The young waitress is the object of unwanted attention first of the son, then of the father of the bourgeois family at which she is in service. Eventually she is thrown out by the mistress of the hous...
Anastasio receives a letter from his girlfriend Cunegonde, who is arriving the next day: if he has no money, she will never be his wife. Anastasio is desperate and decides to commit suicide. But the b...
A young army officer goes to visit her sister in the countryside. Perhaps due to the idleness of the country life, he begins to woo the governess of her sister’s daughter. Flattered, the girl soon f...
Arabace, the high priest, loves a patrician woman named Jone, who instead is in love with Glauco, a young Roman. Glauco hosts in his house a poor blind girl called Nidia who is secretly infatuated wit...
Socrate, a weird parrot, one day flies away through an open window. The mistress of the parrot imposes on her boyfriend Ajax a terrible condition: if he doesn’t find Socrate, she will not marry him....
Polidor reads on the newspaper about an exclusive club where the members randomly select the one among them who will have to commit suicide. At night Polidor dreams to go to the Death Club. Suddenly o...
An old lady of high society, Alba d'Oltrevita (Lyda Borelli) enters into a pact with Mephistopheles (Ugo Bazzini), to regain his youth in exchange for which, however, she is forbidden to fall in love....
The film, a greatly suggestive documentary on landscapes, owes some of its happiest moments to the phantom ride technique, which makes use of the momentum of shots taken with the camera mounted on mov...