Enzo Cannavale

A famous film director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena, who he had to leave before he left for Rome. (imdb)

Artemio is a farmer and he lives in a house with his mother, in the country. Maria Rosa lives in the village nearby and she is the only girl he ever saw. Unfortunately she very ugly and she wants to marry him. Artemio decides to leave everything and to go to Milan looking for something better. In the city he meets Angela and falls for her. But Milan and Angela are too much for a simple farmer. (imdb)

The action comedy Piedone Lo Sbirro concerns a police officer who goes to great and unusual lengths to put some nasty drug dealers behind bars. (All Movie Guide)

An insurance broker, very fond of music, has two sons: the older is in love with a Sicilian girl but her father is against their love story; the younger is a disgrace to his father since he got a very low mark at music at school. (imdb)

Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell where oil is and lots of criminals are interested in it. (imdb)

Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department. (imdb)

Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side... (imdb)

A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italians. (imdb)

A series of slapstick sketches

Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name. (imdb)

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men. (imdb)

The cops vs. the mafia with Tomas Milian as supercop Nico Giraldi. (deanmarshall.co.uk)

The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnapped by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out. (imdb)

In fascist Italy, a barber who lost the use of his legs after the shock for the breakup with his girlfriend, tries to win her back.

A man and woman, living together in an old folks home find love in each other's company.

Marcella (Fenech) inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime all done up 70's Italian comedy style. (imdb)

Two boys, one from a working class background, the other from a well-to-do professional family, are about to leave school. They arrange a party to celebrate, with the intention of making off with the funds.

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)

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests. (imdb)

This three-part romantic comedy illustrates that people are never too old to fall in love and often act too old when they are young. Silvio Ceccato plays a man who believes he is Socrates. His concerned wife hires two actors of questionable talent to play his "disciples." Soon the wife and the man's own psychiatrist (Luciano De Cresenzo) are questioning their own sanity... ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

The US Navy wishes to recover a sunken submarine from waters off Italy, and the Italian Navy has to provide a liaison crew to assist in the work. The team will be former sailors recalled for this special mission, and a computer is set to work to select the best men for the job. (tg-films.info)

The main character in this comedy-detective story is Riccardo Finzi. The apparently plodding, Sad Sack-type P.I. has just gotten licensed and arrives in Milan with high hopes, however high they are in his case, of launching his investigative career. A trip to a night spot lands him a place to live in, a nubile young woman, and a murder case when he finds out the next morning that the nymphet has been killed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

One of the 8 movies from 1981 with Montagnani, king of erotic comedy of the 70s, once again playing a Casanova. A fast-paced comedy with crescendo in the comic finale.

Zerboni, owner of the Zerboni and Basta company decides to give free Greek holidays to a number of his employees, hoping to seduce one of them, Angela, while his storekeeper Augusto is well paid to distract Zerboni's wife. (ftvdb.bfi)

Laura Antonelli stars as Rosa, the bratty young daughter of a rich, authoritative father (Fernando Rey) who's obsessed with his daughter's inheritance. When the virginal Rosa begins developing eyes for every male within spitting distance, her father tries to keep her blossoming desires under wraps for the sake of his pocketbook. Antonelli plays her part with wildcat unrestraint--she's quick to lose her bra, and there's plenty of jiggling going on throughout. (amazon)

Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio. Written by Il Tesoro (imdb)

Johnny is a nebbishy cook in a luxury Italian hotel who spends his spare time at the local disco (subtly named John's Fever) drinking oversized glasses of wine and staring from afar at the club's lovely DJ, Illona. His disco-obsessed friends want Johnny to stop being such a downer and introduce himself to Ilona but his shyness and complete inadequacy on the dancefloor put a stop to this. (cinematicobsessive)

At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes. Written by (imdb)

