Enrico Guazzoni

Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total pleasure in exchange for the life of his fiancée Margaret. Faust accepts but is soon forced to realise the impossibility of crossing the boundaries of knowledge and the limits imposed by God.

Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.

In "Agrippina" (1910), Guazzoni recreates the particular and troublesome relationship between Agrippina, the second wife of the Emperor Claudius, and her son Nero.

In ancient Rome, tyrannical Emperor Caligula is assassinated through the machinations of Messalina. She then makes a conquest of Marcus, who forces the Senate to name her husband, Claudius, as emperor. Messalina's wicked ways continue when she falls in love with Ennio, a slave. Ennio is also loved by Egyptian princess Mirit, but he loves neither of them, preferring the company of Ela, a Greek slave.

Antamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special effects, was released in 1916. Telling the story of the Life of Christ, the film is divided into three segments-- three Mysteries. The first of these includes the Birth of Jesus, the arrival of the Magi, Herod and the slaughter of the innocents, the flight into Egypt. The second Mystery features the expulsion of the merchants from the Temple, Mary Magdalene's conversion and Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The third Mystery is itself divided into three separate parts, which are The Passion, The Death and The Resurrection.

A rich Sicilian farmer has to move from Sicily to Rome to help his grandson, University student, who has been put in jail.

Miryam, the adopted daughter of the tribal chief Jamet, meets Marco Palmi, an Italian scientist in Libya for research, in the desert. Their first approach is not cordial and when Mario falls prisoner to the marauders she offers to guard him so she can humiliate him. However, over time she falls in love with the young Italian and becomes pregnant by him. Ibrahim, a bandit who desires the girl, arranges for Mario to be abandoned in the desert and tells Miryam that he died trying to escape. But Mario was saved by another tribe and is cared for by Ulema, a friend of Miryam. Ibrahim tries to harm the two lovers again, but Jamet intervenes and kills the bandit, submits to Italian power and allows the couple to leave for Italy together with their recently born son, called Italo.