Luigi Magni Movies

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from...

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred...

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Rome, 1870. On the eve of the breach of Porta Pia a kidnapping shakes the Jewish Ghetto: a child disappears.

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that...

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant...

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal...

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting...

Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio...

The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.

Three sexy and comic episodes.

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine...

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.

Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped...

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and...