A Korean War veteran’s morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent…

When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a ‘mom and pop’ company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife’s attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to…

A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

Rich is a thirty year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his…

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to…

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the…

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV’s court.