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- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsItalia Almirante-ManziniLidia QuarantaBartolomeo PaganoCabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsBartolomeo PaganoUmberto GuarracinoMario SaioThe devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
- DirectorGabriellino D'AnnunzioGeorg JacobyStarsEmil JanningsElena SangroRina De LiguoroIn Rome, during the reign of Nero, a young pagan general named Marcus Vinicius falls in love with a beautiful Christian hostage named Licia. Their love appears to be impossible, because of the conflict of their religions. Nero burns the city of Rome and blames the Christians, already hated by the pagan Romans.
- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsBartolomeo PaganoFido SchirruValentina FrascaroliA soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónGiovanni PastroneStarsRomilde ToschiAlberto NepotiEnrico GemelliAn old man explains a war story to his grandson, who sleeps and dreams about a battle scenes performed by puppets.
- DirectorGennaro RighelliStarsDria PaolaIsa PolaElio SteinerLoose Pirandello adaptation: A young lady hides from her fiance that she is caring for a baby half brother left behind by her late mother.The fiance, like her an aspiring musical performer, has indicated he doesn't want a child yet.
- DirectorMario AlmiranteStarsVasco CretiCarlo TedeschiAlex Bernard
- DirectorGoffredo AlessandriniStarsAmedeo NazzariGermana PaolieriRoberto VillaSuccessful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups ?
- DirectorGiuseppe AmatoVittorio De SicaStarsVittorio De SicaRenée Saint-CyrUmberto MelnatiA man poses as a mysterious admirer to find out whether his wife would cheat on him.
- DirectorGoffredo AlessandriniStarsAlida ValliFosco GiachettiRossano BrazziAfter having been captured in Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.
- DirectorGoffredo AlessandriniStarsFosco GiachettiAlida ValliRossano BrazziThe time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with the mark of the unconquered in their bearing: Kira, who wants to be a builder, and the two men who love her - Leo, an aristocrat, and Andrei, a Communist. In their tensely dramatic story, Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice. We the Living is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what dictatorship - of any kind - does to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive, and which of them remain as the ultimate winners. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Who are the winners in this conflict? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand offers an answer that challenges the modern conscience.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsMichela BelmonteLeonardo CorteseCarlo MinelloMarco, Mario and Filippo are friends have a great passion in common, flying. They attend the Air Force Academy of Caserta to become pilots, with the ongoing war and the risk of being called into action.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsMassimo GirottiMichela BelmonteGaetano MasierA young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.
- DirectorFerdinando Maria PoggioliStarsAmedeo NazzariLilia SilviLauro GazzoloA modern, (as of 1942), retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Lilia Silvi and Amedeo Nazzari.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannStarsPiero PastoreIsa PolaVittorio BellacciniIn the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends (Mario and Pietro) fight for the love of the same girl (Gina). Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGianfranco GiachettiMino DoroFranco BrambillaThe film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGiuseppe GulinoAida BelliaGianfranco GiachettiThe 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. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsAlida ValliMassimo SeratoAda DondiniA woman of humble origins who marries a nobleman in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, the unstoppable force of their love hits an immovable object: his grandmother.
- DirectorFrancesco De RobertisStarsFelga LauriDiego PozzettoMarichetta StoppaDuring maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel and drops to the ocean floor. The crew have thirty hours worth of air to get it back to the surface.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiLuisa FeridaRina MorelliA crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviAdriana BenettiGiuditta RissoneA family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiAntonio CentaMaria DenisAn 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.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsVittorio De SicaAssia NorisLuigi AlmiranteGold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his money.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsElisa CeganiAssia NorisElsa De GiorgiBased on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsVittorio De SicaAssia NorisRubi DalmaVittorio 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 fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with. Shown in the USA with Italian dialogue and no English titles.