Carlo Giuffrè

Roberto Benigni brings one of the world's most famous and beloved tales magically to the screen. (Miramax)

Germi plays Andrea, a railroad engineer with a large and troublesome family. Faced with a choice between supporting his fellow workers in a strike and keeping his family fed, Andrea opts for the latter. Branded a scab by his former cohorts, he is likewise given the cold shoulder by his wife and children. Drowning his disappointment in liquor, can Andrea be saved from self-destruction? (All Movie Guide)

Based on the book by Curzio Malaparte, the film is a collection of bitter memories about the Allied liberation of Naples. (umuc.edu)

Comedy-drama about a Sicilian woman (Vitti) who, "dishonored" by her lover, goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him. (imdb)

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. (imdb)

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)

The movie tells the story of an italian politician's shady attempt to take over a newspaper of the opposition.

A young and very nice country girl joins to a little theatrical team, provoking jealousies and gossips around herself. (imdb)

Michael Fiore, a Neapolitan married to Rosaria, with the help of matrimonial advertisements in newspapers, lures wealthy widows. But one day paola know, a woman a bit 'strange and falls in love.

Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing. (imdb)

It started in bed and ended in the gutter!" Sal Lococco struggles with his small income from a gas station. A limo full of gangsters pulls in and they demand that Sal fly to Italy and kill Nick Manzano, an enemy of "the Don". If not, they will torch his station and slay his family.

This movie about a poor Neapolitan guy that emigrates in Rome to find a job is hilarious. After reading a book about sex written from American experts he manages to work out a profession of it, making himself an expert in sexual matters... (imdb)

Comedy concerning a humble bank teller Arturo De Fanti, who finds himself unable to maintain his country house. His wife agrees to their taking in his mistress, but her cabaret earnings fail to balance the family budget. They offer a place to the wife's lover... (ftvdb.bfi)

Three episodes: L'OMAGGIO (The Homage); SABATO POMERIGGIO (Saturday Afternoon); Il CONDOMINIO (The Condominium). Erotic comedy. (ftvdb.bfi)

Decades after serving together in combat, a motley group of veterans gathers to recall past glories in the farcical Italian comedy Riavanti... Marsch! (1979). Nostalgic in tone but slapstick in its antics, Luciano Salce's film explores the divergent paths that the members of a WWII-era military company have taken since the end of the war. Some of the men recall their glories on ... (mrskin)

A Tuscan noblewoman tries to take her revenge on her lover - destroying his career and political ambitions by pushing him into the arms of a prostitute who becomes his fiancée. But her plan backfires and local society applauds the marriage. (bfi)

Salvatore Prevosti loses his life in an automobile accident because he was thinking of his wife Catarina (Edwige Fenech). After this everybody wears black for the rest of the film. Unless Catarina and her scheming mother Franchesca can prove she is carrying an heir, Salvatore's greedy brothers will claim his inheritance. (worldcat)

Man's ambition to follow in his father's footsteps to become a cuirassier. (bfi)

The young widow of an ice-cream vendor is persuaded by the town mayor to stay in a small 'trullo' instead of leaving town. Though several townsmen show an interest in her, Maddalena remains true to the spirit of her late husband until she meets his double, flamboyant archaeologist Luigi Granini. (imdb)

When the wealthy Don Santore dies during a sexual intercourse in a sauna, the members of his extended family get involved in a long series of sexual frolics and shenanigans. (bfi)

A simple young girl comes to Rome to work as an au pair girl. The family shares their apartment with other tenants, all of whom take excessive interest in the girl. (bfi)

Comedy. Five episodes. (bfi)

A sexy piano teacher is the object of desire of one of the young boys in her class. One of his classmates finds out where she lives and hides outside her place, taking pictures of her undressing and writhing naked on her bed. He uses those photos to blackmail her into dressing up and acting like a hooker while teaching the class, and from there things get interesting. (bfi)

Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, Elisabeth Wiener and Emma Cohen are 4 pretty girls rooming together. After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street! They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot in this lighthearted caper comedy with a bit of nudity! Serge Gainsbourg did the bouncy score. (imdb)

Romolo and Salvatore decide to forget they party life and find a decent job. (filmaffinity)

In Positano, a group of men try unsuccessfully to seduce young tourists at the end of the summer season.

Doctor Gaudenzi's wife is about to die and, being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with another women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there".

The film tells the story of the comedian Francesco and his creative crisis after his girlfriend Paola left him. After several years of professional darkness, he returns to the spotlight with a series of brilliant shows that draw on his private life.

The salient phases of the conquest of the trench called "dei rockazzi" by the Sassari Brigade are narrated in the context of the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo. In the trenches, among the Italian troops, we spend time remembering family affections and debating the best way to break down the enemy defenses. The order to attack the Austrians comes from the Italian command. The major who commands the Italian battalion prepares an attack plan; the soldiers are aware that most of them will not survive.