Osvaldo Valenti
Actor · 1906 – 1945 · Istanbul, Turkey
Movies22
Movie9.0DocumentaryA documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Movie5.7AdventureFantasyIn the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
MovieComedyHistoryLa sonnambula
1941
Movie7.3DramaAfter committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.
Movie6.1RomanceDramaIn Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
MovieDramaRomanceL'invasore
1949
Movie8.0ComedyAn electronic engineer is called by the Hungarian Television Directorate to test the new television installations. He arrives in the capital, Budapest, together with his girlfriend.
Movie6.5AdventureEverything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryLa valle del diavolo
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThis propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
Harlem
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0AdventureSequel to "Il figlio del corsaro rosso." Neala, daughter of the Red Corsair, is taken prisoner by the governor of Las Palmas, who wants to marry her for her dowry. Her brother, helped by the filibustieri, goes to her rescue.
Gli ultimi filibustieri
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Primo amore
1941 · 1 votes
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Una lampada alla finestra
1940 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyLa signorina dell'autobus
1933 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaHistoryLa maschera di Cesare Borgia
1941 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaIl fornaretto di Venezia
1939 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFrenesia
1939 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyLa danza delle lancette
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.7HistoryETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
Ettore Fieramosca
1938 · 7 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceThis film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
Fedora
1942 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaLe due orfanelle
1942 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaHistorySet in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanina Vanini and her secret love for the Carbonaro Pietro Mirilli. The latter, given his commitments in the underground struggle, decides to abandon his young lover, who is nevertheless willing to marry him. Left alone, Vanina is unable to escape her despair and tries in every way to reunite with her companion, even going so far as to denounce the Carbonari to the Cardinal of Romagna, naming them all except Pietro and revealing the hiding place where they meet. Pietro, learning of Vanina's betrayal, casts her out. Only then does Vanina realize the gravity of her actions and decides to join the Carbonari, even participating in combat operations, during one of which she is wounded. This brings the two young people closer together forever.