Películas de Checco Durante

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate...

Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which...

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic...

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful...

Two young men are training for a rowing race on the Tiber. One of them, "Marco" is distracted by a new found love.

The kindly "Don Luigi" and his pernickety sister "Angelica" welcome a variety of needy folks to their rectory.

I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person...

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been...

A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.

A young marquis seduces a farmer's daughter and then leaves her while she's pregnant with his child. Many years later he comes back and seduces the...

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They...

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The...

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he...

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their...

This featurette is a burlesque of the Moliere play, The Doctor In Spite of Himself.

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the...

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and...

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court,...

When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it...

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going...

Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count....

Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big...

Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's...

Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people...

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...

Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.

A man turns to a life of crime after his mother's death.

An amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain...

Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue.