Claudio Ermelli

Roman Holiday

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. Whe...

Tosca

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca...

It Started in Naples

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep"...

It's Him!... Yes! Yes!

Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy wome...

The Walls of Malapaga

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Ho ritrovato mio figlio

A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when...

The Dream of Zorro

An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of pr...

Snow White and the Seven Thieves

A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a di...

The Last Days of Pompeii

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to s...

House of Ricordi

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, an...

The Charterhouse of Parma

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Gr...

Bravissimo

The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extra...

The Overcoat

Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk...

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roul...

Down with Misery!

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, whil...

Sambo

A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of cha...

In cerca di felicità

Two young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice...

I'll Give a Million

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide at...

L'allegro fantasma

The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claim...

The Rape of the Sabine

Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the...

Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening prog...

La maestrina

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses peo...

Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!

A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.

100 Little Mothers

Serenate per 16 bionde

A group of schoolgirls find shelter in an old castle during a rainstorm.

Il barone Carlo Mazza

Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a...

Dove sta Zaza?

The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a ma...

Animal Crackers

After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.

La mia canzone al vento

The Age of Indiscretion

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

Giù il sipario

A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own...

Totò nella fossa dei leoni

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriousl...

Nozze vagabonde

Luck Comes from Heaven

The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from b...

Brute Force

Il feroce saladino