Marco Scarpelli

Film compuesto por tres episodios independientes, que tienen en común la descripción de las vicisitudes de la vida conyugal en tono de comedia disparatada. En "El marido de Roberta" ella quisiera ser hombre; en "El marido de Olga" ella debe tener un hijo si quiere heredar una gran fortuna; y en "El marido de Attila" se aborda un caso de celos.

An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.

In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years.

Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.

Roma, 1585. El jefe de una banda de mercenarios españoles se enamora de una hermosa princesa. Las cosas se complican cuando un líder encarcelado es liberado y marcha contra ellos.

Events and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Livio Berruti, the first white to win the 200 meters, to the deeds of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who won the marathon racing barefoot.

After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.

Arabella ha organizado un grupo de chicas que se dedican a la prostitución, incluida la hija de un general, Todo va viento en popa hasta el día que un cliente muere de un infarto y hacen desaparecer el cadáver...

En el siglo I, el Emperador Calígula ha sido asesinado y Claudio es proclamado César. Un noble conspirador pide que Claudia se case con la joven Messalina, esperando manejarla como una marioneta y controlar el trono. Sin embargo Messalina tiene los proyectos para ella misma y mata al noble en cuanto está casada. Mientras, un joven comandante militar llamado Lucius Maximus encuentra a Messalina en los jardines y se enamora de ella, pero ella usa un nombre falso y él no llega a averiguar su identidad. Messalina lo envía a la guerra en Armenia.

Un pobre infeliz se incorpora a trabajar en un hotel regentado por su tio, pero desconoce que este, es un milenario vampiro.

El dueño de un negocio intenta eludir los impuestos de hacienda, pero un recaudador del gobierno está al acecho.

A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.

Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch, with Father Mariano, Cesare Zavattini, the shoemaker Angelo Gatto, the baroness Aurelia Michetti and the General Lorenzo De Grandi.

Unos científicos estadounidenses descubren que en la sangre de un botones italiano se encuentra una sustancia llamada "glumonio" que le convierte en el candidato perfecto para pilotar la primera misión humana con destino a la Luna.

En un pueblo del interior, donde la tierra es pobre y casi nadie tiene trabajo, un parado concibe la idea de construir una carretera que una el pueblo con la ciudad. Se pone a trabajar él solo, con su familia, sin permisos ni haber hablado con nadie. Pronto, el resto del pueblo se les unirá. No tardarán en llegar los conflictos, los problemas, pero también los amores y otras buenas noticias...

A duras penas la tripulación de un pesquero consigue llegar hasta un puerto. La dañada embarcación sólo sirve para el desguace, pero los trámites de la venta tardarán unos días y Silvano, uno de los marineros, se queda allí para ultimarlos. Pronto conoce a Lucía, una huérfana que se gana la vida ayudando al manco Rafael en ciertos trapicheos ilegales.

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel.

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 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and courage are depicted. The test of courage, for males, on one island , is a leap from a high wooden tower to the ground with a thin vine wrapped around their ankle breaking the fall at the last minute. The first bungee-jumpers?

In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

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.

Mara, una mujer de vida fácil, salva a una chica polaca de un accidente de tren donde sus padres mueren. A ella le gustaría adoptarla, y tendría éxito, si un antiguo proxeneta no volviera a su vida...

Comedia dramática que se compone de cuatro historias: los casos que le llegan en un mismo día al juez Salomone Lorusso.

While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.

La cajera de un café de Nápoles consigue probar con la compañía de avanspettacolo que para en su café. De la noche a la mañana, se convierte en una famosa cantante...

Uno de los más famosos almirantes de la flota del rey es culpado de alta traición y ejecutado. Su hijo, capitán de la armada, seguro de que su padre no fue un traidor, emprende una lucha a muerte contra los enemigos ocultos que han manchado el honor de su familia.

Diversos números musicales inspirados por varias canciones.

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Diversos sketches sobre personajes relacionados con la música, siguiendo canciones de la época.

A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of war camp. He finds that the local landowner has stolen his sheep and his girlfriend. When he also assaults and murders his sister, the shepherd takes revenge.

Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.

Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.

Un hombre descubre que su hija, la cual creía muerta en la guerra, está unida a una organización criminal.