Movies: Giacomo Rondinella

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary a...

Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family....

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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....

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind....

A wealthy and jealous merchant tries to lure a young girl away from her boyfriend by offering to pay to stage small singing concerts for her....

Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years....

Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?...

Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises betwe...

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen....

Two young men try to make it big as musicians....

A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members....

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Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs....

A 1983 Italian film....

A 1955 film directed by Giorgio Pastina....

Anna's Sin tells the story of a black American actor (Johnson) who falls in love with a white woman playing Desdemona to his Othello on the Italian stage....

The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another...

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