Sandro Ruffini

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.

A farmer steals some jewelry, desperately looking for money to allow his sick daughter to be operated by a famous surgeon.

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is...

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.

A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk...

By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his...

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace...

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of...

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves,...

Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia,...

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and...

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times...

A young marquis seduces a farmer's daughter and then leaves her while she's pregnant with his child. Many years later he comes back and seduces the...

This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their...

Gino 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...

A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is...

Early Antonioni documentary short on the making of Fumetti (Italian photo comics) and their role in Italian society.

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries...

The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer,...

In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the...

Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace...

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to...

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him...

After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.