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1920s Italian Movies

Public list by WPS with 36 movies or TV shows/series

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The Mechanical Man(1921)

1h 20min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however by a gang of criminals, led by a woman named Mado, who wish to get the instructions for building the mechanical man. The criminals are captured before they are able to get them and are brought to trial and condemned. Mado manages to escape and kidnaps the scientist's niece whom she forces to give her the instructions which she uses to build a mechanical man.

Directed by André Deed - With André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli

Maciste in Hell(1925)

1h 35min | Fantasy, Horror, Drama
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.

Directed by Guido Brignone - With Bartolomeo Pagano, Elena Sangro, Polaire, Franz Sala, Sergio Amidei

Rails(1929)

1h 31min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A young honeymooning couple are lured away to a seaside resort by a high-society sleazeball, who has plans to seduce the girl, while at the same time her hubby in desperation stakes all his money on the roulette wheels.

Directed by Mario Camerini - With Käthe von Nagy, Maurizio D'Ancora, Giacomo Moschini, Mario Camerini, Guido Celano, Carola Lotti, ...

Il gigante delle Dolomiti(1927)

Drama, Action, Adventure

The Giant of the Dolomites (Italian: Il gigante delle Dolomiti) is a 1927 Italian silent adventure film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Bartolomeo Pagano, Aldo Marus and Elena Lunda.[1] It was the last in a series of silent films featuring the peplum hero Maciste, but the character was later revived in the 1960s.

Directed by Guido Brignone - With Bartolomeo Pagano, Elena Lunda, Luigi Serventi, Felice Minotti

Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni(1926)

1h 30min | Adventure
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.

Directed by Guido Brignone - With Alberto Collo, Bartolomeo Pagano, Franz Sala, Elena Sangro, Luigi Serventi

Maciste in Africa(1926)

1h 22min | Action, Adventure

A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor. He and Maciste fight off the entire crew but the girl is captured again by the sheik and carried off to his harem, where Maciste and the sailor rescue her and take her back to Italy.

Directed by Mario Camerini - With Felice Minotti, Bartolomeo Pagano, Franz Sala, Arnold Kent

Il cantastorie di Venezia(1929)

Comedy

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Atto Retti-Marsani - With Hertha von Walther, Luigi Serventi

Messalina(1924)

1h 45min | Drama, History
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

In ancient Rome, tyrannical Emperor Caligula is assassinated through the machinations of Messalina. She then makes a conquest of Marcus, who forces the Senate to name her husband, Claudius, as emperor. Messalina's wicked ways continue when she falls in love with Ennio, a slave. Ennio is also loved by Egyptian princess Mirit, but he loves neither of them, preferring the company of Ela, a Greek slave.

Directed by Enrico Guazzoni - With Rina De Liguoro, Augusto Mastripietri, Gino Talamo, Gildo Bocci, Aristide Garbini, Calisto Bertramo, ...

Quo Vadis?(1924)

1h 30min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.

Directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio, Georg Jacoby - With Emil Jannings, Elena Sangro, Lillian Hall-Davis, Rina De Liguoro, Gildo Bocci, Elga Brink, ...

The Ship(1921)

11min | Drama, History
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The newly-settled city of Venice in the Sixth Century AD: A wandering people struggle to establish Christian Theocracy. Basiliola Faledro, an exotic dancer, wicked and cunning, arrives from faraway lands seeking to avenge her pagan lineage; Her father and brothers blinded and humilated by frenzied zealots. Her primary targets are the brothers Gràtico, both newly-elected to positions of power: One, Marco, an arbiter and tribune, the other, Sergio, a bishop. The title refers to a bold pronouncement made by Deaconess Ema Gràtico to her subjects the Venetians, a seafaring and desperate tribe-- That their native homeland is aboard a ship.

Directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio - With Ida Rubinstein, Ciro Galvani, Alfredo Boccolini, Mary Cleo Tarlarini

Cyrano de Bergerac(1923)

1h 53min | War, Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman. Thus, he cannot have the woman he loves, his cousin Roxanne. Roxanne loves an officer in his army who gets tongue-tied in front of women. Who will Roxanne love? Will Cyrano ever find love? Or will he find happiness in helping the officer woo Roxanne? This is a story of split personalities, human frailty and unrequited love.

Directed by Augusto Genina - With Pierre Magnier, Alex Bernard, Angelo Ferrari, Maurice Schutz

Nero(1922)

NR
| 2h | History, Drama

Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.

Directed by J. Gordon Edwards - With Sandro Salvini, Nerio Bernardi, Nello Carotenuto, Violet Mersereau, Ferruccio Biancini, Jacques Grétillat, ...
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Sole!(1929)

1h 16min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event in Fascist political history.

