María Denis

The year is 1860. The Sicilian patriots, who had retreated into the mountains, awaited the arrival of Garibaldi's troops to free the island from Bourbon rule. Travelling from Sicily which was nervously preparing for the landing of the "Thousand", the shepherd Carmeliddu reached the peninsula on behalf of Father Costanzo, a friar who helped the rebels. The purpose of his mission is to reach Liguria and ensure that Garibaldi's expedition is real... (RAI International Online)

In 1933, Treno popolare is the debut of a twenty-three-year-old who explodes every propagandist prescription because he has seen and assimilated the expressionist lyricism of Menschen am Sonntag, because he breathes with joy the avant-garde, because he has a sense of "realist" mise-en-scène which surely anticipates noisy August Sundays, but also the desolate sweetness of a Partie de Campagne. This beautiful film pleased none. (Paola Cristalli)

Loves and adventures of a young chauffeur. (bfi)

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself. (imdb)

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.

Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.

The film stars Elisa Cegani as Marcella, a model in the dress shop owned by enterprising Umberto Melnati. To improve his business, the owner instructs his models to dress up as society ladies and attend all the best parties. And that's how humble little Marcella comes to be mistaken for the popular Duchess of Parma -- and by extension, how our heroine wins the love of football hero Gino Vanni (Antonio Centa). (Hal Erickson)

In 1939, having completed their studies in a boarding house of Roman nuns, seven girls live out their first impact with reality. (KG)

Film set in the 1910s, in an Italian school. A male school teacher falls in love with the female gymnastics teacher at the school. She is attracted to him, but their students attempt to sabotage the prospective romance. (imdb)

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment.