The best Giovanni Grasso’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Giovanni Grasso’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Giovanni Grasso.
Ruy Blas
6.4/10
Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
The Gate of Heaven
6.2/10
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
Of Life and Love
6.3/10
Episodic film.
We the Living
7.2/10
Part One (Part Two was released as Addio Kira!) At 18, the beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out. Meanwhile, a Party leader, Andrei, also loves her, and she feigns love for him to get political protection for Leo and money to pay for his TB treatment. But can Leo forgive her being Andrei's mistress?
Benvenuto Reverendo!
6.4/10
Due cuori fra le belve
5.4/10
Città canora
5.8/10
A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
We the Living
7.4/10
The second part (Part One released the same year was Noi vivi) of the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s debut novel We the Living , a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and Rand's first statement against communism.
The Age of Indiscretion
8.1/10
Toto and Carolina
7/10
Los hijos de la noche
5.4/10
A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his friends. The millionaire receives a telegram from his sister in America who announces her visit after more than twenty years without seeing each other…
Terra di nessuno
Magic Village
5.8/10
The Great Dawn
Under the Southern Cross
6.5/10
Venice Film Festival 1938
La telefonista
6.3/10
Sentinelle di bronzo
Directed by Romolo Marcellini.
Margherita da Cortona
5.8/10
L' ospite sconosciuta
Melodie immortali - Mascagni
6.5/10
