Alberto Sordi

A sensitive character study of five young men trapped in a small town on the Adriatic. (imdb)

The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon... (imdb)

This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive", "Civic Sense", "The Earth As Seen From The Moon", "The Girl From Sicily", and "A Night Like Any Other". (All Movie Guide)

In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position and the affections of various women. (imdb)

Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians... (imdb)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. (imdb)

These three retired magistrates want to carry on with their work: judging people is their idée fixe.

Silvio is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement against Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena. He spends three months hidden on Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. (Wikipedia)

A wealthy American woman plays her annual game of cards with an impoverished couple in Rome.

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance. She poses as the lawyer who wrote the will and lets the real lawyer pass for herself. This way she will be able to discover the five men's vices and faults. (imdb)

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son. (imdb)

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue. (TCM.com)

"The New Monsters" -literally translated- is a collection of nine short films of Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, being three of each one...

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time? (imdb)

An Italian fur merchant makes his first trip yo a large fur auction in Sweden, and his expectations contrast with the realities of what he finds.

A police Inspector and his inept sidekick are sent to country village to investigate reported sightings of a flying saucer. The ship has brought a crew of female aliens who get caught up in a carnival while being chased by men. (eofftv.com)

Children on the brink of growing up, roaming the working-class San Giovanni neighborhood south of Rome's Stazioni Termini, experience the small tragedies and triumphs of adult life in Castellani's enjoyable and finely tuned portrait. A contemporary reviewer noted in 1949, "Definitely an authentic tranche de vie--yet lacking in the tiresome moral bind of the naturalists, the dreary political aims of the populists." (National Gallery of Art)

A powerful and mysterious voice from the skies of Naples announces the coming of Doomsday and the characters amongst the citizens react and prepare themselves for the end.

Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character. The movie depicts some episodes of the life of a noble in the Rome of the early 19th century. Loosely based on folklore accounts about the real Onofrio del Grillo (who actually lived in the 18th century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. (karagarga.net)

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her. (imdb)

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. (imdb)

The life of unemployed Otello Celletti gets completely turned around when he gets a job as a traffic policeman.

A newspaper vendor who dreams to be part of the high society, meets a real aristocrat, Il Conte Max, who decides to help him.

Nando is a young italian in the 1950s who loves the american way of life so much that he's willing to do anything to go to the USA.

Agostino seems to be the irreproachable and even obtuse general secretary for the O.I.M.P., the organization for the defense of public morality, but you will find out he has a darker side.

The story of Gastone, a struggling theater actor and dancer of the 1920s who's also a small delinquent known to the police and constantly blames his bad luck on the great war.

Trying to make a career into the Italian medical system, young doctor Guido Tersilli has sometimes to bend the rules of ethics.

The service-station attendant Giuseppe lives in Rome when he receives an invitation from his father to visit him in America. (imdb)

The interesting encounters of roman taxi driver Pietro.

Roberto Razzi is the esteemed host of a tv show in which he exposes fake magicians and faith healers. After an accident during a travel in India, he discovers he's got what seem to be real special powers.

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. (imdb)

Gaetano is an old cabriolet driver who spent his life driving in the streets of Roma with his horse Nestore, for whom the cabriolet work is starting to be too heavy. So Otello, the owner of the cabriolet, decides to sell it to Cinecittà making Gaetano unemployed and forcing him to bring his old friend to a slaughterhouse.

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

Ercole Pappalardo (Totò), married, five sons, lives with only dream to be upgraded from his current position in the post department. Everithing goes wrong, he accidentally spits on the minister's face, he insults him trough a parrot (!), and finally they discover he has no titles to fit his current position. After all this tragicomic events he takes a definitive decision: he will die to communicate from the afterlife the lotto numbers to his wife! Written by 1felco (imdb)

Oscar Pettinari (Carlo Verdone) is a deluded young actor from the suburbs of Rome, who in spite of his sensitive character, lack of toughness and the appearance of a Teddy Bear, dreams of becoming the next Rambo, until a chance encounter with a savvy lawyer (Alberto Sordi) changes everything. ( by Paola Desiderio)

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada... (imdb)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian land surveyor who has lived in Sweden for the past seven years, goes to his native country with his Swedish wife and children for his holidays. At the border he is however jailed for no apparent reason. He thus begins a nightmarish kafkian experience while he's moved from one prison to another, subject to any humiliation and violence. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)

In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen.

