The Gold of Naples

Dec 3, 1954

2h 11m

★ 7.3

A sextet of Neapolitan tales - six captivating stories - wry, delightful and dramatic with that special humor and temperament and that enduring zest for life that characterizes these volatile people...

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica

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Cast

Teresa (segment "Teresa")

Silvana Mangano

Sofia (segment Pizza on Credit)

Sophia Loren

Don Ersilio Miccio (segment "Il professore")

Eduardo De Filippo

Don Peppino, the widower (segment Pizza on Credit)

Paolo Stoppa

Don Nicola (segment "Teresa")

Erno Crisa

Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")

Totò

Carolina Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")

Lianella Carell

Rosario, Sofia's husband (segment Pizza on Credit)

Giacomo Furia

Old woman (segment "Il professore")

Tina Pica

Alfredo, Sofia's lover (segment Pizza on a Credit)

Alberto Farnese

Don Peppino's friend (segment Pizza on a Credit)

Tecla Scarano

Don Carmine Savarone (segment "Il guappo")

Pasquale Cennamo

A food truck selling 'O pere e 'o Musso - a mass of cyanotic butcher's waste - has just appeared in the village, and little Tommaso cannot imagine that his fate is in the hands of Vittorio, the man who is cutting the meat before his eyes. But tonight nothing is as it seems, and even participating in a tasty lottery can turn into the worst of catastrophes.

7.5

The Hand of God

Nov 24, 2021

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

6.7

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Sep 8, 1992

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

7.1

Il medico dei pazzi

Oct 19, 1954

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

6.1

Io sono Rosa Ricci

Oct 30, 2025

In 2000s Naples, 15-year-old Rosa Ricci is kidnapped by enemies of her father, one of the city’s most feared Camorra bosses. Held captive on a remote island, she transforms from victim to survivor, ready to fight for her freedom before her father’s war for revenge consumes them both.

6.1

Neapolitan Mouse

Oct 2, 1954

Tom chases Jerry through the streets of Naples; they meet a local mouse who recognizes them from their cartoons and shows them around. Meanwhile, some local dogs are shadowing them.

6.0

The Baby and the Battleship

Jun 1, 1956

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.

5.7

Incantesimo napoletano

Feb 8, 2002

In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!

5.5

Vita, Cuore, Battito

Mar 17, 2016

Enzo and Monica, two engaged thirty-year-olds from the outskirts of Naples, lead a life of routine until Enzo makes a sharp bet at the illegal lottery, thanks to which he wins a trip offered up for grabs by the criminal who runs the game. The journey turns out to be an experience somewhere between comical and traumatic, because Enzo and Monica are like two fish out of water in all the contexts in which they find themselves. Even more traumatic, however, is their return to Naples: their trip was wanted by an American laboratory for an anthropological study, which will transform them, despite themselves, into stars.

5.3

Give Me Your Heart

Sep 17, 1936

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

5.2

Sono solo fantasmi

Nov 14, 2019

Thomas, a struggling former magician, and Carlo, a Neapolitan submissive to his Northern wife and father-in-law, are two half-brothers who reunite after years in Naples following the death of their father, Vittorio, an inveterate gambler and womanizer. They discover they have a third brother, Ugo, who appears a bit dim-witted but is actually a genius. The inheritance Thomas and Carlo covet disappears due to their father's debts, and the three have a brilliant idea: to exploit Neapolitan superstition and credulity by becoming "ghostbusters." Just when their business seems to be unexpectedly successful, the spirit of their father, Vittorio, takes possession of Carlo's body. Thomas and Carlo become convinced that ghosts really do exist. Meanwhile, the ghosts captured by the trio break free and go to awaken the ghost of a witch who threatens to destroy Naples. With their father's help, the three brothers try to save the city.

6.1

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

Sep 30, 2019

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a youth asks him permission to kill his father.

6.6

The Immortal

Dec 5, 2019

After reuniting with his first mentor Bruno and receiving his latest mission, an exiled Ciro is left to fearlessly confront whatever comes his way, navigating a new chapter of gang warfare while grappling with devastating memories of loss and trauma. Weaving between his past as an orphan in Naples' cruel underworld and present as a hardened, cunning assassin with nothing left to lose, Ciro is plunged into the cold, dark depths of a world where immortality is just another form of damnation.

6.4

Napoli milionaria!

Dec 18, 2023

Naples, 1942. To feed her family and respond to her husband Gennaro's inertia, Amalia is forced to enter the black market. To save his wife from prison, the man fakes his own death.

7.7

The Leopard

Mar 27, 1963

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. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

5.4

A Husband for Anna

Aug 22, 1953

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

6.2

The Happy Prince

Apr 12, 2018

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.

6.6

Song'e Napule

Nov 11, 2013

The police send an unemployed classically-trained musician—under the cover of a trashy wedding singer—to infiltrate the entourage of an elusive Mafia boss.

5.8

Malefemmene

Nov 30, 2001

A young woman is wrongly jailed. In prison she finds a completely different world made of women who seem to have found the formula for freedom.

6.3

Three Cornered Hat

Feb 1, 1935

A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.