Franz Sala
Actor
Movies15
Movie6.5RomanceDramaIn L'innamorata, Almirante is at the zenith of her career, starring as Mara Flores, a vampish society lady, who casts her eyes on Carlo, an electrical engineer and director of a powerplant. Although attracted to Mara, he rejects her, and she immediately turns around and sinks her fangs in his best friend and future brother-in-law, Franco. Not possessing Carlo's self-composure, Franco takes up with Mara, and it leads him to his ruin and death. Now, Carlo does fall under Mara's spell, and as their passion intensifies, it becomes clear that there will be no happy end to this story.
L'innamorata
1920 · 4 votes
Movie6.8FantasyHorrorThe devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
Movie10.0DramaA homeless girl gets taken in by a painter.
Lucciola
1917 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Povere bimbe
1923 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaLa locanda delle ombre
1923 · 1 votes
Movie8.0The story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Beatrice Cenci
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.7HistoryThe film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa.
Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana
1939 · 6 votes
- Movie10.0ActionAdventure
A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor. He and Maciste fight off the entire crew but the girl is captured again by the sheik and carried off to his harem, where Maciste and the sailor rescue her and take her back to Italy.
Maciste contro lo sceicco
1926 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaMysteryDuring a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.
Movie9.0ActionComedyThis is a 1920s Italian military comedy directed by Eugenio Perego, starring Bartolomeo Pagano and set amid drills and humorous misunderstandings. The film plays on the trope of the naive hero in a farcical and patriotic setting.
Il Caporal Saetta
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.8AdventureBartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.
Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni
1926 · 3 votes
- Movie9.0
La signorina Ciclone
1916 · 1 votes
- Movie
Treno di piacere
1924
- Movie9.0Drama
Three children attend an institute bordering a middle school where Lauretta studies. The boys befriend her and decide one night to go see the fireworks, but one of the children is injured by a bomb. This situation causes the injured child's father and nanny to fall in love.
La Casa Dei Pulcini
1924 · 1 votes
Movie10.0In a sleazy cigar and newspaper store in Rome, an old newsagent nicknamed "Papa Re" sells his wares, warmed only by an earthenware heater that his granddaughter brings him each evening. One day, the stove falls from his hand and breaks into a thousand pieces. The same evening, when he opens the kiosk, he finds inside a woman, huddled up, with her little daughter in her arms: it is Rosalba Vignas, a singer-songwriter who has been chased away by her lover, Cesare le Milanese, who fell in love with his younger colleague.
Lo scaldino
1920 · 1 votes