Societa Anonima Ambrosio Movies

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love...

Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in...

Italian silent film

A man emerges from the bank with his wallet full. He drops it on the ground. A workman spots it and tries to give it back. Fearing he is about to be...

An adaptation of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche

A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated.

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

Italian drama from the Società Anonima Ambrosio company.

A melodrama about a female lion tamer who has an extramarital relationship with a distinguished gentleman, and then moves in with him. When she later...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined...

This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an...

The story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in...

In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape....

Robinet disguises himself as a woman to get away from his girlfriend’s husband, and discovers the unexpected pleasures of public drag amidst...

The new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her...

Italian short drama

Fricot is sent out to buy a bottle of horse medicine. Fricot drinks it himself, and begins acting like a horse.

A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His...

The model Fede loves the writer Arte, but he is enmeshed by the beautiful Femmina. Fede takes comfort in the Faun, a mythological creature who...