Gigi Reder

Based on Paolo Villaggio's book "Fantozzi", which is popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year (imdb)

The culmination of filmmaker Federico Fellini's lifelong love affair with circus folk. Fellini's alter ego this time is a young boy, taking in his first circus... (All Movie Guide)

Giandomenico Fracchia must be the world greatest loser: his colleagues at the chocolate factory make fun of him, his boss harrasses him, the woman he loves hates him... and things are going to be even worse! Fracchia is the lookalike of the Belva Umana (the Human Beast), the most dangerous criminal in the world... (imdb)

One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live... (imdb)

After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani... (imdb)

When God created man, his first try at it wasn't very successful... Fantozzi was born, and right from the beginning of time he was doomed to be humiliated and laughed at. In a number of episodes we follow the unlucky adventures of the various descendants of Fantozzi through time, from the moment they are thrown out of the Garden of Eden to the Space Age of the future. (imdb)

Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house within three days, or otherwise his boss will fire him. Mister Filini comes to him, but he asks the impossible, a house with at least five bathrooms for a few thousand dollars. Incredibly, they find a house, a castle in Transylvania which happens to be own by a count Vlad...

In the third movie of the saga, Fantozzi struggles with a cycling fanatic boss, an unfortunate bicycle race and his wife, who is platonically in love with a baker.

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses. (imdb)

Fantozzi has problems again. His daughter is pregnant from a man who does not care about this. To save family name, Fantozzi gets involved into medical venture.

The ever-hapless Fantozzi (Paolo Villagio) is back, in this comic installment chronicling the adventures of a man whose name has become a by-word in the Italian language for a sad-sack loser. In this story, he is still at work in the large company he will later retire from. In a speech in front of all the employees of the company, the president refers to him as a perfect example of a failure... ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi (fandango)

In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen.

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)

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)

An unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married. (imdb)

Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations... by Stefano Pavono (imdb)

Comedy concerning a humble bank teller Arturo De Fanti, who finds himself unable to maintain his country house. His wife agrees to their taking in his mistress, but her cabaret earnings fail to balance the family budget. They offer a place to the wife's lover... (ftvdb.bfi)

Decades after serving together in combat, a motley group of veterans gathers to recall past glories in the farcical Italian comedy Riavanti... Marsch! (1979). Nostalgic in tone but slapstick in its antics, Luciano Salce's film explores the divergent paths that the members of a WWII-era military company have taken since the end of the war. Some of the men recall their glories on ... (mrskin)

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

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti (Totò) refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul. (Diogenes81)

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)

Story about a gypsy expresso vendor who is illegally working Italy's express trains and his skirmishes with Italian bureaucrats, pickpockets and passengers. (bfi)

The film is about some youths' love stories: Franco and his hairdresser girlfriend Adriana, Otello another hairdresser who is hopelessly in love with Adriana. The youths usually meet in a restaurant whose owner, Ines, seduces Franco making Adriana very jealous. In turn the girl decides to accept Otello's courting. (imdb)

A widow, Fanny, returns to Naples after the death of her husband. She is met by Ferdinando, the illegitimate son of the baron, and taken to a villa. However, her jewels and money are stolen and Ferdinando disappears. She tracks him down and becomes involved in a "sting" with him. (bfi)

Valentina, an epileptic girl, is sent to a psychiatric clinic after many years of treatment. Arturo, a young psychiatrist, takes her under his wing and, despite his own troublesome personal life and the inefficient public health system, he develops a close relationship with Valentina. His commitment to understanding her family life, rather than a reliance on drugs, allows them to finally understand her true condition.