Movies: Luis Mottura

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois con...

After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine....

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children....

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend...

After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites with the woman he loved and this time she will confess her love for him. The woman's husband will b...

Foreign spies steal the formula for a revolutionary explosive created by an Italian scientist and to decrypt the secret code they kidnap his secretary who knows about it....

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned....

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and...

To get revenge on her unfaithful husband, a woman pretends to be crazy and makes him believe that she takes her doctor as her husband....

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance....

Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from d...

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Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni....

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother....

Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her....

The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia....

A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man....

An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son....

A man finances the invention of a friend overshadowed and dominated by the women of his family....

A married man hides from his family that he has a black son, which causes a true tragedy....