Paolo Ferrara

Los dinamiteros (1964)

Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old do ...

Letto a tre piazze (1960)

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands. ...

The Third (1958)

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life. ...

Love and Chatter (1958)

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage dest ...

Onore e sangue (1957)

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother. ...

The Awakening (1956)

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. ...

Maruzzella (1956)

Maruzzella is in love with Salvatore, who in turn is infatuated with Donna Carmela, Maruzzella's stepmother. As if that were not enough, Carmela deprives Maruzzella of her inheritance. When Salvatore comes to visit Renato, his old poor and needy schoolmate ...

The Bigamist (1956)

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently. ...

Forbidden (1955)

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war. ...

A Hero of Our Times (1955)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awa ...

Torna! (1954)

Cousins James and Robert are in love with Susanna. When Robert and Susanna announce their engagement, James vows to ruin their happiness. ...

Clothing the Naked (1954)

Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon after seduced by the very consul who drives her away after his daughter loses her life due to Ersilia's dis ...

Of Life and Love (1954)

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight ja ...

Vortice (1953)

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments. ...

The Age of Indiscretion (1953)

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl. ...

Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)

Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant. ...

The Unfaithfuls (1953)

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others. ...

Processo contro ignoti (1952)

Dad Becomes Mom (1952)

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them. ...

La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there. ...

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 ...

Outlaw Girl (1950)

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts do ...

Furia (1947)

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions. ...

The Last Wagon (1943)

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he ...

Tutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore (1943)

Labbra serrate (1942)

Se non son matti non li vogliamo (1941)

Non me lo dire! (1940)

Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire. ...

Imputato, alzatevi! (1939)

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse. ...

L'ultimo scugnizzo (1938)

Il feroce saladino (1937)

Pensaci, Giacomino! (1936)