Evi Maltagliati

In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…

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Hoping to avoid the fate of his anti-Fascist father, an Italian leaves his community to marry a nobleman's daughter.

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A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

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A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

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Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.

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A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.

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The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.

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Aldo, a middle class family man decides to enjoy his last night alone while his family is away on vacation. He meets a pretty girl and takes her to his home. While he is in the kitchen preparing drinks, a shot goes off.

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Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...

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Peter is commissioned by William to rob an Amsterdam bank. He wants to find out who li is working for. With the help of Corinne, a young prostitute, he investigates and approaches the bank.

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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 unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.

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Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.

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Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani manages to convince her parents to let her spend the summer holidays together with her Genoese friend Diana D'Aquino in her villa in Rapallo.

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A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.

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Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.

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The young writer Vanya is in love with Natasha, the beautiful daughter of Ikmenev, the man who raised him like a father. But the girl is infatuated with Alyosha, the son of Prince Valkovsky, an evil and unscrupulous individual who hinders the relationship by ruining Ikmenev, his administrator, and ensuring that his son chooses the rich and noble Katia. The arrival of Nelly, a fragile and restless orphan, will bring to light a distant secret and allow Vanya and Natasha to find themselves and begin their love affair. Vittorio Cottafavi expertly delves into a world full of intrigue, twists and turns, and deep emotions.

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Three women share the same apartment and the same goal, to find a wealthy husband and settle down.

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A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.

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Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.

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A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.

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A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

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Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.

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An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.

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A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.

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Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.

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