Paolo Stoppa Movies

One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds...

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria...

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...

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...

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes...

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he...

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change...

In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.

Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits...

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his...

The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.

Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger...

In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in...

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the...

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

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career...

Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears.