Ada Dondini
Actor · 1883 – 1958 · Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
Movies24
Movie4.7DramaA glamorous female singer Zazà has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne. But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.
Zazà
1944 · 5 votes
Movie6.4DramaGino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
Movie6.4ComedyA film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Movie6.8ComedyAntonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
Movie6.8ComedyAfter World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Movie6.6DramaComedyA bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
Lo scocciatore
1953 · 12 votes
Movie6.3ComedyIn a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini. The main accuser is her classmate Anna, played by Alida Valli.
Movie10.0ComedyTwo young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice, finds work in a low-class variety show, where he is captivated by the charms of a dancer.
In cerca di felicità
1944 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyIn a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
- Movie9.0ComedyMusic
Anthology comedy/romance film
Movie7.0ComedyC'è sempre un ma!
1943 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat naive, lends itself to the game and the dongiovanni becomes a regular home. The lady knows how to resist the siege and, after the critical moment, speaks clearly to the young man who definitively desists from the enterprise.
La resa di Titì
1945 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Chi l'ha visto?
1945 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedySe non son matti non li vogliamo
1941 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaMysteryA nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Malombra
1942 · 18 votes
Movie5.5DramaSome peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a beautiful young woman, but they are unaware of her ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated.
Movie9.0ComedyL'eredità in corsa
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaHistoryLa valle del diavolo
1943 · 1 votes
Movie6.5AdventureActionDiavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
Movie10.0ComedyMusicBored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
Il microfono è vostro
1951 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaTutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore
1943 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceFranco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
Piccolo mondo antico
1941 · 22 votes
Movie7.5DramaRomanceFlorence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
Movie8.0DramaRomanceLe vie del peccato
1946 · 1 votes