Gherardo Gherardi

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Fiamme sul mare

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

Before Him All Rome Trembled

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Before Him All Rome Trembled

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Il canto della vita

During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to escape capture, lives hidden in a cave. To help him there is a young woman who has been in love with him for a long time. However, one day, during one of those daily visits, the boy abuses her.

Nebbie sul mare

A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.

Addio, amore!

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

The Children Are Watching Us

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

Rossini

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.

Rossini

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.

Odessa in Flames

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.

Teresa Venerdì

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.

Teresa Venerdì

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.

Divieto di sosta

A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pretends to be in love with him who, attracted by her youth and rich dowry, proposes that she elope.

Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto

Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.

Cantate Con Me

A famous tenor has a car accident and asks the owner of a pharmacy for hospitality. The pharmacist’s wife is fascinated by the singer and follows him to Rome. Hovewer, she is sent back home.

L'albero di Adamo

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.