Renato Castellani

Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old... (imdb)

Carmela pursues Antonio until they fall in love and must face the hostility of their parents.

Set in 13th-century Italy, The Iron Crown is the story of the rise and fall of a corrupt monarch. By defying the crown, a symbol of justice, the monarch is plagued with a series of horrifying visions predicting dire consequences. (allmovie.com)

The nobleman Dmitri is at court as a juror. In an accused prostitute he recognizes a maid which he had seduced years ago. He wants to help Katjuscha out of her current misery, but she is convicted by mistake and sent to a prison in Siberia. The movie is based on the novel by Leo Tolstoi.

Children on the brink of growing up, roaming the working-class San Giovanni neighborhood south of Rome's Stazioni Termini, experience the small tragedies and triumphs of adult life in Castellani's enjoyable and finely tuned portrait. A contemporary reviewer noted in 1949, "Definitely an authentic tranche de vie--yet lacking in the tiresome moral bind of the naturalists, the dreary political aims of the populists." (National Gallery of Art)

Drama about an innocent housewife falsely convicted of theft. Sent to a women's prison in Rome, she is trying to survive and learn to cope in the company of murderers, thieves and prostitutes. (worldcat)

Film in three episodes: Cocaine on Sunday the professor a businesswoman, Studies in frustration. (bfi)

Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire... (imdb)

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.

A janitor (Aldo Fabrizi) seeks the social redemption allowing the child, to the sound of sacrifices, to study until becaming a teacher right in the school where he works. (Wikipedia)

An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he'd had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught. (Letterboxd)

Story of Nino, a young boy, and the vicissitudes of his family in a small Calabrian town during the thirties and forties. After Don Francesco Tomea, local landowner, expelled his family from their land and home, and Nino's father is taken as workforce for Germany during World War II, the boy will start a friendship with Michele Rende, a renegade who after being falsely accused of murder will escape from prison and end up leading a revolt to seize plots of unused land owned by the landowner. (Filmaffinity)

Gianneto and Neri clash for the affections of the beautiful Ginerva, and Gianneto thirsts for revenge over a "cruel joke" played on him by Neri and his brother Gabriello.

A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.

Giacomo Perotti, who made his fortune in America, returns to Italy rich and wealthy. He wants, above all else, to find the woman who in his youth one day smiled at him, making him fall in love. This nostalgic and utopian dream is the chance for a shady entrepreneur to persuade him to finance a film in memory of the episode of his distant youth.

The film portrays the rise into high society of an immoral young man.

A space age version of "Treasure Island". Instead of ships, there are spaceships, and instead of an island, there is a planet. This version also includes androids, laser weapons and skeletal remains of colossal space beasts. (imdb)

The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night…

A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.