Most Popular Ennio Flaiano Trailers
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07 March 1953
Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer.
19 April 1947
The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.
26 August 1953
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome.
26 October 1986
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
24 November 1954
Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous.
17 December 1942
The public and private life of Eugenio Pacelli, elected Pope Pius XII.
22 September 1954
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results.
05 February 1960
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
15 August 1958
As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress.
14 February 1963
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show.
02 September 1964
This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother.
16 March 1954
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
14 March 1958
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
03 October 1957
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world.
31 August 1963
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
07 April 1967
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
23 September 1954
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together.
24 January 1961
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
25 February 1969
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life.
02 December 1965
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt.
22 October 1965
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable.
11 August 1972
Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married.
23 February 1962
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
25 February 1954
Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon after seduced by the very consul who drives her away after his daughter loses her life due to Ersilia's distraction.
27 November 1958
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio.
04 April 2007
In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nazareth.
27 October 1954
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong.
23 August 1965
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France.
21 January 1954
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
18 December 1953
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.
31 March 1970
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers.
20 August 1953
Roberto Biasetti and a friend are unjustly sentenced to sixteen years in prison for murder. The true perpetrator of the crime is a man named Maremmano, who happens to be in the same cell.
29 April 1965
Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.
17 September 1953
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright.
07 June 1968
An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding.
17 September 1969
Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.
20 November 1955
A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific.
01 September 1954
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
06 December 1950
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent.
02 March 1955
During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
27 September 1952
In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome.
16 February 1966
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry.
01 August 1948
A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes.
29 November 1951
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him.
07 October 1955
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso.
10 September 1989
During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck.
15 November 1951
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
29 December 1954
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge.
05 March 1954
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
28 December 1954
When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
03 March 1950
In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief.
01 April 1961
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal.
09 December 1946
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.
02 April 2003
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates.
03 February 1956
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.