Carlo Verdone
Country: Italy
Total Credits at Criticker: 38 (Actor), 24 (Director), 21 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Romeo is a washed out musician who moves to Brussels in order to find the love of his life, following the recommendation of a fortune teller. While living with his older lady friend Marguerite, he coincidentally meets a young Italian woman named Iris, with whom he will form a new musical act, and hopefully even more.
Four episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gays, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in an important restaurant has a liaison with Cecilia the new young Spanish help in cuisine. (imdb)
Dr Raniero Borroni Cotti and his wife Fosca, Ivano e Jessica, John and Valeriana. They're three couples who have one thing in common: they've just been married...
Gepy is a famous Television presenter who exploits the miseries of others for his own gain. But that's about to change once Arianna enters his world.
Gregorio, Vanni and Livia are the three sons of a famous sculptor; Vanni is a classical pianist, Gregorio left music academia and now is a DJ with the nickname of 'Dr. Music', Livia lives a double life with a husband and another man: they live separated and rarely meet. When the father disappears, the three try to find him and start to travel through all the places of their family's story and in the meantime they start to truly know each other. (imdb)
Episodic comedy drama about two recruits who join Italy's carabinieri, become friends and work together on several cases. (imdb)
An Italian-born actress turned stage mother brings her daughter Sandy to Rome for three months' work as a supermodel. Sandy, who's between "soap and water" and womanhood, needs a tutor. Mom wants scholarly Father Spinelli, but when she calls his school, she reaches Rolando, a janitor who longs to teach. He's broke, so robed as a priest, he shows up to take the job. He's a terrific teacher, but Sandy soon realizes he's not Spinelli and will keep quiet only if he'll take her out under the guise of (http://imdb/title/tt0086850/plotsummary)
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance. (imdb)
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)
Three Italian have to move from their current city to vote to local elections elsewhere. Pasquale is an Italian emigrant living in Munich (Germany). He has to vote somewhere in Calabria (south of Italy). He is genuinely happy to come back in Italy, even if just for some days; but the country he is dreaming is different from the reality he meets. Furio move from Torino to Roma with all his family. He is so niggler and heavy that Magda, his wife, is thinking to escape. Mimmo is a young good fellow (imdb)
Theatrical agent Ercole Preziosi loses his most valuable comedian and as a last minute replacement offers his driver Nicola a standup gig. Much to Ercole's surprise, Nicola is a hit with the audience and immediately begins putting demands on his new manager. (film.com)
A nice love story between two anxious hypochondriacs, a Jimi Hendrix biographer and an actress.
The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything (jobwise), a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death. (imdb)
Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meet a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home. Written by Sembola (imdb)
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises... (imdb)
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant. (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)
Sergio Benvenuti finds job as musical agent in an important Italian publisher. This could be his final step before to marry Rossella. But his career does not rise, so he asks Nadia Vandelli, a more experienced agent and a nice girl, to work together just for one day, in order to gain some more experience. They have to meet Manuel Fantoni in his own flat... Written by 1felco (imdb)
Carlo Piergentili is an oboist and together with his wife Serena, a cellist, are members of the Spoleto Orchestra. Carlo's mother is dying and so he has to inform his sister Silvia - so restless and wandering as he is gentle and peaceful life-loving - and ask her to come back home... (festivaldelcinemaeuropeo)
Eight people, of different ages and with different stories, live in Rome united only because they are in the same therapy group. This includes three women and four men, whose stories show in a comical way, from choral scenes to more intimate ones, the frailty but also the wish to change and the ability to react typical of our contemporaries. (archivio.festivaldelcinemaeuropeo)
The film's sequel Bianco, Rosso e Verdone; Produced nearly 30 years later, observes the same three characters at a later point in life again, all played by Verdone
The unlikely story of a cat entrusted to hatch and raise a baby seagull is brought to life in this Italian animated fable. Zorba is the lucky cat, and "Lucky" is his seagull "child," which she must teach to fly while avoiding the urge to eat her. Along the way, Lucky must realize she is not a cat, while helping her feline friends fight the "Big Rat." (amazon)
The duo Verdone-Arena is really winning the love that these two comic actors feel towards Sonia (Margherita Suma) is truly irresistible and leads Raffaele Cuoco (Lello Arena) ironically to show his love for her... by robertofuiano (imdb)
Due to a crisis of faith, Father Carlo Mascolo is back home from a 10 years mission in Africa. His issues may have to wait though as his family has a crisis of its own.
Saverio and Filippo manage a travel agency owned by their wives. Saverio discovers that company money is housing Filippo's mistress, Alice, in a warehouse converted to a loft. He determines to throw her out, but is won over by her beauty. (bfi)
A policeman poses as a drug addict at a party being held by a gang of suspected drug dealers. The hostess is arrested and the cop is landed with her six-year- old son. The child is subsequently kidnapped.... (bfi)
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)
Sogni e bisogni (1985) - TV Mini-Series
Series of plays written by Sergio Citti, David Grieco. (bfi)
The story of an aging writer who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth. A portrait of today's Rome. (imdb)
When a man fires a hotel maid for stealing, the woman's son gets his revenge. (imdb)
Verdone plays a very rich broker, who in just two days loses his wife and job and has to live with two children and a granddaughter. Over the years, he has only had sporadic and superficial relationships with them. (icff.ca)
A faithful husband devoted to religion suddenly finds himself single and his life overwhelmed by his new shop assistant. (imdb)
Vita da Carlo (2021) - TV Series
Carlo Verdone plays himself by portraying the drama and the comedy of his private life and his relationship with a loving and oppressive mother: Rome. (imdb)