Nelly Corradi
Actor · 1914 – 1968 · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Movies19
Movie6.6DramaGaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
MovieComedyBarbablù
1941
Movie6.3HistoryDramaThe film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Movie5.7MusicNemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.
Movie7.0MusicComedyA crafty barber acts as a go-between for a count in disguise and rescues Rosina from marriage with her guardian. An operatic comedy.
Movie6.7DramaMusicThe biographical story of Puccini spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including an attractive, beautiful singer whom he drops for a small town girl, and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.
Puccini
1953 · 3 votes
Movie6.0DramaMusicFilm version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
La forza del destino
1950 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaMusicA courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her. Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera in the three acts "La Traviata".
Movie7.0WarDramaA veteran of the African War, along with two young men, one of whom is newly married, are called to arms to defend their homeland's borders. They will be protagonists of dramatic events involving assaults, retreats, and life in the trenches. The old veteran of the African War will ultimately perish as a hero, while the other two will return to their homes after the victorious battle to recount the dramatic events they experienced.
Movie6.5MusicDramaGoethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
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Il torrente
1938
Movie7.0DramaA decadent noblewoman, whose stranded husband has dilapidated their whole fortune on gambling, tries to keep her daughter in school while hiding their state of poverty from her, by leading a double life as an exotic dancer.
Movie7.0RomanceHistoryIl conte di Sant'Elmo
1951 · 1 votes
- MovieDramaRomance
Luci sommerse
1936
MovieDramaHistoryDente per dente
1943
Movie8.0DramaTerra di nessuno
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MusicDramaA film adaptation of Gaetano Donizetti's famous opera from 1835. Lucia is forced by her brother to marry for political reasons. Her fiancé reacts very badly and curses her. Lucia goes mad and her fiancé kills himself.
Lucia di Lammermoor
1946 · 1 votes
Movie7.2Drama
Movie8.0DramaA young boy runs away from boarding school and an old professor takes care of him.
Gli orizzonti del sole
1955 · 1 votes