Sandro Ruffini
Actor · 1889 – 1954 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Movies21
Movie9.0AdventureIvan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
1953 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaMusicThis music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.
MovieDramaHistoryLa monaca di Monza
1947 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaGino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
Movie10.0CrimeA famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
Movie7.8DramaAldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
Movie6.5DramaA married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.
La freccia nel fianco
1945 · 4 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaProsecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
- Movie7.0Comedy
Cose dell'altro mondo
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0RomanceL'uomo del romanzo
1940 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaMusicThe 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.
Giuseppe Verdi
1953 · 5 votes
Movie6.0MysteryThrillerA woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.
Giallo
1934 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaBy taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
Movie8.8Drama
Movie6.3ComedyIn a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini. The main accuser is her classmate Anna, played by Alida Valli.
Movie8.0AdventureI pirati della Malesia
1941 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomance
Movie5.7DocumentaryThis short documentary explores the world of Italian photo comics (fumetti), focusing on the models who posed as romantic heroes and heroines for popular illustrated stories. By contrasting their staged screen personas with their everyday lives, the film offers an observational look at a mass-culture phenomenon in postwar Italy.
Movie7.0DramaRomance1875. After completing her studies in boarding school, the young Duchess Anna Castellani, returns home and meets by chance a friend of her father, a count much older than herself.
Le vie del cuore
1942 · 1 votes
Movie4.7ComedyRomanceIn Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
I mariti
1941 · 6 votes
Movie6.7DramaThe 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 Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.