Paolo Stoppa

Sergio Leone's monumental epic is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast, as tough and bawdy as every kid imagines the Old West.

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

Following death of husband, Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) moves to Milan with her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori), Rocco (Alain Delon), Ciro (Max Cartier), and Luca (Rocco Vidolazzi). Already there is Vincenzo (Spiros Focas), preoccupied with his impending nuptials to the beautiful Ginetta (Claudia Cardinale). Movie chronicles the familys' struggle. Much of the second half deals with loutish Simone and Rocco. Complications arise when Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute, enters their lives.

An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's. (imdb)

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes. (imdb)

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron... (imdb)

Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise... (imdb)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. (imdb)

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez. (imdb)

An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge. (imdb)

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller". (imdb)

In this emotional war drama set in Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger (Giovanna Ralli) gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs - an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. By taking them in, she tragically jeopardizes the safety of her Communist lover while the confinement of the trapped prisoners brings their uneasy alliance to a boiling point, symbolizing the chaos of the world around them. (dvdbeaver.com)

Epic tale of Garibaldi's quest for Italian reunification.

Al its Pietrangeli debut tells the history of a campaign girl, that it reaches in city and it crosses the sedotta and abandoned bourgeois high world ending some. But the piglio filmic of Pietrangeli it is already farthest from the neorealismo and all concentrating on the bitter tenderness of the portrait to the feminine one.

Peter McEnery stars as Col. Etienne Girard, Hussar officer of the Napoleonic era. The story takes place during the Little Corporal's 1808 campaign in the Spanish peninsula. Col. Gerard's adventures include an ongoing war of nerves against Napoleon's forces, not to mention a steamy affair with one Countess Teresa Claudia Cardinale.

A powerful and mysterious voice from the skies of Naples announces the coming of Doomsday and the characters amongst the citizens react and prepare themselves for the end.

A bunch of lovable losers go to war.

Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character. The movie depicts some episodes of the life of a noble in the Rome of the early 19th century. Loosely based on folklore accounts about the real Onofrio del Grillo (who actually lived in the 18th century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. (karagarga.net)

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons. (imdb)

The story of Gastone, a struggling theater actor and dancer of the 1920s who's also a small delinquent known to the police and constantly blames his bad luck on the great war.

La Quaglia is the stationmaster of the small town of Piovarolo, a town where trains don't stop and where the station is small and almost useless. The years pass, La Quaglia gets married, a daughter is born and his awaited promotion never arrives. Maybe a dangerous mishap near the station will bring him some luck...or maybe not. ... (amazon)

A patient in a mental hospital reveals his view of society to a psychiatrist. (locatetv)

Three brothers, all played by Toto, vie to inherit a fortune from their natural father. (worldcat)

This farce features Jodi Foster, Catherine Deneuve, and Ugo Tognazzi. Tersina (Foster) is a pregnant teen whose parents want her married, pronto. Cerquette (Tognazzi) is an insurance man who wears a chastity belt to keep him from ravishing the two women he desires. A pair of bachelors liven up the action (Michele Placido and Luigi Proietti) which is not easy. Except for the introductory scenes, all of the action takes place in the dressinig (and undressing) room of a beach house. (allrovi.com)

In back-to-back stories that are unrelated to each other except through a few shared stabs at sexual and social morés, director Nanni Loy and the two featured stars (and co-writers) Renato Pozzetto and Nino Manfredi have fun with some "taboo" themes. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Comedy, thriller. Sasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder mystery when Don Michelle, a building contractor involved in a number of housing scandals hires Iovine to find his daughter who has disappeared with incriminating documents. (bfi)

The plot deals with fascists in charge of finding the antifascist printing houses. (imdb)

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. (imdb)

Story of the daughters of an Italian travelling salesman and their love affairs. (bfi)

The action takes place in Naples at the turn of the century and shows the different methods used by the police and the District Attorney to discover the real authors of a double murder. (bfi)

Adventures of two G.I.s sightseeing in Rome and their pursuit of an attractive school teacher. (bfi)

Pageant of the singing city of Naples from its earliest beginnings to the present day. (bfi)

In order to bring back the tourists to the village, their inhabitants organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas. (Written by Pablo Montoya (imdb)

Domestic comedy about a grandmother's attempts to prevent a young girl from marrying the boy she is in love with. (bfi)

A rich man's attempts to steal away a poor man's wife set the stage for this comic farce, set in Naples in 1860. (AllMovie)

Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant. (Worlds Cinema)

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.

A series of intrigues at the Madrid court of Charles V in the 16th century.

A poor Spanish nobleman fights a duel against a cruel captain to save a boy's life. Since a royal edict forbids duelling during Holy Week, the nobleman is sentenced to death by hanging, but he eventually manages to escape this injustice.

Film adaptation of a three act comedy by Eduardo De Filippo. Ferdinando Quagliuolo takes over the management of a Lotto agency after his father dies. Despite his terrible luck, he still plays obsessively. When one of his employees, Mario Bertolini, gets lucky, he soon becomes fiercely envious, not knowing that Mario has been courting his daughter behind his back all along.

The story of Puccini's early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life.

The Ricordi family's interactions with many of the great composers of the nineteenth century are portrayed. (Wikipedia)

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl. (Letterboxd)

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and trouble...

A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.

A heavily fictionalized account of the life of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).

Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life.

A young man's sensual adventures based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.

Josépha (Marie-José Nat), after years of living under the thumb of a drunkard uncle (Paolo Stoppa), is disaffected. A chance encounter with the new local chemist (Robert Hossein) further upsets her situation. To escape a lonely and aimless existence she reaches out to a self-entitled gang of rebellious youth, but in attempting to prove her worth to them she traps herself in a web of lies.

Mrs. Brambilla yearns for her own daughter, made a young lady, a so-called "good match" and therefore adamantly opposes the girl's love with a good but not rich young man. Following this fixed idea of hers, she induces her husband to go into debt in order to take the girl to a luxurious beach, where, in contact with the big world, she hopes to find a suitable husband for her daughter (wikipedia)

A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.