Giovanni Grasso

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour. (imdb)

A story about finding freedom and love in communist Russia.

Doomed love within a corrupt political world. At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out. Meanwhile, a Party leader, Andrei, also loves her, and she feigns love for him to get political protection for Leo and money to pay for his TB treatment... (imdb)

Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in love. (imdb)

Totò follows his beloved to Africa, where he encounters a cannibal tribe, but manages to save her from a dishonest explorer and help her find her anthropologist father. (worldcat)

First of a series on a typical Roman family. (bfi)

A poor Spanish nobleman fights a duel against a cruel captain to save a boy's life. Since a royal edict forbids duelling during Holy Week, the nobleman is sentenced to death by hanging, but he eventually manages to escape this injustice.

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.

A group of pilgrims embark on a long train journey to the sanctuary of Loreto, where they hope to receive a miracle.

Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer. One is attracted to an exotic native girl that the overseer has at the plantation.