Hand-Picked Alternatives Movies That Echo the Spirit of La marcia n...

Dir: Carmine Gallone

Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of S.O.S. Schiff in Not perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

While proceeding to the seat of war with his young wife, an Italian officer meets an old lover and once again falls to her charms. The ship is wrecked and the three, unknown at first to each other, are saved. The wife, having witnessed her husband's perfidy, joins an old circus clown and hides her identity. Though discovered by a brother officer, she refuses to make herself known until her husband's life is in danger through the treachery of her rival. Her appearance, as his nurse, is the signal for a happy reconciliation.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Celle qui domine perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An English rich woman travels to Naples seeking distraction. She finds it in her Italian guide, who has such a voice for singing she decides to make him famous, taking him with her to London and offering help for an operatic career.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A boatload of 413 women is shipped to then underpopulated colonial Australia, so they can get busy with the men there to do some propagating.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Farewell to Love perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and once born the child abandons her.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with his business decides to confess his dishonesty and go away.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Bride 68 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Thea is sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organizes a final party, inviting along her estranged husband.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.