Movies: Francesca Bertini

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides....

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is ent...

Italian short drama from Baldassarre Negroni....

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In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and use...

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the Princess of Lystrie....

Madeleine is a beautiful married woman, hopelessly attracted to her former lover, Jacques. This obsession leads to the destruction of her life and eventually drives her to suicide, while her husband goes insane....

Film version of the play....

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Dora, daughter of the Marchioness of Río Zares, marries the politician Andrés. Despondent, Countess Zicka launches the lie that she is a spy....

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....

Film adaptation of the Celtic legend of Tristan and Iseult....

The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni. The film features the first onscreen performance from Vittorio De Sica....

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century....

Glotonia and Frescalia are neighbor Ducal lands. In Glotonia everyone is fond of food. Young countess Frescalinda, daughter of a citizen of each country and tutored by the Great Duchess, is compelled to marry, but she has fallen in love with captain ...

Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country....

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

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pierrot is led astray by the evil wine merchant Po...

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