Pina Piovani
Actor · 1897 – 1955 · Corchiano, Lazio, Italy
Movies23
Movie6.1DramaDuring the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
Movie7.0AdventureThe castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.
I tre corsari
1952 · 2 votes
Movie8.0An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
Sinfonia fatale
1947 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives.
Movie5.2ComedyA number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Movie7.5ComedyEsposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
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.
Movie7.1ComedyRocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
Una di quelle
1953 · 13 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.
Movie7.5HistoryAdventureMandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt, favorite of the king, who comes from Versailles just to see him. She will saved his life and allow him to marry Rosetta.
Movie6.8DramaEpisodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
Movie10.0ComedySe vincessi cento milioni
1953 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceSeduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
Movie8.0DramaA young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.
Ho ritrovato mio figlio
1954 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaA young cabaret trainer, Viola, who has just compromised herself in a case, flees. On the train, she meets Dominique, who lives in a cabin in Tuscany, on the edge of the marshes. Dominique and Viola settle in the hut and soon the young woman is expecting a baby...
Il nido di falasco
1950 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyIn Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Il pirata sono io!
1940 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ActionDramaAmore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.
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
Movie5.8DramaRomanceLuisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.
In amore si pecca in due
1954 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Taxi di notte
1950 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaMusicFilm version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
La forza del destino
1950 · 2 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
Movie7.0ComedyCount Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.