Movies by Enzo Cannavale

My Father's Private Secretary

My Father's Private Secretary

Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.

Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

The Paramedic

The Paramedic

At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes

My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

Non ti pago

Non ti pago

Man spricht deutsh

Man spricht deutsh

A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italian people.

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer

Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio.

That Movement Which I Love So Much

That Movement Which I Love So Much

Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.

Camorra

Camorra

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".

Peppino Girella

Peppino Girella

A Man Called Magnum

A Man Called Magnum

A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.

La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola

La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola

Christmas at the Cupiello House

Christmas at the Cupiello House

Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncle; the daughter Ninuccia does not get along with her husband Nicolino and plans to run away with her lover Vittorio; the wife tries to hide her family's troubles from her husband. Luca, who silently suffers the family situation, takes refuge in setting up the Nativity scene.

Bene mio e core mio

Bene mio e core mio

Condannato a nozze

Condannato a nozze

A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one night he splits into two different versions of himself, a soon-to-be-married one and a confirmed bachelor one.

The Landlords

The Landlords

Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.

Chaste and Pure

Chaste and Pure

Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.

Sweetheart

Sweetheart

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

Tre Calzoni Fortunati

Tre Calzoni Fortunati

Don Felice Sciosciammocca, a poor and simple man, goes to the day, hoping that sooner or later will come the right opportunity to change his life. A nice day at Don Felice comes a parcel from a dear cousin, which contains three pairs of old trousers. Apparently only common value objects, but they will create great surprises.

The Week at the Beach

The Week at the Beach

On holiday with his son, a father discover he is not so timid.