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Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to …

Giorgio, an Italian-American appointed to the Ministry of Culture, arrives in Italy with big plans for his election campaign. Giorgio and his assistant Marco hire an Instagram influencer and an ex-prisone…

An intimate portrait reveals the revolutionary mind of Pierre Cardin, the visionary designer who transformed fashion from exclusive haute couture to global ready-to-wear empire. Through exclusive access t…

Directed by Dante Testa and Gino Zaccaria.

A mysterious stranger rides into Rainbow Valley and finds himself mistaken for a Civil War veteran presumed dead, drawing him into a deadly confrontation with a ruthless local boss who will stop at nothin…

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

Sincere but struggling sculptor Tommasso (Caruso--bushy moustache, gawky) works in an ornamental plaster shop, but his masterpiece on the side is a bust of his cousin Caroli (Caruso--no moustache, polishe…

Forbidden love blossoms in the city of Pompeii, which until the eruption of volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the empire's most powerful cities.

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love with her new master, but he only has eyes for Ione. Ione …

A film from the Società Anonima Ambrosio company.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, …

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

After losing an arm in an explosion caused by his attempt to resurrect his recently deceased mother, Chris Burst, a young laboratory assistant, seeks refuge in the home of a drug dealer known to his frien…

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue ionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...