Movies: Gustavo Serena

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child....

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come....

France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit....

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter....

Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But their mutual enemies figure out a lie that will separate them. Maria will become temporarily rich but then she will commit a crime and will div...

The film depicts the daring endeavors of Michele Pezza, the patriot/ bandit who opposed the Napoleonic occupation of the Kingdom of Naples at the turn of the 19th century....

Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society....

Anna is a wily shepherd girl who is noticed by Ugo, a promising musician who has returned home to his village in search of inspiration....

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet....

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Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information. All is proceeding according to plan until Diana slowl...

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La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s father disapproves of the relationship and convinces Marguerite to leave Armand, making him believe that she has...

An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives....

Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite and aristocratic heiress. Two sides of a woman with a split personality....

The first fascist propaganda film....

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During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness....

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It all begins when Nirka takes the daughter she has had by Prince Rodolpho and hands her to a confederate. He in turn hands her over to a hag, who first torments her, and later abandons her to an orphanage....