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A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with. Shown in the USA with Italian dialogue and no English titles.

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.

Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, and Osvaldo Valenti star in this Italian swashbuckler which would have starred Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks had it been made in Hollywood. Salvatore Rosa was a versatile poet and painter of landscapes and battles. His romantic life is the inspiration for this fictional tale of the masked hero, "The Ant", Rosa's alter-ego, a friend and defender of the poor citizens...

A lavish historical pageant about a Renaissance leader trying to unite a still feudal Italy.His band of black shirts anticipates the Fascists of a later Italy when the film was made.

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.

A fisherman with a beautiful voice is heard by the owners of a record company and signed. He falls for the manager but, when he understands that the interest of women is purely professional, he abandons everything.

Ciro Verrati, famed Italian fencing champion, stars as a soldier who turns pirate to avenge his honor. Nerio Barnardi plays the villain, and Slivan Jachino is on hand to provide the romance and decoration, outside of the many fight sequences. Shown in the USA with no English sub-titles.

In an updated version of the Butterfly story, a visiting American conductor leaves a pregnant singer in Italy, promising to return and marry her. Four years later he returns with a wife and hears his old love perform her swan song.

A biography of the opera composer, from his early struggles and wife's death to his later political involvement, a new relationship, final rejuvenation and acclaim.

A story of the Italian troops in Africa.

A lady pianist is torn between the cellist of her quartet and an exotic Indian maharajah she meets on a tour by the troupe.The maharajah, however, has trouble forgetting his dead former love.

Betty Thompson, an American movie actress is visiting Italy and, to create interest, her press agent makes a deal with singer Barnaba Tamburini to make love to her. Barnaba has no objections but his sweetheart, Cecchina Spolveri, has many of her own.

A 19th century count of declining fortunes is approached by three ambitious men who have designs on whatever wealth he still maintains.A mysterious document plays a part in this drama.

Foreign spies steal the formula of a new explosive

An artist finds, when he comes to the city, that his real mother, not the peasant woman who brought him up , is a former actress there.

A rich Sicilian farmer has to move from Sicily to Rome to help his grandson, University student, who has been put in jail.

Angelo Musco leaves his small town in Sicily to go to Rome for an operation. Once there, he decides he likes that continental air and proceeds to acquire a veneer of same...and also acquires a dancer, sporting-and-claiming an even-larger dose of Continental Veneer. They return together to Sicily with Musco under the impression she comes from the continent. Leda's clothes, manners, habits and flirting ways start a small revelation-style revolution, which is not to Musco's liking. He ships Leda back to Rome, but not before learning that he has been taken in by a Scilian native, as Leda was born in a near-by town.

Paola Borboni is in love with Nino Besozzi, but is unable to get him to propose marriage. She tricks him into accompanying her on a search for an alleged husband she has just married but lost at the train station. The search for the non-existent husband takes them to several cities, with Besozzi finally realizing he loves her. But it is not until he gets involved in a duel that Borboni confesses that she has tricked him.