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1. The White Sheik (1952)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 6,927
2. Variety Lights (1950)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
Directors: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina, John Kitzmiller
Votes: 3,864
3. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 1,706
4. Rome 11:00 (1952)
107 min | Drama
Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning ... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Carla Del Poggio, Maria Grazia Francia, Lea Padovani
Votes: 858
5. The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
115 min | Comedy
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia, Édouard Delmont
Votes: 2,673
6. The Story of William Tell (1953)
Short, Adventure, Drama
A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Errol Flynn, Antonella Lualdi, Massimo Serato, Bruce Cabot
7. Woman Trouble (1948)
84 min | Comedy
Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Massimo Girotti, Checco Rissone, Dante Maggio
Votes: 167
8. Angels of Darkness (1954)
94 min | Drama
Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other girls learn that, ... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Amato | Stars: Linda Darnell, Valentina Cortese, Lea Padovani, Giulietta Masina
Votes: 195
9. Il treno crociato (1943)
85 min | Drama, Romance, War
An Italian lieutenant is wounded on the Eastern Front, in Russia. While he is on a hospital train, the man remembers the love story that made him a father. During the journey an air alert ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Campogalliani | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, María Mercader, Cesare Fantoni, Carlo Romano
Votes: 30
10. Outcry (1946)
90 min | War, Drama
Italian resistance fighters take on the Germans
Director: Aldo Vergano | Stars: Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse
Votes: 64
11. Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968)
104 min | Comedy
Marino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin, Moira Orfei
Votes: 612
12. Voice of Silence (1953)
110 min | Drama
A 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... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Jean Marais, Daniel Gélin, Cosetta Greco
Votes: 97
13. Policarpo 'ufficiale di scrittura' (1959)
104 min | Comedy
The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo seeks a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Renato Rascel, Carla Gravina, Romolo Valli, Tony Soler
Votes: 117
14. Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca (1964–1965)
480 min | Comedy
Stars: Rita Pavone, Valeria Valeri, Ivo Garrani, Milena Vukotic
Votes: 48
15. Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
89 min | Comedy
Paolina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, a flabby and impotent man , so the eager girl offers herself to all the young people in sight.
Director: Nello Rossati | Stars: Antonia Santilli, Tony Askin, Rossanna Ballanti, Giulio Baraghini
Votes: 16
16. Peddlin' in Society (1946)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes... See full summary »
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Riento, Laura Gore
Votes: 232
17. Amore e guai (1958)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
Director: Angelo Dorigo | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 78
18. Abbasso la miseria! (1945)
90 min | Drama
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of ... See full summary »
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Anna Magnani, Nino Besozzi, Virgilio Riento, Marisa Vernati
Votes: 190
19. Anni facili (1953)
98 min | Comedy
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Nino Taranto, Alda Mangini, Gino Buzzanca, Clelia Matania
Votes: 51
20. La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)
95 min | Comedy
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Simonelli | Stars: Nino Taranto, Nadia Gray, Lea Padovani, Hélène Rémy
Votes: 27
21. Cento piccole mamme (1952)
105 min | Drama
Director: Giulio Morelli | Stars: William Tubbs, Lia Amanda, Clelia Matania, Augusto Pennella
22. Viva il cinema! (1952)
90 min | Comedy
Directors: Giorgio Baldaccini, Enzo Trapani | Stars: Delia Scala, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Virgilio Riento, Marilyn Buferd
Votes: 11
23. La schiava del peccato (1954)
100 min | Drama
Following a rail disaster, a prostitute takes in an orphan but will have to fight to obtain the right to adopt her.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Silvana Pampanini, Franco Fabrizi, Camillo Pilotto, Liliana Gerace
Votes: 105
24. La bisbetica domata (1942)
82 min | Comedy
A modern, (as of 1942), retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Lilia Silvi and Amedeo Nazzari.
Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Lilia Silvi, Lauro Gazzolo, Carlo Romano
Votes: 44
25. Nel giorno del signore (1970)
92 min | Comedy, History
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Fred Robsahm, Igli Villani, Sydney Chaplin, Ira von Fürstenberg
Votes: 35
26. L'ultima gara (1954)
"The Last Race" - Two rowers, Marco and Filippo, train for a race on the river Tiber. Marco has recently fallen in love with the painter Sandra.
