A nasty Rome police chief circa 1800 forces the lover of a painter, suspected of harboring a political prisoner, to reveal the hiding place and to yield to his power…
In Pietro Mascagni’s tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she’s married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy,…
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers…
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L’avventura’s Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including…
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding…