Italian Movies

Caravaggio's Shadow (Italian: L'ombra di Caravaggio) is a 2022 Italian-French biographical historical drama film directed by Michele Placido. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (click on CC for subtitles). In 1610 in Italy, Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, is considered a brilliant artist. He opposes church dogma, which dictates how religious subjects should be depicted in art. When Pope Paul V learns that Caravaggio uses prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds as models for his paintings, he orders an investigation into the artist by the Vatican secret service. The results of the investigation will determine whether Caravaggio's request to be pardoned from his death sentence for the murder of a rival will succeed. The lead investigator, known as "Shadow", reveals the contradictory vices and virtues of Caravaggio. According to a study by Vincenzo Pacelli, professor at the University of Naples, supported by documents from the State Archives and the Vatican Archives, Caravaggio died not in Porto Ercole, but in Palo, a few kilometers from Civitavecchia, which at the time was Rome's port. And his was a violent death, indeed "a state murder." Organized "by the Order of Malta, for the offense committed against a powerful knight, with the tacit approval of the Roman Curia." The film adopts this theory. Cast & Characters: Riccardo Scamarcio as Caravaggio Louis Garrel as Schatten Isabelle Huppert as Costanza Sforza Colonna Micaela Ramazzotti as Lena Antonietti Lolita Chammah as Anna Bianchini Vinicio Marchioni as Giovanni Baglione Gianfranco Gallo as Giordano Bruno Moni Ovadia as Filippo Neri Michele Placido as Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte Tedua as Cecco Maurizio Donadoni as Pope Paul V

Il complotto di luglio è un docu-drama film per la televisione del 1967 diretto da Vittorio Cottafavi. Berlino, 1944, durante la seconda guerra mondiale un gruppo di ufficiali tedeschi attenta alla vita di Adolf Hitler, ritenendo la guerra ormai perduta, e l'attentato è materialmente realizzato dal colonnello Claus von Stauffenberg alla Tana del lupo, il quartier generale del Führer. Interpreti e personaggi Pietro Recanatesi: usciere Renato De Carmine: Erich Hoepner Tino Carraro: Friedrich Olbricht Lucia Catullo: Delia Zeigler Mino Bellei: Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim Rolf Tasna: Friedrich Fromm Mico Cundari: aiutante Tullio Carminati: Ludwig Beck Paolo Graziosi: Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg Carlo D'Angelo: Hans Bernd Gisevius Carlo Hintermann: Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorf Daniele Tedeschi: Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist Dante Biagioni: Werner von Haeften Germano Longo: maggiore Silvano Tranquilli: colonnello Franco Freisteiner: Hans Fritzsche Alberto Giacopello: Ludwig von Hammerstein-Equord Max Turilli: Piffraeder Piera Vidale: Anni Schmitt Voci e personaggi Emilio Cigoli: Ludwig Beck Gianni Diotaiuti: annunciatore

Beatrice Cenci è un film del 1941 diretto da Guido Brignone. Delle sette pellicole narranti la tragica vicenda della nobildonna romana vissuta nel '500, questa è la prima del periodo sonoro (escludendo la pellicola del 1926 di Baldassarre Negroni girata muta, ma in seguito sonorizzata e ridistribuita nel 1930). L'azione del film si svolge alla fine del XVI secolo tra Roma e l'Abruzzo. Il conte romano Francesco Cenci, uomo dissoluto e violento, è condannato per debiti a sette mesi di esilio da trascorrere in una lontana rocca dell'Abruzzo. Vero tiranno, esige che i membri della propria famiglia lo accompagnino, il che addolora soprattutto la figlia Beatrice costretta a lasciare il proprio fidanzato per seguire il padre. Interpreti e personaggi: Carola Höhn: Beatrice Cenci Giulio Donadio: Francesco Cenci Tina Lattanzi: Lucrezia Cenci Osvaldo Valenti: Giacomo Cenci Elli Parvo: Angela Luigi Pavese: Catalano Arturo Bragaglia: don Lorenzo Sandro Ruffini: giudice Moscato Gualtiero De Angelis: Curzio Marcello Giorda: presidente del tribunale Enzo Fiermonte: Olimpio Calvetti Emilio Petacci: Prospero Farinacci Roberto Pasetti: l'usuraio Carlo Duse: capitano dei gendarmi Pina Gallini: governante di don Lorenzo Nino Marchetti: contadino alla taverna Nino Marchesini: castellano Giovanni Onorato: primo bandito Angelo Dessy: secondo bandito Marino Girolami

Giuseppe Verdi, released theatrically in the US as The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi and on video as Verdi, the King of Melody, is a 1953 Italian biographical musical melodrama film starring Pierre Cressoy and directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is based on adult life events of the composer Giuseppe Verdi. Audio (dubbed) in English. The 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. Cast & Characters: Pierre Cressoy as Giuseppe Verdi Anna Maria Ferrero as Margherita Barezzi Gaby André as Giuseppina Strepponi Irene Genna as Violetta Laura Gore as Berberina Strepponi Camillo Pilotto as Antonio Barezzi Emilio Cigoli as Gaetano Donizetti Loris Gizzi as Gioachino Rossini Mario Del Monaco as Francesco Tamagno Tito Gobbi as Domenico Ronconi Aldo Bufi Landi as Alexandre Dumas, fils Guido Celano as Victor Hugo Franca Dominici as Rossini's Wife Mario Ferrari as Austrian Official Enrico Glori as Stage Director Turi Pandolfini as Bank Teller Teresa Franchini as Old Lady Gianni Agus Olga Vittoria Gentili Liana Del Balzo Lola Braccini Anna Vivaldi Lucia Banti

