Claudio Ermelli

2차대전 참전 경력이 있는 미국인 해밀턴은 동생의 사망 후 부동산 정리를 위해 나폴리를 다시 방문하였다. 기차에서 내리자마자 만난 변호사는 10년 전 동생이 이곳에서 결혼을 해서 8살 난 ‘페르난도’란 아이가 있다고 한다. ‘해밀턴’은 미국에도 아내가 있는 동생이 이곳에서 자신이 알고 있는 동생과는 사뭇 다르게 생활하였다는 것에 의구심을 갖고 동생의 처형인 ‘쿠르치오’를 만나러 휴양지인 카프리섬으로 간다. 그곳에서 가난에 찌든 삶을 사는 처형 ‘루치오’와 거리의 아이 같은 조카 ‘난도’를 보고는 생활비를 부쳐주겠노라고 약속을 하고 섬을 떠나려 한다. 하지만, 시간이 늦어 배가 끊겨 할 수없이 카프리섬에 묵게 되는데...

An adaptation of Molière's play.

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

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.

앤 공주는 왕실의 제약과 정해진 스케줄에 싫증이 나 로마를 여행하던 중 왕실을 몰래 빠져 나간다. 그녀는 한 신사의 도움으로 서민의 생활을 즐기게 되지만, 그 신사는 특종을 찾아다니는 신문 기자였고 특종을 잡기 위해 앤 공주와 로마의 거리를 다니며 여러가지 해프닝을 겪는다. 이 사실을 모르는 앤 공주는 친절한 그에게 정이 들기 시작하고, 단지 특종만을 위해서 그녀와 함께 했던 기자 조 역시 순수한 앤 공주에게 끌리기 시작한다. 드디어 앤은 궁전으로 다시 돌아가고 조가 신문 기자였던 것을 알게 된 앤은 그에게 실망한다. 그러나 조는 앤 공주의 사진을 기사로 쓰지 않고 그녀에게 선물이라며 전해주는데...

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

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 overcoat.

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

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.

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

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 over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.

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...

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

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 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 verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...

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.

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

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.