Claudio Ermelli

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor...

When young Adriana gives birth to her daughter, she understands that her baby's father won't come back to her; he is, in fact, a playboy, Diego....

An adaptation of Molière's play.

When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster,...

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

Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in...

Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them...

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to...

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst...

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

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

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...

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

A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema...

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.

In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young...

Venice Film Festival 1940

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his...

A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words...

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

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

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

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man...

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier...

A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.

The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their...

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries...

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

The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer,...

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

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that...

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

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

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and...

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who...

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

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

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

The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film

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