Isa Pola
Actor · 1909 – 1984 · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Isa Pola (19 December 1909 – 17 December 1984) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films during her career. One of her earliest screen roles was the female lead in Steel (1933), a realist film set in the steelworking industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Pola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.6DramaIn his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
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.
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Movie8.0Miryam, the adopted daughter of the tribal chief Jamet, meets Marco Palmi, an Italian scientist in Libya for research, in the desert. Their first approach is not cordial and when Mario falls prisoner to the marauders she offers to guard him so she can humiliate him. However, over time she falls in love with the young Italian and becomes pregnant by him. Ibrahim, a bandit who desires the girl, arranges for Mario to be abandoned in the desert and tells Miryam that he died trying to escape. But Mario was saved by another tribe and is cared for by Ulema, a friend of Miryam. Ibrahim tries to harm the two lovers again, but Jamet intervenes and kills the bandit, submits to Italian power and allows the couple to leave for Italy together with their recently born son, called Italo.
Miryam
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWhile recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
Movie6.3DramaComedyMaria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Movie5.6DramaIn the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
Movie5.5DramaThe Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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Movie5.4DramaA young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.
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Movie9.0ComedyTwo different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
Movie6.3DramaRomanceA young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
Movie10.0After many years, a widowed Countess meets a former lover who lives with his daughter and her tutor.
La figlia del forzato
1954 · 1 votes
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.
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Anthology comedy/romance film
Movie9.0ComedyGli uomini non sono ingrati
1937 · 1 votes
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Movie6.3The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
Movie8.0DramaRomanceIl ponte di vetro
1940 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaMelodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
Furia
1947 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MusicDramaThis film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
Cavalleria rusticana
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaMusicOld fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves. When he later attempts to rejoin her, disaster results.
La Wally
1932 · 1 votes
Movie4.7ComedyA comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.