Leonardo Benvenuti

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life (imdb)

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)

Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old... (imdb)

Tuscany, August 1944: the Allies have just entered Florence, Italy is devasted by the war, and the people are hungry. "Dieci", who claims to have been a boxer and a manager, gathers a group of young men in order to organise boxing matches to get something to eat... (imdb)

Andrew's brave front convinces his father that he is unaffected by his mother's death. Playmate and protector of his little brother Miles, he is often blamed when mischief goes wrong. Only when tragedy strikes does his father recognize Andrew's true qualities. (imdb)

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects? (imdb)

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery. (imdb)

Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the people they meet, or just wandering around Tuscany. (imdb)

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets. (imdb)

Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. (imdb)

Dr Raniero Borroni Cotti and his wife Fosca, Ivano e Jessica, John and Valeriana. They're three couples who have one thing in common: they've just been married...

Frederica invites a bunch of ex-classmates to her villa by the sea

Episodic comedy drama about two recruits who join Italy's carabinieri, become friends and work together on several cases. (imdb)

Three Italian have to move from their current city to vote to local elections elsewhere. Pasquale is an Italian emigrant living in Munich (Germany). He has to vote somewhere in Calabria (south of Italy). He is genuinely happy to come back in Italy, even if just for some days; but the country he is dreaming is different from the reality he meets. Furio move from Torino to Roma with all his family. He is so niggler and heavy that Magda, his wife, is thinking to escape. Mimmo is a young good fellow (imdb)

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)

Comic goings-on at a holiday resort in Kenya

Third installment of a series launched in 1990 with LE COMICHE and , in 1991, LE COMICHE 2. The basic idea is to bring back to life the slapstick genre with the benefit of modern technology. (bfi.org.uk)

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)

A series of slapstick sketches

A series of slapstick sketches

Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction... (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)

A teacher from Northern Italy lands a post in a small town in the South.

In the Second World War, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania. (imdb)

Silvio Vasco and two policemen are on the trail of a gang of drug traffickers. Their investigations, which lead them from Rome to Milan and then Venice, culminate with the discovery that the head of the gang is an unsuspecting benefactor...

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel. (imdb)

The story deals with the amorous escapades of handsome garage mechanic Bob (Antonio Cifariello). (allmovie.com)

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)

Comedy and episode film about several people in the italian town Viareggio.

Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. (imdb)

The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets a assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron curtain, Don Camillo wants to join. Peppone is strictly against this but after Don Camillo threatens him to disclose information about an earlier side step the mayor agrees. Don Camillo arranges for false papers: He is now comrade Tarocci. Only Peppone and the other villagers know who he really is. (imdb)

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 life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything (jobwise), a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death. (imdb)

Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character. The movie depicts some episodes of the life of a noble in the Rome of the early 19th century. Loosely based on folklore accounts about the real Onofrio del Grillo (who actually lived in the 18th century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. (karagarga.net)

Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meet a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home. Written by Sembola (imdb)

Set in the weeks just prior to Christmas, the story focuses on the Yuletide preparations made by five different families. The humor derives from the communication gap between the elder family members and their bewildering offspring. The powerhouse cast is headed by Vittorio de Sica and Marcello Mastrioanni. (movies.nytimes.com)

Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. (imdb)

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected. (imdb)

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work. Actually it's Maria's lover, a very rich man, who showers her with presents. (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)

A young man whose obsessive lifelong devotion to St. Eusebie has caused him to forego romance and a social life. After a sexual liaison with Delia Boccardo, he realizes what he's been missing in life and does a 180-degree turn into atheism! But when his Godless mentor Lionel Stander insists upon taking last rites when he dies, the befuddled Manfredi has no idea where he stands. (allmovie.com)

Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant. (imdb)

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel... Written by Alkistis Zografou (imdb)

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)

Carlo Piergentili is an oboist and together with his wife Serena, a cellist, are members of the Spoleto Orchestra. Carlo's mother is dying and so he has to inform his sister Silvia - so restless and wandering as he is gentle and peaceful life-loving - and ask her to come back home... (festivaldelcinemaeuropeo)

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge to investigate on a fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed...

La Quaglia is the stationmaster of the small town of Piovarolo, a town where trains don't stop and where the station is small and almost useless. The years pass, La Quaglia gets married, a daughter is born and his awaited promotion never arrives. Maybe a dangerous mishap near the station will bring him some luck...or maybe not. ... (amazon)

A modern-day descendant of the original Dr. Jekyll works for a ruthless multinational company. In the basement of his London townhouse, he discovers his antecedents famous potion. Unfortunately, it has a terrifying effect - it turns him into a nice person!