Paolo Villaggio introduces himself as the "Italian Superman", a well-endowed attraction at an erotic bar who struggles to keep his job a secret from his wife. "The Swedish Horse" stars Nino Manfredi as a strict patriarch who is tempted into infidelity by a nubile houseguest. Finally, Alberto Sordi and Stefania Sandrelli get stuck in "The Elevator" for a whole afternoon and this experience changes both of them. (quartetrecords)

Two pensioners, one an ex-womaniser who has spent his fortune on the high life and the other an uptight character decide to go on holiday together with comic results. (ftvdb.bfi)

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 awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble. (imdb)

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles. (imdb)

After the 8th September 1943 (when the Fascist Government was deposed), an Italian officer, Pietro Innocenzi, gives up his uniform and makes his way from the North to his home in Naples. Here he is drawn back into combat, this time on the side of the partesans who liberate the city. (bfi)

Three comedy episodes. UNA GIORNATA DECISIVA - A company executive tries to seduce an old flame unsuccessfully. IL COMPLESSO DELLA SCHIAVA NUBIANA - Ambitious politician tries to suppress his wife's past. GUGLIELMO IL DENTONE - Ambitions of an aspiring TV announcer. (bfi)

Mr. Nardi, who has expensive tastes and not a good nose for business, is constantly asking his rich wife Elvira for large sums of money! One day, sick and tired of this habit of his, she refuses to help! Driven crazy by his creditors, while he rejoices at the news of his wife's train crushed into the lake... she arrives home by car! Determined to kill her at all costs, as the only way out of his financial miseries.. (movie-time)

Doctor Guido Tersilli, previously involved in a series of shady deals, becomes head of Villa Celeste, a luxurious clinic owned by his father-in-law. Driven by an excessive desire to make money, he provokes a revolt by his colleagues in the clinic. (wordlcat)

Over a period of several decades, a man must adapt to the various power structures in Italy. Whether it be the monarchy, the socialists, the fascists or the Church, he manages not only to acclimate himself to the prevailing winds, but also turn a neat financial profit in the bargain. (worldcat)

A comedy about an arms merchant that sells to both despots and the revolutionaries who oppose them. (worldcat)

Magistrate (Judge) Del Russo presides over four cases brough before him during a period of one day. "Adultery in 16mm" focus on Elena who brings her salesman husband to court on charges of abandonment where he springs surprise evidence involving her affair with her lawyer. In "The Priest and the Prostitute," Don Michele, a young priest, is charged with wrecking a pool room who claims he was robbed by Anna, a prostitute, and beaten by her pimp. (imdb)

A school teacher finds himself entrusted with the care of a student with a beautiful voice. (bfi)

A couple used to a very high standard of living and suddenly faced with imminent ruin, prefers to avoid ruin by selling one of the husband's eyes to a richman who has lost one in an accident. (bfi)

Short. An ageing woman and her final fling and safe return. (bfi)

Nothing is going right in the life of a man with a dismal marriage and financial problems, so he changes jobs and tells every woman he meets that he is single. (worldcat)

During World War II, American USO tours gave new life to Italy's native music-hall performers, as it gave them a livelier venue for entertaining both the local population and the incoming soldiers. This Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti, tells the story of two such performers, their ambitions and their struggles. (allmovie)

Gardenio, an old and unlucky artist, organizes little tours in small towns. By chance he discovers Caterina's vocal talent, hires her, and shortly after marries her. She turns into a true star but Gardenio, feeling useless, decides to seek success on his own. Finally his talent is understood, but when he finds out that Caterina had secretly financed the show... he thanks her publicly and the two return together! (movie-time)

Murder mystery about three couples who are involved in the murder of a wealthy woman.

A timid but rich Italian emigrant living in Australia tempts a Roman prostitute, dissatisfied with her night life, over to Australia by sending her a photo of a handsome ex-buddy. When the girl finally arrives she insists on having no other partner than the person on the photo. (bfi)

Drama about an innocent housewife falsely convicted of theft. Sent to a women's prison in Rome, she is trying to survive and learn to cope in the company of murderers, thieves and prostitutes. (worldcat)

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show. (imdb)

On a trip to America, a wealthy male chauvinist discovers the wonders of a trained household robot named Catherine who outperforms any of the disgruntled women back at home in Italy. (worldcat)

Comedy narrating the adventures of a group of Police officers. (bfi)

Romantic adventures of a handsome Venetian gondolier. (bfi)

Film in three episodes on the subject of macabre humour. (bfi)

Episode film., satirising aspects of life in Italy. (bfi)

Comedy: a lawyer is at grips with his contesting son. In the end, he is a conte stator himself, and sends his son to work in his place, giving himself up to a l ife of "dolce far niente".

