Giuseppe Gambardella
Actor
Movies15
Movie5.5From a window in Fabiola's house, Sebastian watches the Christians being taken to their cells, and as he listens to the shrieks and curses of the multitude his heart is stirred with pity. Later Sebastian is denounced to the Emperor as a Christian, and he is condemned to die by the swords of the Numidian guards. The news is brought to Fabiola, who sends one of her slaves to the chief of the Numidians. Heis brought to her house, and rich bribes are offered to him not to fulfil the Emperor's command. Sebastian is taken to the place of execution, and the chief commands his followers to shoot with their arrows, but not to kill. Dangerously wounded, Sebastian is carried to Fabiola's house, where she tenderly nurses him back to health. But Sebastian, partially recovered, sets out to meet the Emperor, and reproaches him for his cruelty towards the Christians.
Movie5.8DramaFantasyDr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total pleasure in exchange for the life of his fiancée Margaret. Faust accepts but is soon forced to realise the impossibility of crossing the boundaries of knowledge and the limits imposed by God.
Faust
1910 · 4 votes
Movie10.0ComedyNapoli d'altri tempi
1938 · 1 votes
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Directed by Giulio Antamoro.
Movie5.5ComedyTwo hunters resort to the use of certain pills to invigorate their limbs, weakened by age and fatigue. The film stars Ferdinand Guillaume, who would eventually adopt the name Polidor in 1911.
Pillole portentose
1910 · 2 votes
- Movie5.0Comedy
Kri Kri can't have the girl he loves, so he fakes suicide.
Movie8.0ComedyPer uomini soli
1938 · 1 votes
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A fragment of a short comedy of Neapolitan setting, in which the actor Vincenzo Scarpetta, son of playwright Eduardo, is struggling with a Miss across the Atlantic. The woman throws a chest in the sea, asking his lover to recover it as proof of love. He turns to a fisherman, offering him money to complete the recovery for him. The film, shot in 1916, was, for reasons unknown, unpublished until 1918.
Movie8.0DramaTerra di nessuno
1939 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0
A couple of country pumpkins go to the big city and learn a thing or two.
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The film tells the story of Maria, a young typist who falls in love with a distinguished gentleman by whom she becomes pregnant, without knowing that he is married. The gentleman, assailed by debts resulting from his dissipated life, depends upon his rich wife, and has no intention of marrying the poor girl. After having refused the money offered by him in compensation for her dishonour, Maria wanders desperately, with her baby in her arms, until she decides to accept the propositions of a stranger, with the single aim of buying a gun to carry out her own revenge.
- Movie4.5Comedy
Bess is busy reading a book when her folks come in and command her to spend more time at work. They give her a ball of yarn, a crochet needle and set her to work. She is left alone and while moving around in her chair she loses track of the ball of yarn. It happens to have been caught in her belt at her back and out of her own view. Being a girl of quick temper and strong in athletics, the home is in so much of a turmoil when her parents return that Bess has not been subjected to work since. (Moving Picture World)
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Professor Stout and his friend Thynne are anxious to discover some way of ‘raising the wind’. Their sole asset is an old clarionet and some poems. They retire to a public recreation ground.
- Movie7.0Comedy
Roman comedienne Lea returns for more hilarious antics in Lea si diverte (1912).
Lea si diverte
1912 · 2 votes
- Movie6.0ComedyRomance
A lovely lady of the castle, annoyed with a small statue of Cupid which she believed to be an effective love talisman, throws it out from the balcony. The small statue falls onto the head of a passerby and wounds him. He is a noble gentleman and an officer, who is taken in and cared for by the lord of the castle. Between the young girl and the wounded man, a tender romance is born and unfolds, which leads them to their longed-for wedding.