Gigi Ballista

All sort of things happen: marriage, betrayal, births and deaths, the fabric of every town's life. But decency is more important, and so "si fa ma non si dice" (everybody does it, nobody tells about it) is the law. (IMDB Comments)

A new judge closes a cheese factory for pollution; its owner, La Noce, bribes a monsignor who points him toward an official who might fix it. La Noce needs leverage and discovers the official's taste for other men's wives. He sends his stuttering assistant, Albertini, to hire a willing woman to pretend to be La Noce's wife. Albertini finds a virginal-looking prostitute with a potty mouth... (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)

Here the director adapts his own novel about Mira (Romy Schneider), a firebrand of a woman, who moves from being a ferocious labor organizer to being the mistress of her town's factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi). Labor negotiations provide a background for their brief but devastating romantic affair. (allmovie.com)

Few other Italian movies have as many enthusiastic fans as this low-budget movie of the 70's, displaying two of the best Italian comedians (Gigi Proietti and Enrico Montesano)in the characterization of two horse races-ill who try to earn money as they can, only to lose them at horse races the same day. Until they decide to make a big deal...frauding an important horse race... (imdb)

Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations. (imdb)

Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic. (imdb)

Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy (imdb)

Story about the ghostwriter for a successful author. His convoluted fictional crime stories inspire real life robberies by two crooks, who ultimately involve him unwittingly in their heists. (ftvdb.bfi)

Gianna Abastanza (Mariangelo Melato) is tired of men acting as though they can do everything better than women, so she enters the police force and dons a policewoman's uniform. By following the law more closely than her police comrades and superiors, she soon runs into trouble with them, though this does not prevent love from blossoming. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

A satirical expose of Roman aristocracy today. (bfi)

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

When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda. (imdb)

"Geremia is a smuggler who sneaks cigarettes and chocolate across the border between Switzerland and Italy. His brother-in-law Augusto, a municipal guard, draws him into a plot to smuggle a person across the border, but their efforts collapse when the illegal immigrant is caught and falls to his death in a ravine. Geremia and Augusto discover that the dead man was also transporting two billion lire in his suitcases, which he was supposed to deposit in a Swiss bank... (All Movie Guide)

Sicilian shoe salesman, Rosario, escapes to Copenhagen from his home office in Milan. There he meets and marries a young university student who innocently stars in an 8mm porno film .... (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)

Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back. (imdb)

Surrealist comedy of an industrialist who has a whistling sound in his nose and enters a clinic. He is moved from floor to floor and no treatment has any effect, so he prepares for death. (bfi)

A married middle-class young woman, mother of two children, suddenly falls in love with a younger playboy type man. After a brief and troubled adventure with him, she will return to her husband and her children. (bfi)

Based on the novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. An inspector investigates the death of a 50-year old architect, found dead in his office with his head smashed in. (bfi)

Giorgio Mariuzzo, who co-wrote the horror classics L'Aldila and Quella Villa Accanto al Cimitero, scripted this fairly slow-moving sex farce from director Gianni Antonio Martucci (Thrauma; I Frati Rossi). Pretty Karin Schubert stars as a doctor with her lusty eyes set on a young medical student, and it should come as no surprise that she gets him in the end. Orchidea de Santis co-stars with Eligio Zamara, Alvaro Vitali, and Ely Galleani. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Communists who throw tomatoes at them. To get them to stop, the actor changes their minds by placing emphasis on the romance between the two rather than the politics. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi