Claudio Ermelli

Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable), un estirado abogado de Filadelfia, tiene que viajar a Italia para hacerse cargo de la herencia de su hermano. Nada más llegar se siente muy molesto por la ruidosa y espontánea vida nocturna de Capri. Pero le espera una sorpresa aún mayor: su difunto hermano le ha dejado una herencia viva: Nando, su hijo de 10 diez años, un niño un tanto rebelde y fumador empedernido. Y por si fuera poco, tiene que afrontar una auténtica batalla por su custodia contra la tía del chico (Sophia Loren), una cantante de club nocturno que sueña con llegar a ser estrella del cine.

An adaptation of Molière's play.

El maestro suplente Impallato descubre a un alumno con unas características excepcionales para la canción lírica y lo explota para obtener fama y riqueza.

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 where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.

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 historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

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

Durante una visita a Roma, Ana, la joven princesa de un pequeño país centroeuropeo que detesta sus obligaciones y desea pasar inadvertida, se escapa de palacio para visitar la ciudad de incógnito. Así conoce a Joe, un periodista americano que busca una exclusiva y finge desconocer su verdadera identidad. La pareja vivirá entonces unas jornadas inolvidables.

Dos jóvenes adolescentes tienen un hijo debido a un descuido.

De Carmine es un gris escribano que trabaja en el ayuntamiento. Sus compañeros se ríen de él, es torpe, el alcalde le trata a la baqueta y además su abrigo es un harapo con un agujero enorme. Con sus ahorros de años decide hacerse un abrigo nuevo que le transforma el carácter, gana popularidad y se atreve a ir a la fiesta de Nochevieja a casa del secretario general y bailar en ella con Caterina, la amante del alcalde. Pero al salir, se lo roban...

Un joven oficial de caballería pide un préstamo a un usurero. Cuando éste descubre que es el amante de su hija, decide robarle, pero la muchacha frustra sus planes. El padre la echa de casa y denuncia los hechos al coronel del regimiento. El oficial se ve forzado a casarse con ella, aunque no la ama...

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 and falls for her.

Raimundo es un joven tímido y miedoso incapaz incluso de llevar a cabo un matrimonio. Lo curioso es que por sus venas corre la sangre del legendario Zorro, su lejano antepasado. Decidido a entrar en un convento, un día sufrirá un golpe en la cabeza que despertará en él la fuerza y la virtud propia de su dinastía.

El propietario y gerente de unos grandes almacenes vive obsesionado con una pesadilla que tiene cada noche, y en la que aparece un protagonista que no conoce: un jovencito que le hace la vida imposible. Un día, esta persona aparecerá por el comercio en carne y hueso, ante el espanto del dueño. Su psiquiatra, el doctor Fugoni, le recomendará su inmediata contratación, para que puedan acabarse sus pesadillas al convivir con el personaje real.

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 make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...

Un hombre, que es buscado por un crimen pasional, abandona su escondite a bordo de un barco para buscar ayuda médica en Génova. (FILMAFFINITY)

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 who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone around him the Countess of Sanseverine (Maria Casares) is but one of the may women who love him. In turn she incurs jealous retributions from those in high places who desire her. For his crimes Fabrice is thrown in Prison where from Crimes Fabrice is thrown in prison where form his lonely window he falls in love with his jailer s daughter and plans a daring escape she however calls his plan insane and takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again ever if his escape succeeds the Charterhouse of Parma explodes with conflicting desires man s desire form God vs. his desire for romance.

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.

Ernesto es el maestro del pueblo, casado con una esposa dominante. Su pasión es el teatro y ha escrito un drama en verso titulado "El rapto de las Sabinas". Por desgracia solo tiene una admiradora, la criada Rosina. Cuando la compañía teatral del profesor Tromboni llega al pueblo, Ernesto decide dejarles representar su obra, pero de forma anónima. Cuando llega el día el teatro está tristemente vacío. Pero cuando se comienza a saber que el autor es el maestro...

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

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

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, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.

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 relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.

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

En la Roma de 1800, la cantante de ópera Floria Tosca se enamora del pintor Cavaradossi. Cuando el artista es arrestado por ayudar al hermano de Floria, un líder de la resistencia, a escapar del policía Scarpia, Tosca deberá entregarse al agente a cambio de la libertad de su amado.

Venice Film Festival 1940

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

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