Elli Parvo
Actor · 1915 – 2010 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Movies22
Movie7.5DramaA sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Il Grido
1957 · 171 votes
Movie7.0DramaMusicA tale of the complicated Neapolitan lives and loves of Maria and Alberto; her smuggling father Don Gennaro and some espionage.
La Luciana
1954 · 1 votes
Movie6.0RomanceComedyA great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.
Madri pericolose
1960 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ComedyIn a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Movie9.0DramaAt a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
- MovieMysteryThriller
Every night a howl is heard outside the insane asylum run by Professor Oder, terrifying his younger wife Silvia. Neglected by her husband she begins to fall for Adamo, a musician who is resting at the clinic to recover his health. When a patient is strangled her husband puts the blame of Adamo who he claims is a homicidal maniac. However, it turns out the professor is really insane and the night screams are his own cries of torment.
The Howl
1948
MovieComedy
Movie6.9ComedyWhile Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Mi permette babbo!
1956 · 14 votes
Movie5.2DramaPaola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
Movie9.0RomanceComedyUn americano in vacanza
1946 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaEpisodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
Movie5.0DramaMaria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
L'ultimo amante
1955 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaBased on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
Movie10.0ComedyWesternComedy Western
Il fanciullo del West
1942 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ComedyIn this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
Movie8.0ComedyAn actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959 · 1 votes
Movie6.2DramaFantasyAfter dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeeds in obtaining to return to earth for a few hours to make reparation for the evil he committed and, above all, for the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's suicide attempt. The affair will lead him to make a risky but happy choice.
Movie8.0ComedyIl feroce saladino
1937 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWhen a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
Movie6.7DramaWarA neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
Movie7.0DramaItalian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".
Vertigine d'amore
1948 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyThe noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
L'allegro fantasma
1941 · 17 votes