Virginia Balestrieri
Actor · 1888 – 1960 · Trapani, Italy
Movies12
Movie6.5ComedyThree friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
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
Movie7.4MusicRomanceMaruzzella is in love with Salvatore, who in turn is infatuated with Donna Carmela, Maruzzella's stepmother. As if that were not enough, Carmela deprives Maruzzella of her inheritance. When Salvatore comes to visit Renato, his old poor and needy schoolmate, the situation takes a strange development.
Maruzzella
1956 · 4 votes
Movie4.5DramaMusicIn Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
Movie9.0DramaAttendimi - Sono io l'assassino
1949 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceIn regional Sicily, Jana tries to repair her sister's marriage by going to a sorceress who makes up a love potion that will bring about the couple's happiness. But the spell only works on Jana herself...
Malìa
1946 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaTuri, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.
Movie6.1ComedyA disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceA humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.
Onore e sangue
1957 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaHistoryA Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
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Mare
1940 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaPaolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in love. The old Duke, remorsing, tries to find his daughter but he doesn't manage and leaves everything to his latest concubine, Livia, while Nunzio and Paolina will live in misery. The only copy of this film was destroyed in World War Two