Guido Notari
Actor · 1893 – 1957 · Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Movies24
Movie6.3AdventureWarPrince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Helen of Troy
1956 · 66 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Il tallone di Achille
1952 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAn American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again.
In campagna è caduta una stella
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.9WarDramaSet during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
MovieDramaDuring the 18th century, the empress of Russia Catherine the Great sends her lover Count Alexei Orloff to kidnap her rival for the throne, the pretender Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova, from Venice. However, Orloff ends up falling in love with the princess.
Movie6.8WarDramaAn opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Movie6.3DocumentaryThis 1948 film by Antonioni documents the lives of street cleaners in Rome. N.U. is short for Nettezza urbana, the Italian municipal cleaning service.
N.U.
1948 · 28 votes
Movie5.7DramaMusicItalian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
Movie10.0HistoryAdventureA sweeping, cinematic pseudo-documentary history of human flight, starting with the failed attempt of Icarus, and ending with the aviation triumphs of the fascist regime.
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.
Movie8.0Il nemico
1943 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaAnna, a woman with a troubled past, marries an honest worker at the SIMA mechanical workshop, who provides her with a decent life despite financial difficulties. Blackmailed by a man who knows about her past, Anna loses her mind and kills him. Sentenced to ten years in prison, she dies in childbirth while giving birth to a baby girl.
Movie6.5DramaRomanceAn ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Movie8.0DramaScience FictionA captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses some completely inexplicable events that disturb him and take away the necessary serenity of mind to attend to his work, from which he feels detached. An explosion in the laboratory brings to the attention of an entire espionage network that was working to prevent the realization of the project.
La casa senza tempo
1945 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an important Hungarian bank, to make him have a desk in his room and to do so pass for an employee.
La danza dei milioni
1940 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaThe tale of two fish in love, threatened by an octopus and saved by an eel.
Movie7.0ComedyThe film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Dove sta Zaza?
1947 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaTwo half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.
Gente dell’aria
1943 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIncontri di notte
1943 · 1 votes
MovieDrama
Movie4.7AdventureActionGiacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
Movie6.6DramaA young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
Movie7.0DramaThe yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage.
Signorinette
1942 · 1 votes
Movie6.8WarThe Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.
Giarabub
1942 · 4 votes