Franco Castellano

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 comedy spy thriller about an evil genius, Dr. Goldfoot who is conspiring to ruin and rule the world. (BFI)

Tito Torrisi, a grumpy and misogynist lawyer, is forced to help young and beautiful waitress Mary, who came to Firenze from New York to meet her husband and is in really big trouble.

Mattia,a succesful writer, is known to be a womanizer. One day he decides to change his ways so he confesses all his sins to a priest.

Rebel young princess in visit to Roma escapes from her oppressive family for a ride in the city. During her run she meets Barnaba, a crazy bus driver who falls in love with her and wants to conquer her even though her family is going to marry her off to a billionaire.

Asso, the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the final game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his widow. (imdb)

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli. (imdb)

Carlo is in love with Gabriella and he decides to marry her. She agrees but some problems begin when their parents meet. Giuseppe D'Amore and Antonio Cocuzza take at once a dislike to each other and begin fighting over everything. The marriage is then called off and Carlo and Gabriella decide to fly away... Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia (imdb)

Rimini, summer 1991. On the beach and in the night joints of this Adriatic town, many of the usual summer guests go about their holiday life and their paths meet. Billy Damasco is a piano player at a local piano bar, one of the most fashionable in the whole place. For the moment fortune has turned its back on him. Angelo and Silvano, two laborers, arrive on the coast to try to seduce and marry two beautiful girls, who are also rich... (imdb)

Three episodes. First Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. Second. Guiseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. Third. Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman. (imdb)

This is another comedy anthology from the team that brought us Zucchero, miele e peperoncino' (1980). It features the same cast, the same premise and the same courthouse. Three cases of misunderstanding and mischief follow: First up in court is Renato (Pippo Franco), who in order to enjoy the cheapest holiday possible, builds his own beach house. The trouble starts when a small group of nudists.... (twistedanger)

After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her. Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia (imdb)

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Uno: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Due: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Tre: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between... by Il Tesoro (imdb)

Antonio and Felice two experience swindlers - always afraid to get arrested by their school friend Malvasia - use the money to pay the college of Antonio's daughter, Diana. Ignoring his origin, Diana falls in love with Franco, who is not only one of her father's victims, but also the policeman's son! Love, humorism and an unexpected inheritance solve a situation that could have gotten out of hand... (movie-time)

Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations...

This movie is divided into three parts tracing the lives and problems of various people. (worldcat)

Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life. (imdb)

Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course she retained all of her young beauty and immediately Gianni is attracted to her, but after he begins thinking she is best left behind she follows him around creating havoc in his normal life. Gianni believes he can transform her into a beautiful modern day woman. Written by Ørnås (imdb)

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles. (imdb)

Comedy about the rivalry of two brothers in love and business during the Universal Exhibition in Rome, in 1911. (bfi)

After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns in order to participate in the third crusade in the Holy Land. He is accompanied by Gian Puccio, his sluggish squire, drawn by the money and by the charm of ... Leonzia. (imdb)

The misadventures of Sicilian worker Saverio Ravizzi (Buzzanca), who escapes from being killed in a strike demonstration and eventually finds a new job in a factory in Bergamo. He begins to mobilize his fellow workers into better working conditions, unaware that his spontaneous activism is in fact being used as part of a large financial scheme by the factory owner. (imdb)

Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three. He is then robbed of his uniform and he is involved in a weapons trafficking. The other three are looking for him when they find three beautiful girls. At the end they all will meet at the night club Alcazar. What will it happen? (imdb)

Four penniless friends go to Rimini a famous Italian beach resort because they want to forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends. (imdb)

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crashlands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers. (imdb)

A husband and wife are divided. He likes football, is in fact a referee, and so neglects her. She tries other men; he other women, and finally they discover that they love each other. (bfi)

The baron Ludovico Bonfanti lost all he had by gambling and he was forced to entrust his daughter Marina to his sister Adelaide. He promised never to tell Marina he was an actor. Now Marina is grown up and Adelaide is looking for a rich man to marry her, but Marina finds out the truth about her father and falls in love with Franco whom she believes poor. But Franco is a Marquis. (imdb)

Two men con a large sum of money out of a gangster. The mobster thinks he is dying and wants them to buy a bell for the local church and pay for his sins. Naturally the two swindlers begin to squander the money. The gangster however begins to recover from his illness... (imdb)

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure. (imdb)

The Grand Hotel Cortez is an old castle and the tale says that it is haunted. "Ghost" is the nickname of the famous jewels thief whom Jean-Marie Semolin wants to catch. Jean-Marie comes from France and he is sure that Ghost is among the hotel guests. A real ghost is haunting the place, a she-ghost, Maria Celeste Cortez. But the ghost has lost her shroud and she must find it. We can foresee some confusion. (imdb)

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college. (imdb)

A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom. (imdb)

A bandit poses as Bonaparte to misdirect munitions, and harass the Italian troops. (bfi)

Four former soldiers meet and reminesce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe. (imdb)

Three episodes of love affairs. (bfi)

The army challenges the navy in a singing contest. (imdb)

Hero becomes involved with a gang of counterfeiters employed by the Chinese to flood the world with false currency and hops around the Mediterranean. (bfi)

Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations. (imdb)

A comedy about incompetent spies in the second world war. (bfi)

His Vice Was Selling His Wife...Until the Vice Went Versa (imdb)

The romantic adventures of a young man and his eventual happy marriage. (bfi)

Scotland Yard commissioner, Green, is sent to France to investigate a series of crimes committed by the elusive Dorellik. (bfi)

War-time comedy, with music. A young girl, a young professor and an American captain try to escape from occupied Florence to Allied lines. (bfi)

During the second world war a couple of inept soldiers have various escapades, including disguising themselves as Hitler and Mussolini, while trying to avoid the conflict. (bfi)

An extremely rich old lady confesses to her niece Olga that she has hidden all her wealth under a 'lion' in her native city, Leningrad. The conversation is heard by other people and this generates a hunt for the old lady's hidden treasure. (bfi)

Film about a group of young people at a holiday resort called Panarea and their romantic involvements. (imdb)

Two policeman make endless blunders and eventually end up in prison for having brought the force into disrepute. (bfi)

Three films directed by three masters of Italian comedy. L'Equivoco directed by Luigi Comecini, Macchina d'amore directed by Nanny Loy and Il Superiore directed by Luigi Magni. (mubi)

A clerk is used by a prostitute as a dummy protector. While masquerading as a nurse his employer uses the police charge against him as an excuse to use his flat as a rendezvous, with complications. (bfi)

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

Mimì and Ninì are supposedly the top double bass duo of the world, but they're not making any money playing street concerts in Rome. When Ninì inherits a million from his grandmother, they decide to go to all foreign countries imaginable in order to find a worthy place for themselves and their talent. From Paris to Madrid, Edinburgh to Hong Kong; wearing skirts in Scotland, risking to eat dogs in Asia; all this between striptease shows and other forms of entertainment.. (myduckisdead)

Camillo Gorini breaks off the engagement with Isabella, niece to the baroness Holz, the manageress of the insurance company "Baviera", where he works. One night he goes to a club with his colleague Bernardo Cesarotti and they are involved in a strange adventure by a dancer, Odette. She belongs to a gang whose bosses are at the moment imprisoned, and Camillo and Bernardo are taken to jail to take their place... (European Film Festival)