Elsa Merlini

I mariti (1974)

Appuntamento a Senlis (1972)

A young man wants to give an idealized image of himself and his family and so he introduces the girl he loves to two old actors who pretend to be his parents. ...

Il berretto a sonagli (1970)

Beatrice discovers the affair between her husband and the young wife of Ciampa, a man advanced in years and secretly resigned to that infidelity whose existence he openly denies. Beatrice, however, does not intend to do the same, on the contrary: she wants ...

La giacca stregata (1969)

Dino, a young failure dependent on his elderly aunt, meets Roberto, a former military comrade who went to war in his place. Roberto gives him the address of a tailor to have a new suit made. Based on the short story of the same name, from the collection "L ...

Arsenico e vecchi merletti (1969)

Il segretario particolare (1968)

Al calar del sipario (1965)

Non si dorme a Kirkwall (1960)

Set on a quiet, windswept Scottish island, the aging and somewhat lazy Pastor Mac Niff requests a curate to help him manage his eccentric parishioners. A young assistant named Newt arrives surprisingly early and begins using hyper-modern, bizarre methods t ...

Giorgio Washington ha dormito qui (1959)

A married couple buys a house in the country and spends a lot of money renovating it. But then the two protagonists find a manuscript by George Washington and become rich again. ...

Legs of Gold (1958)

Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C. ...

Villini a sorpresa (1958)

A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer. ...

L'avaro (1957)

An adaptation of Molière's play. ...

Alla Prova (1957)

I pappagalli (1955)

Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor. ...

It Happens in Roma (1955)

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true l ...

Position Wanted (1951)

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfai ...

Gioco pericoloso (1942)

La regina di Navarra (1942)

L'ultimo ballo (1941)

A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life. ...

Ai vostri ordini, signora... (1939)

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then ...

Amicizia (1938)

After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites with the woman he loved and this time she will confess her love for him. The woman's husband will begin t ...

The Lady in White (1938)

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

30 Seconds of Love (1936)

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance. ...

I Don't Know You Anymore (1936)

After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead. ...

L'albero di Adamo (1936)

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni. ...

Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they ...

Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel (1934)

Melodramma (1934)

Lisetta (1933)

Paprika (1933)

Una notte con te (1932)

Cercasi modella (1932)

The Private Secretary (1931)

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him. ...