Giuseppe Verdi è un film del 1953 diretto da Raffaello Matarazzo, con sceneggiatura di; Leonardo Benvenuti [Leo Benvenuti], Liana Ferri, Mario Monicelli, Piero Pierotti, Giovanna Soria, Raffaele Matarazzo. Si tratta della biografia romanzata del celebre compositore Giuseppe Verdi. Il film ebbe molto successo tra il pubblico. Risultò il terzo maggior incasso in Italia della stagione cinematografica 1953-1954, preceduto solamente da Pane, amore e fantasia di Luigi Comencini e da Il ritorno di don Camillo di Julien Duvivier. Nel 2016 è stato presente nella sezione Festa Mobile / Festa Vintage del 34° Torino Film Festival in una versione restaurata e colorizzata (la pellicola originale fu realizzata in bianco e nero) dalla Cineteca Nazionale. Interpreti & Personaggi: Pierre Cressoy: Giuseppe Verdi Anna Maria Ferrero: Margherita Barezzi Gaby André: Giuseppina Strepponi Laura Gore: Berberina Strepponi Camillo Pilotto: Antonio Barezzi Emilio Cigoli: Gaetano Donizetti Loris Gizzi: Gioachino Rossini Mario Del Monaco: Francesco Tamagno Tito Gobbi: Giorgio Ronconi Aldo Bufi Landi: Alexandre Dumas figlio Guido Celano: Victor Hugo Irene Genna: Violetta Franca Dominici: moglie di Rossini Mario Ferrari: ufficiale austriaco Enrico Glori: direttore teatro Turi Pandolfini: impiegato del banco dei pegni Sandro Ruffini: impresario Varelli Enzo Biliotti: impresario Martini Gianni Agus Olga Vittoria Gentili Liana Del Balzo Lola Braccini Anna Vivaldi Teresa Franchini Lucia Banti

Eugenia Grandet (also known as Eugenie Grandet) is a 1946 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Soldati. It is based on the 1833 novel Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (click on CC for subtitles). The novel has been adapted into films on a number of occasions. The film's sets were designed by art director Gastone Medin. The film entered the competition at the 7th Venice International Film Festival. For her performance Alida Valli won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. The film also won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Scenography. Cast & Characters: Alida Valli as Eugenia Grandet Giorgio De Lullo as Charles Grandet Gualtiero Tumiati as Felix Grandet Giuditta Rissone as Eugenia's mother Maria Bodi as Madame Des Grassins Giuseppe Varni as Mr. Des Grassins Pina Gallini as Nanon Lina Gennari as Marquise D'Aubrion Enzo Biliotti as Notary Cruchet Liana Del Balzo

Pane, amore e...(English title: Scandal in Sorrento) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. Audio in Italian with subtitles in; Italian, English, German, Russian, Frenach and Spanish (Click on CC for subtitles). This is the third film of the trilogy, formed by Bread, Love and Dreams in 1953, Bread, Love and Jealousy in 1954. Innovations include the use of color rather than black and white, as well the location of Sorrento instead of the small village of the previous films of the series. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honorable Mention (Best Humorous Film) award. Cast & Characters: Vittorio De Sica as Maresciallo Carotenuto Sophia Loren as Donna Sofia, a Smargiassa Lea Padovani as Donna Violante Ruotolo Antonio Cifariello as Nicola Pascazio, Nicolino Tina Pica as Caramella Mario Carotenuto as Don Matteo Carotenuto Virgilio Riento as Don Emidio

Pane, amore e gelosia known as Frisky in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. Audio in Italian with subtitles in; Italian, English, Russian and French (click on CC for subtitles). It is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by Bread, Love and Dreams and followed by Scandal in Sorrento. Cast & Characters: Vittorio De Sica as Antonio Carotenuto Gina Lollobrigida as Maria De Ritis Marisa Merlini as Annarella Mirziano Maria-Pia Casilio as Paoletta Virgilio Riento as Don Emidio Tina Pica as Caramella Tecla Scarano as Teresinella Saro Urzì as Don Nicola, il capocomico Roberto Risso as Pietro Stelluti Memmo Carotenuto as Sirio Baiocchi Vittoria Crispo as Maria Antonia De Ritis

Pane, amore e fantasia (English Title: Bread, Love and Dreams) is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. Audio in Italian with subtitles in; English, Russian and Italian (click on CC for subtitles). At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". The film is set in Sagliena, an imaginary small town in central Italy; Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, an elderly womanizer who will have to adapt to the monotonous and quiet life of the village, is transferred here immediately after the war. Supported by the maid Caramella, the marshal runs the local Carabinieri station. Here he meets "Pizzicarella la Bersagliera", a young local girl secretly in love with the carabiniere Stelluti.

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (also known as Fiasco in Milan or Hold-up à la milanaise) is a 1959 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy. Audio in Italian with English and Italian subtitles (click on CC for subtitles). The film stars Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori and Claudia Cardinale. It is the sequel to Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti (1958) and is followed by Big Deal After 20 Years (1985).