Lea Padovani Movies

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social...

An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off...

Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.

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...

The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the...

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds...

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.

In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.

An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love...

While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director...

A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman...

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the...

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

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters...

Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor, Eugenio Devoto, with whom she has exchanged only...