Lea Padovani

Divisione Folgore

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.

Candy

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

The Lovers of Montparnasse

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

Three Steps North

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 on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.

The King's Whore

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

I figli non si vendono

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

The Naked Maja

A historical fiction based on the lives of the artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba.

Toto and the Women

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

The Istambul Train

Set on the Orient Express train, which traveled from Ostend, Belgium, to Istanbul, Turkey, it features several characters whose destinies intertwine, each bearing their own burden of torment: race, sexual frustration, political failure, poverty. Among them are Carlston Myatt, a Jewish businessman, and Dr. Czinner, a Slavic politician who escaped a death sentence five years earlier and is intent on returning to Belgrade.

Outcry

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

An Eye for an Eye

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

Scandal in Sorrento

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

The Anatomy of Love

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

I due derelitti

Almost a Man

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.