Raffaello Matarazzo
Largely misunderstood, at best considered a little master of an Italian cinema in full revival after the war thanks to neo-realism, Raffaello Matarazzo is nevertheless the author of some sumptuous melodramas whose success was spectacular in post-fascist Italy. Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With Catene, produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were Neorealismo d'appendice. Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine Positif loved his erotic-historical peplum The Ship of Lost Women.
Empezó en boda
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Empezó en boda
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Empezó en boda
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Cerasella
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The White Angel
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The White Angel
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The White Angel
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Nobody's Children
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Nobody's Children
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Torna!
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Good night… lawyer!
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Tourist Train
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Tourist Train
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Tourist Train
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The Ship of Condemned Women
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Chains
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Tormento
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Tormento
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Torna!
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The Intruder
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I terribili sette
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Giorno di nozze
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He Who Is Without Sin...
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Rice Girl
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Malinconico autunno
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Littoria
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Fumeria d’oppio
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Daddy's Little Devil
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La Voce Lontana
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L'imprevisto
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L'imprevisto
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Paolo e Francesca
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Vortice
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Vortice
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Paolo e Francesca
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Trappola d'amore
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Trappola d'amore
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I Was to Blame
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The Adventuress from the Floor Above
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Mussolinia di Sardegna
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Sabaudia
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Two Happy Hearts
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Chains
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Vortice
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The Last Violence
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Adultero lui, adultera lei
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The Last Violence
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The Last Violence
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Lo sciopero dei milioni
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Amore mio
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Amore mio
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Amore mio
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Adultero lui, adultera lei
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Adultero lui, adultera lei
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Cerasella
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Fumeria d’oppio
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I terribili sette
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The Serpent's Fang
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Amore mio
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The Intruder
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I Was to Blame
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Lieutenant Giorgio
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The Hotel of the Absent
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The Slave of Sin
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Joe il Rosso
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The Adventuress from the Floor Above
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The Adventuress from the Floor Above
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The Hotel of the Absent
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L'anonima Roylott
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L'anonima Roylott
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Guai ai vinti
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Guai ai vinti
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The Ship of Condemned Women
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Vortice
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Daddy's Little Devil
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Giù il sipario
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Giù il sipario
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The Serpent's Fang
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Giù il sipario
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Dora la espía
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Dora la espía
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