The best Marcello Mastroianni’s history movies

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Marcello Mastroianni

28/09/1924- 19/12/1996
Today we present the best Marcello Mastroianni’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Marcello Mastroianni’s movies.

One Hundred and One Nights

One Hundred and One Nights
6.5/10
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.

The Night of Varennes

The Night of Varennes
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/05/1982
  • Character: Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt
In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.

Allonsanfan

Allonsanfan
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 06/09/1974
  • Character: Fulvio Imbriani
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 24/10/1973
  • Character: Father Pietro Antonelli
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.

House of Ricordi

House of Ricordi
6.2/10
  • Genre: History
  • Release: 01/12/1954
  • Character: Gaetano Donizetti
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

1870

1870
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 07/01/1972
  • Character: Augusto Parenti
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
6.6/10

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 10/01/1948
  • Character: Un rivoluzionario
Valjean's new life as a man of position and respect is forever threatened by dogged detective Javert.

Scipio the African

Scipio the African
6.7/10
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.

Storm Over Paris

Storm Over Paris
6.6/10
Second part of the adapation of Hugo's novel "Les misérables".

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