Franco Sportelli

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 ...

Il Giardino dei Ciliegi (1968)

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967)

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades. ...

After the Fox (1966)

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

Toto and Cleopatra (1963)

Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments. ...

The Shortest Day (1963)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...

The Four Days of Naples (1962)

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the inv ...

Scorched Skin (1962)

The love affair between Andrea, laborer from the italian northern area called Bassa Lombarda and apulian single mother, Rosaria, is grafted on the background of the inconveniences of poor commuters who must go to work in Milan by train. ...

His Days Are Numbered (1962)

A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work. ...

Mariti in pericolo (1960)

Two men, business partners, fall in love with the same girl. Their wives react accordingly, but one seems to take it more calmly. This makes her husband suspicious, and he begins to believe that she is also having an affair, with his business partner. An i ...

Little Girls and High Finance (1960)

A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country. ...

You, Your Mother, and Me (1958)

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well. ...

We will get married in Capri (1956)

Aces to the fore (1954)

The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Ital ...

Poverty and Nobility (1954)

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook. ...

Ours are coming (1951)

A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right. ...