Paolo Stoppa

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

Dir. Sergio Leone · With Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg

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.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon

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 for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Gastone Moschin

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.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Dir. Julien Duvivier · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo

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.

Dir. Peter Glenville · With Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud