Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniMassimo MidaStarsMassimo GirottiMarina BertiGiulietta MasinaIn Rome a young man is falsely accused of killing his girlfriend.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsPeppino De FilippoGiulietta MasinaArlette PoirierA bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young woman. When she doesn't answer her door, and is later found murdered - he panics.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsElena KleusPierre CressoyTamara Lees
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsPierre CressoyAnna Maria FerreroGaby AndréThe life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsAlida ValliAmedeo NazzariSerge ReggianiForced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.
- DirectorYves CiampiStarsDaniel GélinEleonora Rossi DragoBarbara LaageA young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured, he is injected with morphine. He becomes addicted.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelMadeleine SylvainGeorges ChamaratAfter his son leaves to join the army, a temperamental French baker learns a villager's new baby is his grandson.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsRossano BrazziEmma PenellaFosco GiachettiIn the nineteenth century, in Sierra Morena and in the Serranía de Ronda, a lot of bandoleros proliferated, who, alone or gathered in parties, sowed panic by assaulting and murdering travelers. Many of them were sung in poems that gave origin to the myth of the generous bandit. In fact, most of them were ruthless and unfeeling men. Nevertheless, one of them, Lucero, was considered in the whole mountain range like the paladin of the disinherited ones of fortune.
- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsAntonella LualdiPaul CampbellVera CarmiA small girl goes blind when her Mother is murdered.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsMay BrittMarc LawrenceRenato SalvatoriCollected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
- DirectorAntonio LeonviolaStarsFolco LulliSilvana PampaniniVincenzo MusolinoA chorus line girl, Virginia and a small time smuggler, Aldo try to be together and change their lives. He cannot find a job however while she has to bear lots of men making passes at her.
- DirectorPrimo ZeglioStarsFrank LatimoreAnna Maria SandriMaxwell ReedIn the early 1800's the Spanish regiments are celebrating their victory over the French Legions of Bonaparte. In the midst of the celebration, Miguel, Duke of Canabil, is summoned to his commander's quarters and given the news that his father, and Admiral in the Spanish Navy, has betrayed the crown of Spain by turning his fleet over to the enemy. The stunned Miguel, humiliated and scorned by his regiment, takes a blood oath to find out the truth about his father. His search leads him to the mystery ship "Asuncion", commanded by Ingio de Costa, an unscrupulous, vicious man with a hand for evil. The latter is also trying to get one of his evil hands on the fair Consuelo, daughter of the governor of Cadiz.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsNino TarantoAlda ManginiGino BuzzancaA Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
- DirectorClaudio GoraStarsSilvana PampaniniRobert LamoureuxCarlo CampaniniThe 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.
- DirectorPrimo ZeglioStarsGino CerviPaola BarbaraYvonne Sanson
- DirectorRenato RascelStarsRenato RascelValentina CortesePaolo StoppaA meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsAmedeo NazzariMyriam BruJacques Sernas
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsAnna Maria FerreroFrancesco PenzaPietro d'AddioAfter 5 die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.
- DirectorSergio GriecoStarsTino ScottiFranca MarziCarlo RomanoMr. Brown, a wealthy industrial man, is killed in a hotel with a dagger in the back. The police start the investigation.
- DirectorAntonio LeonviolaStarsMaria FrauFrank LatimoreFrançoise RosayComing of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and justice. Her opponent is the State Town's Inquisitor himself, who set her father's up to escape his own crimes.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsFrançois PérierAnne VernonHenri GénèsJacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in the village of Montigny. And instead of bathing in ecstasy as expected, Jacques and Gisèle become unwillingly entangled in the conflict that tears the villagers apart : should they continue to tolerate the presence of an American Army unit on municipal territory ?
- DirectorTanio BocciaStarsMaria FrauAldo FiorelliMarisa Merlini
- DirectorMario CostaStarsRaf ValloneAntonella LualdiTamara Lees
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsUgo TognazziElena GiustiVirgilio RientoSor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsMaria FioreHenri VidalCosetta Greco
- DirectorAldo FabriziStarsTotòLea PadovaniPeppino De FilippoRocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
- DirectorSolange TéracStarsJean-Pierre AumontSilvana PampaniniRenée FaureA young French,Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg ,an imaginary land,as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsBarbara LaageArmando FrancioliEduardo De FilippoUpdated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsAldo FabriziAnna Maria FerreroEnrico ViarisioAnna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsYvonne SansonSteve BarclayTamara Lees
- DirectorJean DevaivreStarsJean-Claude PascalGianna Maria CanaleErich von StroheimWhen 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.
- DirectorFilippo Walter RattiStarsPaolo StoppaIsa BarzizzaMarcello MastroianniA version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1950s Italy.
- DirectorMario SequiStarsGianni SantuccioLinda SiniSaro UrzìAfter a factory worker is killed, Sergio Bruni is placed on remand for two years before being released for lack of evidence. Shunned by his wife and his colleagues, he must now discover the true culprit.
- DirectorEnzo Di GianniStarsMarco VicarioEva NovaGuglielmo IngleseRenato and Maria Venturi find themselves in a difficult economic situation. Renato works hard to get financial help from an uncle, while Maria sings in a nightclub: their daughter, little Pia, is put in boarding school.