The best Umberto Spadaro’s drama movies

Umberto Spadaro

Umberto Spadaro

08/11/1904- 12/10/1981
Today we present the best Umberto Spadaro’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 Umberto Spadaro’s movies.
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Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves
8.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/11/1948
  • Character: (uncredited)
A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.

Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1964
  • Character: il cugino di Ascalone
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, and is very similar to Divorce, Italian Style.

Malacarne

Malacarne
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/12/1946
  • Character: il gobbo
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The Best Part

The Best Part
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1955
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...

Hell in the City

Hell in the City
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1959
  • Character: Direttore del carcere
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Lebbra bianca

Lebbra bianca
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/02/1951
  • Character: Commissario capo

Outlaw Girl

Outlaw Girl
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/12/1950
  • Character: Doctor Micheli
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.

Canzone appassionata

Canzone appassionata
6/10

In the Name of the Law

In the Name of the Law
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/03/1949
  • Character: L'avvocato Faraglia
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Difficult Years

Difficult Years
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/09/1948
  • Character: Aldo Piscitello
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.

Serenata amara

Serenata amara

Manos sucias

Manos sucias
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/06/1957
  • Character: Valero
Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but is haunted by what he did to obtain it.

The Wide Blue Road

The Wide Blue Road
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1957
  • Character: Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…

A Husband for Anna

A Husband for Anna
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/08/1953
  • Character: Don Antonio Percucoco
Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

The Iron Swordsman

The Iron Swordsman
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1952

The Big Family

The Big Family
7.1/10
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.

The Outlaws

The Outlaws
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/06/1950

Non vogliamo morire

Non vogliamo morire
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/03/1954
  • Character: Capitano del battello

Tombolo, paradiso nero

Tombolo, paradiso nero
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/10/1947

Le ore nude

Le ore nude
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/08/1964
  • Character: Nonno
In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him.

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