In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. Read More »
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Il processo di Santa Teresa del bambino Gesù (1967) Vittorio Cottafavi, Enrico Ribulsi, Tino Bianchi, Giancarlo Fantini
During the final stages of the beatification process of Thérèse of the Child Jesus Read More »
The Flame that Never Dies / Fiamma che non si spegne (1949) Vittorio Cottafavi, Gino Cervi, María Denis, Leonardo Cortese
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D’Acquisto. Read More »
Fiamme sul mare (1948) Vittorio Cottafavi, Michal Waszynski, Carlo Ninchi, Evi Maltagliati, Silvana Jachino
A former war captain buys a wrecked ship Read More »
Jailbirds / Avanzi di galera (1954) Vittorio Cottafavi, Richard Basehart, Walter Chiari, Eddie Constantine
Three prisoners are discharged from jail: Stefano Luprandi, a surgeon accused of murdering Read More »
Hercules and the Captive Women / Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961) Vittorio Cottafavi, Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni
The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) Read More »
Messalina Venere imperatrice (1960) Vittorio Cottafavi, Belinda Lee, Spyros Fokas, Carlo Giustini
After the tyrannical Emperor Caligula was murdered by his Praetorian Guards, Rome needs a new emperor. Read More »
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo
Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
A Woman Has Killed (1952) Vittorio Cottafavi, Frank Latimore, Lianella Carell, Alessandro Serbaroli
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film Read More »
The Legions of Cleopatra (1959) Vittorio Cottafavi, Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni, Georges Marchal
Roman Emperor Octavian rules the empire from Rome, and his rival Marc Antony has taken Egyptian queen Cleopatra Read More »