Directed by Alessandro Blasetti - With Vasco Creti, Dria Paola, Vittorio Vaser, Rinaldo Rinaldi

Il quadro di Osvaldo Mars(1921)

56min

A countess, discovering that a painting of her provocatively dressed as Salome by the artist Osvaldo Mars is to be publicly exhibited, slashes the canvas. When he is found dead soon afterwards she is suspected of his murder.

Directed by Guido Brignone

Za-la-mort(1924)

Crime

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Emilio Ghione - With Fern Andra, Magnus Stifter

The Last Days of Pompeii(1926)

3h 16min | History
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in the mid-1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii, followed by a screening at the major restoration festival ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna in 1998.

Directed by Carmine Gallone, Amleto Palermi - With Victor Varconi, Rina De Liguoro, María Corda, Bernhard Goetzke, Emilio Ghione, Carlo Gualandri, ...

Amore rosso(1921)

Drama

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Gennaro Righelli - With Maria Jacobini, Amleto Novelli, Ida Carloni Talli, Oreste Bilancia, Alfonso Cassini

L'ultimo lord(1926)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Augusto Genina - With Oreste Bilancia, Carmen Boni, Bonaventura Ibáñez, Arnold Kent, Gianna Terribili-Gonzales

Kif Tebbi(1928)

1h 35min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.

Directed by Mario Camerini - With Piero Carnabuci, Raimondo Van Riel, Gino Viotti, Alberto Pasquali, Marcello Spada

The Carnival of Venice(1928)

Drama

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Mario Almirante - With Maria Jacobini, Bonaventura Ibáñez

Beatrice(1921)

A silent film directed by Herbert Brenon.

Directed by Herbert Brenon - With Marie Doro, Sandro Salvini

The Isle of Zorda(1921)

1h 50min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sarkani, an adventurer, finds a trusted carrier pigeon, takes possession of the code message and, teaming up with the unscrupulous banker Torenthal, gets the position of secretary from Matthias Sandorff. After deciphering the message, he discovers a conspiracy against the government. By law, Thorenthal and Sarkani receive half of Sandorff's fortune. His kidnapped daughter was raised by Thorenthal as his own child, and in order to keep her share of the fortune, he tries to marry her off to Sarkani, but she is in love with the son of one of Sandorff's friends and refuses. Sandorff takes over the fisherman who betrayed him, as well as the banker who lost his fortune in Monte Carlo. Together with Sava's beloved, whom he cured, they save Sava and take Sarkani into their own hands. Sandorf surrenders them to the legitimate authorities, unites his daughter and her lover, and everyone lives happily on the island of Zord.

Directed by Henri Fescourt - With Armand Dutertre, Djemil Anik, Gaston Modot, Jean Toulout, Romuald Joubé, Yvette Andréyor, ...

Consuelita(1925)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Roberto Roberti - With Francesca Bertini, Ida Carloni Talli, Alfonso Cassini

The Betrothed(1922)

2h 20min | History, Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy "northern Italy" during the Spanish domination, tells of the contrasted marriage between the two young textile workers Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is the most ambitious and spectacular film in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that triggered the censorship.

Directed by Mario Bonnard - With Ida Carloni Talli, Olga Capri, Enzo Biliotti, Domenico Serra, Raimondo Van Riel, Bonaventura Ibáñez, ...

Addio giovinezza!(1927)

1h 27min
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The movie is about a student in Turin during the 1920s (moved up from the earlier versions) and his love for a a seamstress. The student, Mario, is played by Walter Slezak; the girl Dorina by Carmen Boni. The femme fatale Elena (Elena Sangro) threatens the relationship. When school days end, seen here as a kind of transitory idyll, it is "farewell to youth" as the title states, and a melancholy goodbye to youthful romances as well to allow new lives to take form.

Directed by Augusto Genina - With Carmen Boni, Walter Slezak, Elena Sangro

La donna nuda(1922)

1h 8min | Comedy

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Roberto Roberti - With Francesca Bertini, Angelo Ferrari, Gino Viotti

A Woman's Story(1920)

1h 6min
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of the film «La storia di una donna», in which Pina Menichelli played the main role, is typical for «divas-films» – it’s about beauty and weakness of a woman, insidiousness and cowardice of men, inevitable destiny and mad passion….

Directed by Eugenio Perego - With Pina Menichelli, Luigi Serventi, Livio Pavanelli

Cainà(1922)

50min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.

Directed by Gennaro Righelli - With Maria Jacobini, Ida Carloni Talli

La seconda moglie(1922)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Amleto Palermi - With Pina Menichelli, Livio Pavanelli, Alfredo Bertone, Elena Lunda, Alfredo Martinelli, Alfredo Menichelli, ...

La Casa Sotto la Neve(1922)

1h 30min
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A snowy Italian drama directed by Gennaro Righelli.

Directed by Gennaro Righelli - With Maria Jacobini, Alberto Capozzi
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