The best Ugo Sasso’s drama movies

Ugo Sasso

Ugo Sasso

23/03/1910- 01/01/1990
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David and Goliath

David and Goliath
4.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 22/01/1960
  • Character: Huro
Orson Welles stars in this familiar Old Testament tale about the Philistines and the Israelites. When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David is victorious and becomes the King of Israel.

The Affairs of Messalina

The Affairs of Messalina
5.6/10
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

I Am Semiramis

I Am Semiramis
5.4/10
Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon. She falls in love with Kir, a fallen prince turned into a slave who corresponds to her love. But a palace conspiracy will make the two lovers separate and confront each other.

Old Guard

Old Guard
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/01/1934
  • Character: Uno squadrista
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.

Hercules and the Masked Rider

Hercules and the Masked Rider
4.3/10
In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the war in Flanders. Don Juan dons a mask and joins with a gypsy band led by Estella to fight against the forces of Don Ramiro.

The Ten Gladiators

The Ten Gladiators
4.4/10
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.

The Mighty Crusaders

The Mighty Crusaders
5.2/10
The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.

The Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/11/1952
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

The Terror of the Steppes

The Terror of the Steppes
4.5/10

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
5.3/10
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

Desert Raiders

Desert Raiders
4.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1964
  • Character: Omar
A hero saves a beautiful young princess from a forced marriage to an evil villain.

Il prezzo della gloria

Il prezzo della gloria
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/11/1956
  • Character: Bruschi
The story of a group of sailors during the war.

Il conte Ugolino

Il conte Ugolino
6.8/10

Brute Force

Brute Force
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/01/1941
  • Character: Gaetano

Voto di marinaio

Voto di marinaio
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/03/1953

Rita da Cascia

Rita da Cascia
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 31/05/1943
  • Character: Paolo di Ferdinando
Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.

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