Lola Braccini
Actor
Movies22
Movie7.7DramaAs Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
Movie7.7ComedyDramaThe film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
Movie7.8DramaFilm director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
Bellissima
1952 · 260 votes
Movie7.0ComedyScience FictionGuido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
Movie3.6DramaWhen "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
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Il capitano degli ussari
1940 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DramaIn 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along.
Carmela
1942 · 3 votes
Movie8.3ComedyCrimeSabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.
Movie6.8DramaMusicThe life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
Giuseppe Verdi
1953 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyGli uomini, che mascalzoni!
1953 · 1 votes
Movie8.5ComedyIn a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Movie7.0DramaPiccolo Hotel (aka Small Hotel) uses the titular establishment to weave together a vast tapestry of subplots, a la Grand Hotel. The guests include a domineering mother (Lola Braccini), her petulant daughter (Bianca Doria) and the daughter's gigolo boyfriend (Guido Notari). Also on hand is a worldly vamp (Laura Nucci) who also falls for the boyfriend, and the chronic-gambler son (Andrea Checchi) of the hotel's self-sacrificing landlady (Emma Grammatica). Though the film is set in Budapest, the characters are more Mediterranean than mittel-European. Piccolo Hotel was one of the entries in the Vienna Biennial Film Festival.
Movie7.2ComedyIn post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
MovieDramaRomance
Movie6.8ComedyLe Olimpiadi dei mariti
1960 · 5 votes
Movie6.6ComedyAlberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Movie7.0ThrillerDramaThree episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.
Amori pericolosi
1964 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA put upon, middle-aged employee receives a small sum of money as a gift and uses it to take a trip to Rome.
Buon viaggio, pover'uomo
1951 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDuring the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Gastone
1960 · 11 votes
Movie8.0DramaTerra di nessuno
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyTwo young men love the same girl and decide to fight for her. The winner realizes, however, that his feelings are not returned.
Valeria ragazza poco seria
1958 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Drama"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
Traversata nera
1939 · 1 votes