Renato Montalbano

Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she...

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.

Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world...

In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad...

Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised...

A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges...

The Spaniards under Charles V aim to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitorous allies like Don Lorenzo. Lorenzo conspires to marry off his...

Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that...

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise...

Rossellini's interpretation of Descartes' life.

Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in...

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives...

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's...

The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925...

Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.

A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they...

Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and...

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a...

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the...

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.

A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.

Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger...

Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula.

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed...

A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.

Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a...

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.

Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair...

A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.

The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up,...

The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.

German journalist Peter Holberg arrives in Hong Kong and, by accident, he is carrying a microfilm that was destined to local gang lord, Marek. Peter...

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to...

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful...

Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new...

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into...

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the...

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with...

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because...

A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich...

A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.

Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly...

Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also...

A deadly manhunt takes three people through the sordid streets of the Philadelphia underworld, in search of killers and the truth, where every clue...

Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst....

The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in...

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira,...

Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that...