Salvatore and Concetta have been engaged for a long time, but are unable to marry because of money and family problems. Concetta is invited to America with the family of an aunt and, before leaving, she swears eternal fidelity to Salvatore. A year later, after having no news of Concetta, Salvatore leaves for New York to find her. (worldcat)

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. Pippo Sperandio, a simple clerk in a factory, steals the identity of his boss and takes temporarily in his place for a holiday in a village resort in Sardinia. He is soon kidnapped by some bandits, convinced that he is the factory's owner. (ftvdb.bfi)

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was. (themoviedb)

Gloria and her sister go with Grandma to the horse track. Grandma has Gloria make a bet, and her horse wins, but Gloria has bet on the wrong horse. Grandma drops dead on the spot. Gloria and her sister inherit a villa, and decide to turn it into a Pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house. An investigation is started by a judge, who is famous for enforcing morals... (amazon)

Is a slapstick comedy from Italy involving two middle-aged men who vie for the attention of two very beautiful women... (mrskin)

Film about a family and its problemS, which include unemployment and money difficulties. (ftvdb.bfi)

Bombolo and E. Cannavale star as Cicciobello and Michele--bumbling, dishonest buddies who aren't above making outlandish promises to suckers with deep pockets. By staking out a count's mansion as the location of their next big score, the friends set their sights on Arab sheiks, glitzy heiresses, and other big spenders. From phony investments to promised meetings with the Pope, Cicciobello and Michele use big promises as bait for fat wads of cash and heaps of amorous pleasure... (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)

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 man covets another man's wife. (worldcat)

Encounters and adventures of a summer holiday. (imdb)

A bratty daughter recoils from her father's constricting rules and vows to find a woman to keep him occupied. Luisa (Maria Rosaria Omaggio) cleverly realizes that her daddy won't get between her and her wishes if he's busy making lecherous passes at his employees, so she arranges for a Swedish knockout to work for him... (mrskin)

Comedy about a confirmed bachelor who is only entitled to his mother's inheritance if he marries and has to convince his father that he is heading for the altar. (bfi)

lga Villi essays the title role in the Italian Yvonne la Nuit. The film certainly spares its heroine nothing: her lover killed in WW I, her child kidnapped by her lover's aristocratic father, Yvonne pours out her heart in song at every opportunity. Only in her dotage is Yvonne permitted a measure of happiness with a buffoonish companion who has loved her from afar... ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Comedy about the attempts of a young father to seduce a palæontology student on a train journey to southern Italy. (bfi)

Set in Naples. A series of situations show up a town which is plagued by bad administration, the Mafia and a self-serving mentality. (bfi)

Italian action star Luc Merenda stars as Dario Mauri, a Milanese cop who is transferred to Naples. He immediately sets his sights on bringing down crime boss Laurenzi (Claudio Gora), with begrudging assistance from his wisecracking new partner, Capece (Enzo Cannavale). Laurenzi also has other problems to deal with: one of his drug shipments has been stolen and attempts to get it back reveal traitors in his midst. ~ Donald Guarisco, Rovi

Comedy in which a hardworking concierge arranges for her husband, who is constantly unemployed, to give services of a sexual nature to her tenants. (bfi)

A citizen of a certain age wants to marry Rosa, an elderly woman, but she is a widow and had promised her late husband that she would marry only a nobleman. Rosa pushes her daughter into the arms of the man, however the girl, prefers a poor fisherman from Naples. (forzaitalia.com.au)

A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses. (imdb)

A grieving, recently widowed cop meets Bruno, a gangster who has inherited his dead wife's eyes through surgical transplantation, and falls unexplainably in love with him. The two men, both seemingly heterosexual, are as surprised as their shocked and apalled families. Unable to ignore their mutual attraction, Bruno's fiancee leaves him and his mafia family threatens to throw him out. (tcm)

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him. (imdb)

Nino leaves his girlfriend in Napoli as he is hired as the new pizzaiolo in an albergo in the North of Italy. There he meets the daughter of the owner, Romy.

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. (imdb)