Paolo Villaggio introduces himself as the "Italian Superman", a well-endowed attraction at an erotic bar who struggles to keep his job a secret from his wife. "The Swedish Horse" stars Nino Manfredi as a strict patriarch who is tempted into infidelity by a nubile houseguest. Finally, Alberto Sordi and Stefania Sandrelli get stuck in "The Elevator" for a whole afternoon and this experience changes both of them. (quartetrecords)

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance? by 1felco (imdb)

Two men becomes friends when they are among a dozen people attending a two-week survival camp in this amusing comedy. The group gathers in the Amazon rainforest, and Silvio (Renato Pozzetto) and Mario (Enrico Montesano) are the odd couple who are paired together to survive. Silvio is a banker, there on the advise of his psychiatrist, while Mario tries to overcome his insecurity after being abandoned by his wife. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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)

A comedy writer embarks on a high-seas adventure in the randy Italian comedy Tesoro mio (1979). Johnny Dorelli stars as Enrico Moroni, a struggling writer of comical fare. When money troubles cause lenders and law-enforcement officials to knock at Moroni's door, the impoverished scribe is forced to go treasure seeking on an island in the Indian Ocean. But Moroni's ability to find gold... (mrskin)

Saverio and Filippo manage a travel agency owned by their wives. Saverio discovers that company money is housing Filippo's mistress, Alice, in a warehouse converted to a loft. He determines to throw her out, but is won over by her beauty. (bfi)

A comedy about an arms merchant that sells to both despots and the revolutionaries who oppose them. (worldcat)

A policeman poses as a drug addict at a party being held by a gang of suspected drug dealers. The hostess is arrested and the cop is landed with her six-year- old son. The child is subsequently kidnapped.... (bfi)

Giovanni Bonfiglio (Paolo Villaggio) is a sports agent from Italy, and he has signed black basketball ace Ben Ferguson (Sterling St. Jacques) to his team for a lot of money. He receives an education in American racism because Ferguson, a Black Panther, must tie up a few loose ends before he heads off to Italy. One of his accomplishments in this fairly violent film is to quiet a potential race riot. (allmovie)

A rich heiress is kidnapped and substituted by a gang member in order to gain access to her fortune. A journalist sets out to rescue her. (bfi)

Film in three episodes: Cocaine on Sunday the professor a businesswoman, Studies in frustration. (bfi)

A journalist undertakes an enquiry into human selfishness. (bfi)

Comedy with a number of typical Italian family men becoming involved in an espionage drama. (bfi)

The adventures of two derelicts. They are prisoners in a battleship, then, after a mutiny, they succeed to become officers. They leave the boat and start to drift all around the Spain with the mere goal to reach something to eat. A prostitute could set their life. (imdb)

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011. (imdb)

The story of a farmer that succeeded to contest the king Alboino in front of all his Royal court, in the Verona (Italy) of the 12th century, using just his cunning. He will risk several times his own life, but the king won't win any dispute at all. (imdb)

A bank officer sets off for his provincial home town to see his dying father, and takes along a casual aquaintance, an American girl. (bfi)

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox. (imdb)

A group of teachers argues about what text to choose to teach history in their school. When they leave the meeting room the two busts of Napoleon and Julius Caesar, which are in the room, come to life and begin debating too. (imdb)

The plot deals with fascists in charge of finding the antifascist printing houses. (imdb)

Drama of a vendetta in Sardinia and how family honour forces a man to shoot his wife, who is in fact blameless, for his honour's sake. (bfi)

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. (imdb)

After the death of their father, two sons, university-educated Franco, and his streetwise brother, Fabio, go into competition against each other for control of his textile business. (bfi)

The story, recounting the traversies of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping/ransom plot, is paper-thin and little more than an excuse to show "exotic" locales. (wiki)

Shows the love affair and its consequences between a married Italian workman and a young girl. (bfi)

Film about the Paris music-hall star Joseph Pujol, famous for his exhibitions of farting. He has problems when he falls in love with a lady who is ignorant of the way he makes his living. (bfi)

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

A bizarre mix of celebrities and extravagates meet on a beach in Versilia, giving rise to grotesque situations. (tcm.com)

Luigi is a television director, and a cynical and unrepentant womanizer. One day he meets Carla, an architecture student, and is immediately attracted to her. But Carla isn't like the other women that Luigi deals with - she's a Catholic who believes in the old and simple values that modern society deems unfashionable. Both try to convince the other of the rightness of their philosophy, and their basic disagreements put their love in jeopardy. (imdb)

The story of Puccini's early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life.

The Ricordi family's interactions with many of the great composers of the nineteenth century are portrayed. (Wikipedia)

The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance. (imdb)

Four friends living in Rome: Alberto, a lawyer who is desperately trying to have a baby with her wife using "targeted sexual encounters"; Christian, a young and handsome footballer in a major team; Sandro, a gas technician with a passion for ladies; Andrea, a dentist. (imdb)

Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic. (imdb)

Comedy based on the comedy play La Betia by Angelo Beolco. (wiki)

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.