Giovanni Pastrone

Povere bimbe

Hedda Gabler

Based on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1890-…

La Moglie di Claudio

Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son …

The War and the Dream of Momi

"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de C…

The Fire

A film based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame. Pina Menichelli plays a vamp who ruins a pain…

The Royal Tigress

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suit…

The Warrior

A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war …

Cabiria

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice…

Stronger than Sherlock Holmes

A bourgeois gentleman gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored …