BBC television program exploring Visconti’s mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction.

BBC television program exploring Visconti’s mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction.

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin’s blood. They’re welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who’s…

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.

All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The…

A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.

Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years.

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie (Vittorio De Sica).

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician,…

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged “black sheep” brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8…

The story of “King Lazzarone” Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises…

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything “immoral” – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a…

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to…

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed “Frisky”.

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…

A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten…

An old woman’s poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods…

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a…

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending…