Folco Lulli

In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. (imdb)

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occur during the journey. (imdb)

Mario Monicelli's wonderfully full portrait of an early workers' strike at a Turino textile factory. (IMDB Comments)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. (imdb)

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England. (imdb)

The setting is Persia in the 4th century BC, as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The king has been trying to stifle and defeat the campaign of hatred fomented against the Jews by his evil minister Haman (Sergio Fantoni). Before the King can pair off with Esther and defeat the villainous Haman, there are several intervening adventures and an additional, attractive woman who competes for attention. (All Movie Guide)

Bandit Quintaras hires gunman Stark to bring his son Fidel back, who ran away and joined a dangerous band of outlaws. Stark develops a strategy to lure Fidel away from the gang and trick everyone, but Fidel doesn't even want to get back to his father, and a cat and mouse game unfolds. When Stark finally manages to deliver Fidel to his father, things come to light... (spaghetti-western.net)

Beniamino and his family have lived in a school from the end of World War II. But five years have passed and they are compelled to move. In Rome, however, it is difficult to find an apartment. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but in the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and they flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Last they find a fine and large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people too. (Baldinotto da Pistoia)

A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide (Juan Chasquisdo) to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits. (imdb)

The shepherd Francesco Dominici (Raf Vallone) returns home after three years fighting in the war to find that his flock had been stolen by local big-shot Agostino Bonfiglio (Folco Lulli).

The title character is Ernesto (Amadeo Nazzari), who turns to crime after suffering shell shock during WW II. Magnani plays Ernesto's faithful girlfriend Lydia. Their relationship is as foredoomed as Ernesto himself, who comes to grief through an extreme act of self-sacrifice. (allmovie.com)

The plot is based on an actual postwar dilemma: in Northern Italy, dozens of black American GIs chose to go AWOL rather than return to a racially divided United States. John Kitzmiller plays an occupation soldier named Jerry, who decides to remain in Italy when he falls in love with a blonde, Caucasian local girl named Angela (Carla Del Poggio). (allmovie.com)

A young woman working in rice paddy fields finds herself the object of affection for her boss, his son and a mechanic.

At 13 years old, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier inherited from his parents a long name, a fortune bigger then that, and the title of Marquis de La Fayette. Barely past majority, he was a brilliant lieutenant and a King Musketeer, and married Adrienne, second daughter of the Duke of Ayen. (imdb)

Medieval spectacle describing life among the barbaric Tartars. (bfi)

Semi-burlesque concerning the captain of an Italian fruit freighter who is suddenly drawn into a series of war-time adventures. (bfi)

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

A doctor in North Africa's world is turned upside down when he refuses to help a patient.

A war criminal attempts to cross the Italian border.

1966 Italian comedy film directed by Giancarlo Zagni. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival, in which it won the Leone di San Marco Plate. (wikipedia)

After the end of the War in '45, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, a cooperative has been founded by peasants. War has destroyed the country....The story takes a romantic detour by concentrating on the romance between two young people caught in the middle between the pursuers and the pursued. (KG)

Set in the 13th century, under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders. (imdb)

A young lady named Aldonza receives a communication from the famous Don Quixote, via Sancho Panza, and takes on the identity of the Cervantes character Dulcinea, which gets her into trouble. (imdb)

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops... But she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio. (imdb)