Director: Piero Costa | Stars: Vera Bergman, Margherita Bossi, Arturo Dominici, Checco Durante
27. Se vincessi cento milioni (1954)
100 min | Comedy
Directors: Carlo Campogalliani, Carlo Moscovini | Stars: Tino Scotti, Nerio Bernardi, Anna Carena, Enzo Maggio
Votes: 15
28. Vent'anni (1949)
95 min | Comedy
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini, Francesco Golisano, Titti Brandani
29. The Black Corsair (1938)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Amleto Palermi | Stars: Ciro Verratti, Silvana Jachino, Ada Biagini, Nerio Bernardi
Votes: 10
30. Signori, in carrozza! (1951)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Sophie Desmarets, Vera Nandi, Peppino De Filippo
Votes: 95
31. Canzone di primavera (1951)
100 min | Drama
Director: Mario Costa | Stars: Leonardo Cortese, Delia Scala, Tamara Lees, Claudio Villa
32. Il vetturale del Moncenisio (1954)
88 min | Drama, History
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Roldano Lupi, Virna Lisi, Arnoldo Foà, Jean Chevrier
33. Il porto della speranza (1954)
91 min
The tales of some of the needy who visit the rectory of the kind and benevolent "Don Luigi" and his pernickety sister "Angelica".
Director: Enzo Liberti | Stars: Checco Durante, Anita Durante, Leila Durante, Gina Amendola
34. I dritti (1957)
Director: Mario Amendola | Stars: Valeria Moriconi, Corrado Pani, Paolo Panelli, Jacques Torrens
Votes: 20
35. La fumeria d'oppio (1947)
88 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young girl's brother is unfairly accused of murder .A junkie, he is resigned to his fate .She decides to unmask the real culprit.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, Paolo Stoppa, Emilio Cigoli
Votes: 89
36. Love and Poison (1950)
80 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Giorgio Simonelli | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell, Alfredo Varelli, Anna Nievo
Votes: 11
37. Le due sorelle (1950)
82 min | Drama
Director: Mario Volpe | Stars: Vera Carmi, Enzo Fiermonte, Iole Paoli, Checco Durante
38. Il medico per forza (1931)
55 min | Comedy
This featurette is a burlesque of the Moliere play, The Doctor In Spite of Himself.
Director: Carlo Campogalliani | Stars: Ettore Petrolini, Letizia Quaranta, Tilde Mercandalli, Sergio Rovida
Votes: 21
39. Loves of Don Juan (1942)
82 min | Action, Drama
Director: Dino Falconi | Stars: Adriano Rimoldi, Dina Sassoli, Paolo Stoppa, Elena Zareschi
40. La scuola dei timidi (1941)
76 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Alberto Rabagliati, Carla Del Poggio, Virgilio Riento, Armando Migliari
41. Processo all'amore (1955)
Director: Enzo Liberti | Stars: Franco Silva, Jane Hugo, Nora Visconti, Checco Durante
42. Motivo in maschera (1955)
90 min | Comedy
A presenter invents a radio quiz in which the contestants have to recognize a popular tune disguised as a classical one. Lots of people take part in the contest.
Director: Stefano Canzio | Stars: Mike Bongiorno, Lelio Luttazzi, Lyla Rocco, Alba Arnova
43. Accadde tra le sbarre (1955)
88 min | Drama
Director: Giorgio Cristallini | Stars: Evar Maran, Linda Sini, Mariemma Bardi, Lauro Gazzolo
44. Lo smemorato (1936)
Comedy
Comedy of a man deserting his own impossible family, and comforting a rich widow who sees in him a resemblance to her lost husband.
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Angelo Musco, Checco Durante, Franco Coop, Loris Gizzi
Votes: 15
45. When Love Calls (1947)
106 min | Drama
Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Gino Bechi, Silvana Pampanini, Gino Saltamerenda, Liliana Laine
46. Il feroce Saladino (1937)
90 min | Comedy
An old comedian is obliged to work as a servant. He meets a young woman who dreams of theatre career. Old man decides to set to stage a comic piece, Il Feroce Saladino. The young woman may see her dreams come true.
Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Angelo Musco, Alida Valli, Lino Carenzio, Rosina Anselmi
Votes: 29
47. Granada, addio! (1967)
95 min | Comedy
Mario Valli has a good voice, he is a widow and has a daughter, Paoletta, whom he loves very much. He lives by singing in petty night-clubs. A day arrives when he has his chance: a contract... See full summary »
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Claudio Villa, Susanna Martinková, María Cuadra, Raimondo Vianello
Votes: 8
48. I due barbieri (1937)
Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Loris Gizzi, Celeste Almieri, Guglielmo Barnabò, Calisto Bertramo
49. Signorinette (1942)
86 min | Comedy
The yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Carla Del Poggio, Paola Veneroni, Anna Mari, Nella Paoli
50. I fratelli Castiglioni (1937)
67 min | Comedy
Four heirs in a wealthy family, while waiting to see who gets the inheritance, squabble over a missing lottery ticket.
Director: Corrado D'Errico | Stars: Camillo Pilotto, Ugo Ceseri, Amedeo Nazzari, Armando Migliari
Votes: 8