Elisa Cegani Movies

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Fabrizi

A film about twin bothers Jacob & Esau

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Hashim

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...

Genre: History

Cast: Roland Alexandre

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Gabin

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michèle Morgan

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gino Cervi

Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gino Cervi

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dominique Sanda

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norman Wooland

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles Boyer

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Roldano Lupi

To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Harrison

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the...

Genre: History

Cast: Michèle Morgan

Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gino Cervi

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of...

Genre: War

Cast: Elisa Cegani

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Cast: Gerardo Amato

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maximilian Schell

Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Maurizio Nichetti

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsa Merlini

Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisa Cegani

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Amedeo Nazzari

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elisa Cegani

Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Fiore

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Massimo Girotti

Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giovanna Ralli

Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susan Stephen

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Filippo Romito

Pascal's life should have been normal and happy. A shepherd in his native Provence, he was a friendly young man who very naturally fell in love with...

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Cast: Jean Danet

In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi

After her father commits suicide, a young woman asks for help to the son of a Countess and they fall in love.

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Cast: Jacques Sernas

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virna Lisi

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Cornel Wilde

La Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elisa Cegani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisa Cegani

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maximilian Schell

American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Kirk

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Françoise Christophe

Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gigi Proietti

Sandro 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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.

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Cast: Alain Cuny

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophia Loren

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the...

Genre: History

Cast: Gino Cervi

Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nilla Pizzi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antonio Cifariello

Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl,...

Genre: History

Cast: Elisa Cegani