Umberto Sacripante
Actor · 1904 – 1975 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Umberto Sacripante was born on 2 October 1904 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Umanità (1946), Cavallina storna (1953) and Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960). He died on 14 January 1975.
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Movie6.6WarRomanceThe love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
War and Peace
1956 · 282 votes
Movie7.0AdventureComedyBurt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
The Crimson Pirate
1952 · 166 votes
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.
Movie6.2ComedySandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Movie7.4DramaComedyTravelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
Movie7.0AdventureWarA beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.
Movie5.2ComedyA number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Movie5.7CrimeDramaFlucht in die Dolomiten
1955 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyTwo American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Movie7.0ComedyIn this delightful mixture of romance, comedy and music, the director turns back the wheel of time about sixty years and shows the audience an Italy of primitive railroads, high bicycles and the famous "dolce far niente." Taking the visit of a traveling opera company to a small town, where it is scheduled to present "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" and where one of the most important citizens is a retired opera singer, the scenario writer weaves a web of merry complications well calculated to keep the spectators in a happy mood.
Movie9.0DramaHistoryRuggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.
Movie6.7ComedyThe film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Movie8.0DramaParis 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
Movie7.0DramaA popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.
Movie6.2AdventureActionOn his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.
Movie5.5DramaMario Clar is the successful co-owner of an engineering firm in Zurich. The news that a bridge he designed has collapsed, killing 43 people, hits this dependable man all the harder. Mario’s feelings of guilt are so intense that he decides to end his life in the mountains.
Von der Liebe besiegt
1956 · 2 votes
Movie5.8HistoryDramaIn ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
Fabiola
1949 · 11 votes
Movie7.1DramaDuring an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers ploto to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. There is another version of the film titled The Challenge, shot the same year in English.
Movie6.5AdventureEverything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Movie7.0AdventureDer goldene Falke
1955 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceLa muta di Portici
1952 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ComedyA comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Movie6.6DramaActionImmediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.