Up Next in Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas

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  Introducing Raffaello Matarazzo

  Introducing Raffaello Matarazzo

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  Chains

  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

  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...