Carlo Delle Piane

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board are a family of Albanian refugees, a professor who daydreams conversations with a lost love, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband, accompanied by a community service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness. (IMDB)

An extreme version of "Alice in Wonderland" by Roman Polanski.

A bizarre but heavy-handed giallo spoof which features a plethora of eccentric characters: inept detective, diminutive hero, a cross-eyed psycho and a dwarf (actually a man in drag!) for servants - plus a mad combo of relatives including a matriarch suffering from dementia, her cowboy of a second husband, her sex-crazed retarded son who has to be frequently restrained via electro-shock therapy, another son who's also a 'little man' (played by Bob Tonelli, one of the film's own financiers!), etc. (imdb Comment)

A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending. (Yahoo!)

Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it. (imdb)

The 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spends a summer with his father on Count Pallavicini's estate preparing for an important examination at the Bologna Philharmonic Academy. However, in between his studies he falls in with the local boys of his own age, and also feels the first stirrings of love for Antonia, a girl from a nearby villa. Tasting for the first time the life of a normal 14-year-old, Mozart decides to fail the examination...

The relationships between five men who play cards far into the night on Christmas Eve are the focus of this psychological drama by Pupi Avati. Four of the players are out to skin the fifth, industrial tycoon Santelia (Carlo Delle Piane), but the four are not exactly a united front. Theater-owner Franco (Diego Abatantuono) is nearly bankrupt and harbors a deep and well-founded resentment against Ugo (Gianni Cavina), a wacko television host... (allmovie.com)

17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players meet for a new challenge. Who can trust who? (imdb)

Fabrizi plays Bottoni, a detective who has been given three months to bring Esposito to justice. Deciding to bore from within, Bottoni ingratiates himself with Esposito's warm-hearted family. He finally meets his prey at a colorful family get-together. The men discover that they're kindred spirits. But this does not dissuade Bottoni's determination that the law must take its course. (allmovie.com)

After getting a woman (the Virtue) pregnant, a school teacher (the Man) tries to make her copulate with her rude husband, a ship Captain who's always traveling (the Beast). Based upon a novel by Luigi Pirandello.

Poker in Bed (great title) is a delightful Italian sex comedy starring Carlo Giuffre as a handsome shoe salesman who turns gigolo when his gambling gets him into trouble. Soon he's juggling three women (and endangering his health from overexertion) when Edwige Fenech waltzes into his life, debasing herself to our amusement as a German health nut and Richard Wagner enthusiast who can only become aroused when wet. (imdb)

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.

This Italian comedy stars Alfredo Pea as a man desperate trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic (Edwige Fenech) proves to be his undoing. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him. Fiore has a witness: a parrot! During his day of work in search of his stolen car, Saracino finds out the thefts of the custom officer Mastrillo, who tries to bribe him... (imdb)

Satire on the Cleopatra legend. (bfi)

Edwige Fenech plays the sexy private teacher of Franco (Alfredo Pea) who immediately falls madly in love with her. Franco tries and tries to seduce her by faking his own suicide. (imdb)

A young English peer leaves England and Thumbs his way across Europe. He sings in hotels and restaurants to make ends meet. When he becomes successful he also finds true love. (imdb)

The German innkeeper Susan, now leading an acting troupe, travels to Italy and uses feminine wiles to undo an assassination plot against Napoleon, and rescue a local count (a great romancer) from his own enemies. (imdb)

Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza. (imdb)

Love story between a pop singer and a high society girl. (bfi)

During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore. (imdb)

First of a series on a typical Roman family. (bfi)

Tells of two petty thieves one of whom is arrested. When he is released he and his friend start an honest life but he soon has an accident. While unconscious he has a vision of San Gennaro, to whom he promises to give up his crimes and vices in return for his life. (bfi)

Five stories, five lives which run into one another: a declining TV star, a fragile young girl, a mistress, a macho kinda guy, a cinema usher, fiances... all of them tell each other stories, looking for happiness and true love. (imdb)

Festa di Laurea (graduation party) is a film about times of change. The story is set at the end of World War II. A middle aged working class man who has just started his own bakery trying to mass produce pastry for the expected influx of mass tourism on the Adriatic has agreed to prepare a completely run down beach house with an overgrown garden for a graduation party. (imdb)

Film in a docu-film style, it's an act of denounce against the tie between Cosa Nostra and teh sicilian mafia that overlay also the political level. The title come from the tradition to put a stone into the mouth to those killed because they have talked, challenging the veil of secrecy that surrounds the organized crime.

The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him everyday and has a hard relationship with his daughter. Sometimes love is the only solution but we realize it when it's too late. (imdb)

Life, Love, What a mess! Piero (Pierfrancesco Favino) wants to change his life and Walter (Carlo Delle Piane) is just the guy to help him. Unfortunately for Piero, it is more than he bargained for. Sorry You Can't Get Through is a story about the journey to discover life and the pursuit of happiness. (imdb)

This is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth. (imdb)

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

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)

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