Movies: Oreste Grandi

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A cruel game between the disdainful Kunigund and the passionate Delorges....

A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His best friend vouches for his return. After taking care of his sister, the young man hurries back, but i...

Italian silent film...

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The Giant of the Dolomites (Italian: Il gigante delle Dolomiti) is a 1927 Italian silent adventure film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Bartolomeo Pagano, Aldo Marus and Elena Lunda.[1] It was the last in a series of silent films featuring th...

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence....

After seven years of traveling, Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast. Here they are led by the Amazons to the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who soon falls in love with Aeneas. When the King of N...

A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated....

Maciste takes advantage again of a break of acting in order to wash away injustice and castigate the wicked, this time in the name of dynastic legitimacy. Otis, the prince of Sirdagna kingdom, lives undercover in a foreign land, waiting to ascend the...

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926....

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection....

A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor. He and Maciste fight off the entire crew but the girl is captured again by the sheik and carried off ...

A violinist touches the heart of a sick lady....

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This film shows the realistic battle scenes of the Siege of Moscow, with the sensational defeat of Napoleon, with the belching cannon, the battling soldiers, scenes of heroism and daring reproduced in the most exquisite photography....

A woman and a mistress fight....

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A small faction of the militia of the Kingdom of Ircania are conspiring to dethrone their King, Ircanus III. Beneath her costly robes Queen Maritza hides a woman's heart full of love for Oscar, the king's aide-de-camp....

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his daughter, and denounces Galilei to the Holy Office....