Paolo Stoppa Movies

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way...

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his...

A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the...

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...

The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son,...

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...

Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight...

Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Signor Ponza, Her...

An Italian comedy from 1943.

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince...

Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.

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

Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of...

Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.