Dino Risi

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)

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer of 1962. They will spend two days together, meet both Roberto's and Bruno's family. (imdb)

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. (imdb)

A retired con artist tells the story of how he went from being an actor to becoming a thief and of how he had to give it all up for love.

Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). (AllMovie)

How Funny Can Sex Be? is an eight-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic. (imdb)

Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to secure an important contract through the sexual allure of his secretary... (allmovie.com)

Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, the schoolgirl has become a promiscuous young woman (Ann-Margret) and she pursues him and sucks him into an on-again-off-again romantic tryst where she pulls the strings. "Kitten with a Whip - Italian Style!" (imdb)

Dino spends a day with his son Robertino whom he hadn't seen in five years, since his divorce. In order to win the child's affection, Dino hides the truth of his unaccomplished life behind a web of lies.

"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...

Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere), a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe (Lia Tanzi Gabriella) and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde (Muti). Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle. (imdb)

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. (imdb)

In this comedy, a guru's groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests. (allmovie.com)

The four vignettes on secrets of love and secret lovers - The Telephone Call (La Telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il Trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La Minestra) and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido) are based on stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. (Wikipédia)

The history of Italian fascism from 1919 to 1922 and the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts.

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes. (imdb)

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. (imdb)

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island: Favignana. Although in the island there isn't anything to do for a police commissioner Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist. (imdb)

In this comedy, two Yankee con artists pose as tourists visiting scenic Naples. There they intend to rob an old church. Before pulling the caper, the two enlist the aid of a local criminal. The theft succeeds, but afterwards the crooks begin double-crossing each other. Murder and mayhem ensues as one American murders the other and then heads for the airport dressed as a nun. "Her" loot is, in turn, captured by the Italian crook and his friend. (allmovie.com)

The King Dagobert's intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess. (Allmovie)

A delegation of Italian movie makers go to Argentina to attend to a film festival.

Lybia, 1940. Lupi is a young officer working in the Army Health department. There he meets Oscar Pilli, a doctor whose behaviour is rather strange. (mubi.com)

Vittorio Gassman plays a flint-hearted industrialist who thinks as little of destroying his business partner as he does of cheating on his wife. Gassman's son is an apparently weak-willed lad, who may or may not have become involved in the "Red Brigade". When Gassman learns that his son has been appointed to execute someone known only as "P", he assumes the victim is his ex-partner. (allmovie.com)

Antonio lives in Laveno, on the shores of Lake Maggiore and has only one passion in life: the cinema

The story traces the development of a love affair between a girl and a young Venetian boy over a period of time from 1935 to 1950. She becomes a star and he eventually disappears during the Russian campaign. (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)

Film picturing several sexually disturbed characters, one a publisher who sees all women in the nude, a maniac assassin, a timid clerk who believe he is a woman, etc... (bfi)

Sentimental comedy of a love affair between a barber and a factory girl set in the Italian provinces. (bfi)

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody. (imdb)

After witnessing the brutal murder of an elderly lady, a man has an encounter with a bizarre woman who claims to be an old lover of his... A lover who apparently committed suicide years ago. (imdb)

Romantic adventures of a handsome Venetian gondolier. (bfi)

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)

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

Film in ten episodes: Domenica in. La nuova Marisa. Radio taxi. Rasoio all'antica. Il macho. Lady Jane. Armanda e il violinista. L'avventura. Luna di miele. La principessa e il cameriere. (bfi)

Story about a fickle teenager who runs two boys of the neighborhood a merry chase before she settles on an older man. (bfi)

In the final chapter in the trilogy started with Poveri ma belli, two freshly married young couples end up back in Rome after a botched double Honeymoon to Florence. After Salvatore (Renato Salvatori) is suddenly fired from his job, his bride Marisa (Lorella De Luca) seeks to annul the marriage - but his luck takes an unexpected turn in the form of a car accident.

Domestic comedy about a grandmother's attempts to prevent a young girl from marrying the boy she is in love with. (bfi)

A film centered around the infatuation with the film industry at the time, and the story of three young women trying to find love and stardom in Cinecitta.

Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl. (themoviedb)

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

Imprisoned in a cell with an innocent young man (Lamberto Maggiorani), a hardened criminal (Lawrence) makes his getaway when his cellmate's chums try to help their incarcerated friend escape. On the outside, the older criminal finds himself the object of hero worship by the impressionable local adolescents. But before long he proves beyond doubt that he'll never be role-model material. Former Miss Italy Giovanna Pala is decorative if not particularly talented as Lawrence's gun moll. (allmovie.com)

Marshall Antonio Carotenuto comes back to native Sorrento to take care of the local fire brigade. But since Sofia, a very nice fishmonger, occupies his native house Antonio share another home with Donna Violante, secretly fall in love with him. Sofia accepts to marry Antonio almost as a joke to make Nicolino, a traffic policeman, getting jealous. The chances for the two deloused sweethearts aren't over as it could appear. (imdb)

A business executive is a widower and has to take care of five children. Things get even more complicated when the boys discover that his father has a mistress much younger.

The protagonist, Augusto, former bank manager, has been in a nursing home for many years. When she starts to get a quiet life she can not establish a good relationship with the young woman and her new husband. However, he has a certain paternal and affectionate friendship with his daughter and in the exchange of understanding finds some balance.

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another. (imdb)

Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.