Alessandro Blasetti Movies

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the...

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...

La Contessa di Parma was the sole directorial contribution by Allesandro Blasetti in 1937. The first of several expensive costume dramas upon which...

Documentary directed by Alessandro Blasetti.

A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has...

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of...

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic...

Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace...

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the...

With a panoramic view of the city with the countryside in the background, the documentary approaches the urban area by framing the basilica, while...

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?)...

The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him...