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4.8

♡ 8

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Jack Hawkins as Marshal Millefleurs

Eli Wallach as Napoleon Bonaparte

Paolo Stoppa as Santarem, Count of Morales

Claudia Cardinale as Teresa, Countess of Morales

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

Stazione Termini

1953

6.2

♡ 5

43%

Paolo Stoppa as Annoying man with oranges

Montgomery Clift as Giovanni Doria

Jennifer Jones as Mary Forbes

Richard Beymer as Paul Stevens

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?

The Libertine

1968

5.4

♡ 8

Pasquale Festa Campanile Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Dr. Carlo De Marchi

Vittorio Caprioli as Il libraio

Catherine Spaak as Margherita aka Mimi

Paolo Stoppa as Professor Zauri

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

La menace

1961

French

5.9

♡ 4

Drama

Gérard Oury Director

Paolo Stoppa as Cousin

Elsa Martinelli as Lucile

Philippe Forquet as Patrick

Robert Hossein as Savary

Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.

Rugantino

1973

5.8

♡ 4

Comedy

Romance

Pasquale Festa Campanile Director

Rolando De Santis as Giocatore di Carte

Riccardo Garrone as Il Principe

Paolo Stoppa as Mastro Titta

Adriano Celentano as Rugantino

A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.

Mi tío Jacinto

1956

Spanish

7.3

♡ 3

uncle nephew relationship

childhood

Drama

matador (bullfighter)

poor man

poverty

Ladislao Vajda Director

Walter Chiari as Caballero elegante

Carlo Campanini as Caballero provinciano

Pedro Porcel as Cliente 1º

Paolo Stoppa as Restaurador

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon.

Beauties of the Night

1952

French

6.8

♡ 3

100%

René Clair Director

Martine Carol as Edmée 1900 / Edmée de Villebois

Paolo Stoppa as Le directeur de l'Opéra

Paul Faivre as L'huissier à l'Opéra

Philippe Richard as Un homme

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

Garibaldi

1961

6.3

♡ 1

Drama

History

Roberto Rossellini Director

Tina Louise as French Journalist

Marco Mariani as Major Sforza

Leonardo Botta as Menotti Garibaldi

Paolo Stoppa as Nino Bixio

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.

Il sole negli occhi

7.1

Antonio Pietrangeli Director

Irene Galter as Celestina

Paolo Stoppa as Egisto Palmucci

Vittorio Duse as Evasio, butler

Aristide Baghetti as Professor Nicotera

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 her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

Behold a Pale Horse

1964

spanish civil war (1936-39)

6.7

♡ 5

90%

War

Fred Zinnemann Director

Jean-Claude Bercq as

Gregory Peck as Manuel Artiguez

Paolo Stoppa as Pedro

Rosalie Crutchley as Teresa, Wife of Vinolas

Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.

Los jueves, milagro

1957

Spanish

7.2

♡ 1

Comedy

Fantasy

Luis García Berlanga Director

Félix Fernández as Don Evaristo

José Luis López Vázquez as Don Fidel

Paolo Stoppa as Don Salvador

Richard Basehart as Martino

In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.

Miracle in Milan

1951

7.6

♡ 2

92%

89%

angel

based on novel or book

Arturo Bragaglia as Alfredo

Emma Gramatica as La vecchia Lolotta

Guglielmo Barnabò as Mobbi

Paolo Stoppa as Rappi

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

Becket

1964

7.7

♡ 15

75%

87%

archbishop

based on play or musical

Peter Glenville Director

Peter Jeffrey as Baron

Royston Tickner as Royal Servant

Paolo Stoppa as the Pope / Pope Alexander III

Patrick Newell as William of Corbeil

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.

After the Fox

1966

6.4

♡ 8

78%

Carlo Pisacane as 2nd Judge

Britt Ekland as Gina Romantica

Martin Balsam as Harry Granoff

Paolo Stoppa as Polio

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

Beauty and the Devil

1950

French

7.3

♡ 1

René Clair Director

Tullio Carminati as Le Diplomate

Carlo Ninchi as Le Prince

Michel Simon as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

Paolo Stoppa as Official

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

parent child relationship

8.2

♡ 28

91%

Luchino Visconti Director

Paolo Stoppa as Cerri

Claudia Cardinale as Ginetta

Annie Girardot as Nadia

Alain Delon as Rocco Parondi

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Boccaccio '70

1962

7.0

♡ 8

50%

Valentino Macchi as Friend of Man Winning a Bottle

Paolo Stoppa as Lawyer Alcamo

Silvio Bagolini as Secretary of Monsignore

Sophia Loren as Zoe

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

The Leopard

1963

7.9

♡ 39

98%

Luchino Visconti Director

Terence Hill as Count Cavriaghi

Paolo Stoppa as Don Calogero Sedara

Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

Alain Delon as Tancredi Falconeri

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Amici miei - Atto II°

1982