Luisa Ferida
Actor · 1914 – 1945 · Castel San Pietro Terme, Reggio Emilia
Movies24
Movie5.2ComedyAfter several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Movie9.0DocumentaryA documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Movie8.5DramaHistoryA film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.
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.
Movie8.0DramaA ferryman assists a woman who had a car accident and falls in love with her. When she leaves suddenly, he sets out to find her.
L'argine
1938 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryHistoryThe story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Cinecittà Babilonia: sesso, droga e camicie nere
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaL'ultimo addio
1942 · 1 votes
Movie8.0AdventureSon of the Red Corsair (and nephew of the Black Corsair), departs for the Americas to search for his long-lost half-sister.
Il figlio del corsaro rosso
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaLa fossa degli angeli
1937 · 1 votes
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.
Movie7.5DramaAttempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
Movie9.0DramaHistoryIl conte di Bréchard
1938 · 1 votes
Movie10.0HistoryDramaDuring the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
La fanciulla di Portici
1940 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe servant girl Carmela arrives from her village to work in the house of the notary Don Domenico, a hypocritical and ambiguous man, who seduces her. The girl flees from the house and falls into the clutches of a shrew who flatters her with promises and wants to exploit her beauty. A young man, Salvatore, known as Il Nero, who works in the sulfur mines, rescues her from the vile house and forces the notary to make amends for his wrongdoing by marrying her. The girl goes through the various events as if in a daze. On her wedding day, she faints before entering the church and falls seriously ill. Before she dies, she reveals that the sulfur miner was her only love and that his lack of understanding caused her illness.
Movie7.0A fisherman with a beautiful voice is heard by the owners of a record company and signed. He falls for the manager but, when he understands that the interest of women is purely professional, he abandons everything.
- Movie10.0DramaCrime
Aboard the luxurious high-speed express “Freccia d’oro,” a jeweller carrying precious gems is targeted by thieves who take over the train, disabling alarms and barricading themselves in the baggage car. Meanwhile, a bridge ahead has collapsed, and the train is unaware due to the thieves’ isolation of the locomotive. Panic ensues among the passengers. Just as disaster looms, the young engineer sees a glowing cross in the fog, prompting him to stop the train in time. The cross is revealed to be a rosary from his mother, reflecting off the headlight. This divine sign saves everyone, and the thieves are captured.
Movie9.0DramaEmma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
Tristi amori
1943 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
A young girl learns that she is the daughter of an executed politician and conspires to avenge her father's memory.
MovieMysteryCrime- Movie8.0
Directed by Gennaro Righelli.
Orizzonte di sangue
1942 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceAmore imperiale
1941 · 2 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
Movie8.0An engineer living in Brazil meets a variety dancer during a temporary stay in Italy. He falls in love with her and convinces her to follow him abroad. But the head of the fazenda, at which he is employed, falls in love with the girl and uses all his power to force her to his will.
Il suo destino
1938 · 1 votes
MovieComedyAn amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain of Collegno: a man who has run away from his henpecking wife is welcomed by a rich woman who has mistaken him for her missing husband.