Franca Tamantini

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up...

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their...

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points...

Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante...

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

People who take part in a telephone radio quiz get a golden fish as first prize and a silver bikini as second one.

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.

A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.

An art professor falls for one of his pupils who is helping him with a sculpture.

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong...

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa...

1949 movie version of the Rossini opera

A doctor saves a woman who was planning to commit suicide and takes her with him during his night shift.

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the...

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.

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...

In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she...

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They...