Movies: Pasquali E C

Polidor wins the friendship of an elephant whom he liberates from a splinter in his foot...

The second adaptation of Raffaello Giovagnoli's novel comes at a time when Italy really started pumping out their epic films with the longer running times, expensive sets and lavish production values. This film really doesn't stray too far from the s...

One of the most famous of the early Italian epics which brought about the change from short subjects to feature films in America. Massive crowd scenes, spectacular sets that rival the sets from Intolerance and an interesting story all add up to fine ...

In a scheme that is all the more convincing on silent film, Polydor attempts to fool a high-society mob with a no-talent singer who lip-synchs recordings from a hidden Gramophone. (MoMA)...

79 AD. In the city of Pompeii the young Glaucus loves beautiful Jone, although he's courted by Giulia and secretly loved by his blind slave Nidia. One day Glaucus is wrongly accused of murder by a priest of Isis, Arbace, who wants to marry Jone and p...

Tonino Giolino is the cute little grandson of the prison warden. He loves helping grandfather his his duties, and is especially fond of hangings and the rack..... no. Basically, he goes into the cells with buckets of water for the prisoners. One of t...

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Polidor finds out that his uncle, who made a fortune in America, is about to come back home. Polidor has never seen him, but he knows that his uncle has a bump on his head......

Polidor applies for a job that requires a collar....

Using movement, colors and light – in a story that develops from dawn to dusk – the director confronts the splendor of the city and forces all the rules and technologies available to him to give us back not so much reality as impressions of pure beau...

A tour of the "ethno-geographical" and "zoological gardens" in Hamburg, Germany, which weaved the global ideas of the end of the century 19th century World's Fair....

Compilation film....