Oreste Grandi Movies

The mighty King of Babylon falls in love with a beautiful girl, ruthlessly tears her away from her lover, who is left wounded upon the ground, and...

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

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...

A woman and a mistress fight.

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.

Italian short drama directed by Luigi Maggi.

This film shows the realistic battle scenes of the Siege of Moscow, with the sensational defeat of Napoleon, with the belching cannon, the battling...

A humble fisherman's singing distubs some witches. The eldest witch tries to make him stop, to no avail. She throws handfuls of gold into the sea,...

Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath...

At Megara, near Carthage (204 B. C.), the slave merchant Sahabalcar lusts after his roman slave Licia, who loves Terentius instead. Threatening her...

Invited by Duke Alfonso II to the court of Ferrara to read his poems, the poet Torquato Tasso finds himself at the center of court intrigue because...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his daughter, and denounces Galilei to the Holy Office.

After seven years of traveling, Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast. Here they are led...

A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor....

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

Count Christian of Sivry secretly marries a beautiful factory worker, but his father disowns him. Living as a poor worker, he becomes a jockey when...

Elsa, daughter of the Count of Arcole, is terminally ill. Moved by a violin playing Gounod's "Ave Maria" in a small church, she longs to meet the...

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.