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Il terrore dei mari (1961)
Character: Delores
In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children ...
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Vortice (1953)
Character: Elena Fanti
Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
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Il segreto di Don Giovanni (1947)
Character: Anna Tancredi
Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
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Saranno uomini (1957)
Character: Sara
After leaving the reformatory where they spent their childhood, three boys begin their journey in life. The protagonist ends up becoming a criminal, but is finally redeemed by another of his former classmates, who has become a priest.
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Sed de amor (1959)
Character: Maria
Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble
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Mondo pazzo... gente matta! (1966)
Character: Ruth
A group of young musicians organize a show that will turn out to be a hodgepodge, yet still manage to entertain the audience with their cheerful lighthearted songs.
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Il barone Carlo Mazza (1948)
Character: Rosa Pezza
Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
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Io sono il capataz (1951)
Character: Rosa de Fuego
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
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Koenigsmark (1953)
Character: La grande-duchesse Aurore de Lautenburg
A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
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SuperTotò (1980)
Character: N/A
After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from films performed by the late comedian actor, collected in chapters.
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La Tour de Nesle (1955)
Character: Marguerite de Bourgogne
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
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Tiburzi (1996)
Character: Il Destino
An unconventional biopic about the legendary Tuscan bandit Tiburzi, who became a peasants' hero in the late nineteenth century
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Le avventure di Mandrin (1952)
Character: Rosetta
Mandrin, 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.
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L'Incantevole nemica (1953)
Character: Silvia Albertini
The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
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Amori di mezzo secolo (1954)
Character: Susanna (segment "Dopoguerra 1920")
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
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Cesta duga godinu dana (1958)
Character: Giuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina)
Set in an unspecified country and an unspecified time period, the film follows a communist intelectual who, after travelling the world for many decades, decides to return and settle down to the place he grew up in, a small coastal village seemingly forgotten by time itself. With him, he brings news of the dawn of a new world on the horizon, with which he wishes to connect with through constructing a modern highway. This news is welcomed in the village, however, the construction of the road begins to bring out violent conflicts, reveals forbidden romances and ends up regressing the community even further into the darkness from which it wanted to escape.
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Il tassinaro (1983)
Character: Silvana Pampanini
Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87".
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Un giorno in pretura (1954)
Character: Luisa
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
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L'inafferrabile 12 (1950)
Character: Clara
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
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Biancaneve e i sette ladri (1949)
Character: Eleonora
A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
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È arrivato il Cavaliere (1950)
Character: Carla Colombo
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
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La principessa delle Canarie (1954)
Character: Guayarmina
1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
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La Loi des rues (1956)
Character: Wanda
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
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La forza del destino (1950)
Character: N/A
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
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47 morto che parla (1950)
Character: Madame Bonbon, la canzonettista
Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
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La tratta delle bianche (1952)
Character: Lucia
In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women, to be exploited and sent off to who knows where. One of these women is Alda, who has evaded the ring once, but when her boyfriend is arrested, finds herself back in Machedi's net.
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Bellezze in bicicletta (1951)
Character: Silvana
Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
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Arrivederci, papà! (1948)
Character: Chornette
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
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Orient Express (1954)
Character: Beatrice Landi
On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives.
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Processo alla città (1952)
Character: Liliana Ferrara
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
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Canzoni di mezzo secolo (1952)
Character: N/A
Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
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Allegro squadrone (1954)
Character: Albertina
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
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Viva il cinema (1953)
Character: herself
Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.
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Racconti romani (1955)
Character: Maria
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
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Il matrimonio (1954)
Character: Elena Ivanovna Popova, la vedova
An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
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La paura fa 90 (1951)
Character: Luisa Bonneur
A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
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Era lui, sì, sì! (1951)
Character: Self
Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.
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Una bruna indiavolata! (1951)
Character: Chiara
Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
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La schiava del peccato (1954)
Character: Mara Gualtieri
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
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La bella di Roma (1955)
Character: Nannina
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
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I pompieri di Viggiù (1949)
Character: Fiamma
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
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Bufere (1953)
Character: Daisy Parnell
A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.
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Un marito per Anna Zaccheo (1953)
Character: Anna Zaccheo
Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
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O.K. Nerone (1951)
Character: Empress Poppea
Two 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.
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La presidentessa (1952)
Character: Gobette, la soubrette
A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
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Il gaucho (1964)
Character: Luciana
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
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Il richiamo nella tempesta (1950)
Character: Carla
A paralyzed young woman falls in love with her cousin's boyfriend without ever seeing him, only through his relative's descriptions. After her death, the girl comes down to earth to spend an evening with her lover. The latter promises to follow her soon.
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Antonio di Padova (1949)
Character: Anita - madre di Ferdinando
Biography of the famous saint of Portuguese origin recalled from the readings of a young boy who one day goes to church with his mother to pray for the return of his father, who is missing in action.
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Οι άσσοι του γηπέδου (1956)
Character: Silvana Pampanini
The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
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