Nino Pavese
Actor · 1904 – 1974 · Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Movies24
Movie3.0DramaBehind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
I piaceri del sabato notte
1960 · 4 votes
Movie7.5ComedyDramaSix episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Movie7.2AnimationFamilyThe film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
Movie10.0DramaAt the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.
Les Réprouvés
1937 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCome scopersi l'America
1949 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Il tallone di Achille
1952 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceMario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.
Serenata amara
1952 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0ComedyMusic
Anthology comedy/romance film
Movie7.3DramaWarA cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Movie6.2ComedyA mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Non perdiamo la testa
1959 · 5 votes
MovieDramaRomance
Movie5.9HistoryDramaIn the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy.
Movie8.0AdventureDramaWhen his mother falls gravely ill after emigrating to Argentina, young Marco leaves Italy behind on a desperate quest to find her. Alone in a vast, unpredictable continent with no money and only his determination to guide him, he sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to bring his family back together. Based on the timeless 1886 classic, this epic adventure captures the extraordinary lengths a child will go to for love.
Dagli Appennini alle Ande
1943 · 1 votes
Movie7.0HistoryDramaThe life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism.
Movie8.0ComedyIn Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Il pirata sono io!
1940 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaMysteryIn the Venetian Republic a series of murders are carried out by a hooded man in black who always makes his escape through the city's waterways on a gondola.
La gondola del diavolo
1946 · 1 votes
Movie10.0HistoryDramaDuring the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
La fanciulla di Portici
1940 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyWesternComedy Western
Il fanciullo del West
1942 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaBeppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
Movie6.0ComedyTo get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
MovieTheatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.
Movie8.0DramaHistoryTempesta sul golfo
1943 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyItaly, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire.
Non me lo dire!
1940 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaA lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. After a few years he discovers that the woman was married to an invalid and that the meeting had been organized to ensure an heir for the family