Up Next in Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas
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Chains
Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo • 1949 • Italy
After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation. There's a touch of noir in CHAINS, in which the saintly yet ...
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Tormento
Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo • 1950 • Italy
Anna (Yvonne Sanson) flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father's mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover (Amedeo Nazzari), an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he...
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He Who Is Without Sin . . .
Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo • 1952 • Italy
In this melodrama by Raffaello Matarazzo, a young woman is mistakenly imprisoned for her sister's crime of abandoning her own child. When her husband finds out while working abroad, he decides to nullify their marriage.