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome. (imdb)

The story of two cousins: one unattractive, desperately searching for the man of her dreams, and the other beautiful, but totally uninterested in sentimental affairs. However, it is the second who finds the right man, while the former is left searching. (bfi)

Four episodes satirising the relationship of man and wife. (bfi)

The story of a farmer that succeeded to contest the king Alboino in front of all his Royal court, in the Verona (Italy) of the 12th century, using just his cunning. He will risk several times his own life, but the king won't win any dispute at all. (imdb)

The stories of three different couples: 1- Il Frigorifero. [Monica Vitti, Enzo Jannacci] 2- La Camera. [Alberto Sordi, Rossana di Lorenzo] 3- Il Leone [Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti] (bfi)

Three episode film about the problems which face wives with their husbands. (bfi)

Story of a quack doctor who falls in love with one of his "patients". (imdb)

A man who believes himself to be a liberal and understanding husband discovers tha he can't cope when his wife says she is attracted to another man. (bfi)

A burlesque of Moliere's "Le Malade Imaginaire". (bfi)

The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society? (imdb)

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish. (imdb)

Sequel to il TASSINARO. A Roman taxi driver decides to take a holiday in America in order to stay with his son. However, he is forced to stay in America much longer than he anticipated when he witnesses a mob killing. Becoming a target himself, he goes undercover as a taxi driver. (bfi)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. (imdb)

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn't still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner. (imdb)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer. (imdb)

The painter Antonio Berti is called to Reims by his friend Robert Maurisson to restore the paintings of the cathedral. Robert loves young girls, and he kills one of them. Antonio happens to be at scene of the crime, and his friendship with Robert will be put to the test.

Story of three girl's hitchhiking experiences on a trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome. Each finds romance at one of the stops. (bfi)

The film, divided into four episodes, is satirical the topic of sex in Italy.. (wikipedia)

An investigation into the death of a man killed by a pimp leads to unforeseen complications for a man bent on justice. (bfi)

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives. (imdb)

Dante Fontana is an antique dealer of Perugia, and is infatuated with British culture. But he is always thwarted by his wife and relatives, who see him as a silly dreamer who gets lost in stories rather than doing serious work. But Dante does not lose hope, and plans a vacation to London to learn more about the habits of the British. (Wikipedia)

In this 1954 comedy, siren Sophia Loren plays two roles: Cleopatra and the slave girl who doubles for her. Every night, the Egyptian queen beds the soldier who guards her door, but the price he pays is his life. So, when a Roman soldier (played by Italian comedy king Alberto Sordi) is placed on Cleopatra's detail but becomes smitten with her look-alike slave instead, romantic complications put a wrinkle on this strange tradition. (netflix)

Even if Giovanni Episcopo accuses himself of the murder of Giulio Wanzer, his real crime has in fact always been to be too good for his own good (imdb)

Unemployed Vincenzo lives on his mother's small pension, his neighbor Bartoloni suffers under the rule of his despotic wife. One night Bartoloni suggests to Vincenzo he could murder Mrs Bartoloni for 30 million lire, but things don't go as planned...

Mid-Century Loves (Italian: Amori di mezzo secolo) is a 1954 Italian anthology historical melodrama film consisting of five segments directed by Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari, Roberto Rossellini and Antonio Pietrangeli. (wikipedia.org)

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.

Several stories intertwine in St Moritz at Christmas.

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda. (imdb)

Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost eighty years, accidentally meets Federica, a handsome young nurse. (imdb)

Fabio Bonetti has been married to Livia for almost 20 years. One day a private eye investigating on their neighbors, the Vitali family, by mistake starts filming and recording Livia's life. (imdb)

Background Information: Padre Salvatore Gabriele Anastasio (Anastasia) arrived at Santa Lucia Church in an Italian-American section of the North Bronx in 1951. (imdb)

1859: Capotosta, an Italian thug, is being chased by the cops. When some fellas kidnap a young girl, they pretend to be part of his gang.

Following the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena. There, he spends his last days surrounded by few of his friends and allies.

A couple, owners of a pension, are concerned with finding a convenient party for their three daughters. The girls, however, have already set their sights on three attractive guests. (imdb)

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and his wife meet his new chief.

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised. (imdb)

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law. (imdb)

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince. (imdb)

Anselmo Pandolfini kidnaps a famous American diva to reunite her with her lover John, organizing a party based on spaghetti and Italian wines. (imdb)

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. (imdb)

Mockumentary about the life and career of the actress Monica Vitti.

Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race. (imdb)