Luigi Comencini

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)

A wealthy American woman plays her annual game of cards with an impoverished couple in Rome.

The new marshal of Sagliena, Antonio Carotenuto, has dreams to marry Maria 'la Bersagliera' who is already in love with a shy policeman.

Offers a voyeuristic glimpse at the sub rosa world of 20th century white slavery. Veteran Hollywood heavy Marc Lawrence plays a vice lord who recruits innocent young Italian ladies for his nefarious purposes, on the pretext of hiring them to be cabaret dancers in South America. Despite the fact that none of Lawrence's "girls" ever return home, the new candidates suspect nothing as they sign up for the tour. (allmovie.com)

Set in a small Italian village in the 1940s, La Ragazza di Bube tells the story of a woman who falls in love with a complete stranger (George Chakiris). The stranger turns out to have killed a fascist policeman during World War II and is sent to jail for 14 years. The woman pines for the convict and waits out his sentence, spurning the love of a writer (Marc Michel) who wants to marry her. (allmovie.com)

The story begins in Tuscany. A carpenter Master Antonio, but who everyone calls Master Cherry for his bright shiny red nose, has found a block of pinewood which he plans to carve into a leg for his table. When he begins, however, the log shouts out, "don't chop me!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto, known for disliking children who call him "Polendina," drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette... (Wikipedia)

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)

The four vignettes on secrets of love and secret lovers - The Telephone Call (La Telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il Trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La Minestra) and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido) are based on stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. (Wikipédia)

The story of a child who loves running, his oppressive father and a bus driver who becomes the kid's mentor.

"Senza sapere niente di lei" tells a dark story about a young lawyer that falls in love with a strange girl with an unknown past.

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. (allmovie.com)

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)

Sonia, a beautiful gold digger, mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for the Arab prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri. Antonio goes there behind his wife and mother in law's back. Due to a lucky series of circumstances he really does becomes the prince of the island. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)

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)

After the 8th September 1943 (when the Fascist Government was deposed), an Italian officer, Pietro Innocenzi, gives up his uniform and makes his way from the North to his home in Naples. Here he is drawn back into combat, this time on the side of the partesans who liberate the city. (bfi)

Dramatic farce about four desperate prisoners trying to regain their social status. (bfi)

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

Three episodes of love affairs. (bfi)

Four episodes satirising the relationship of man and wife. (bfi)

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur. (imdb)

Eugenio is brought up by his grandparents after his parents separate. His father's friend abandoned him one day, but he is found and given much unaccustomed affection. Encouraged by his father's friend, however, he runs away, and no one notices... (bfi)

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While making every effort to retrieve his baggage he finds out how devastated and miserable the city of Naples is. Learning that he has been the victim of gang of local street urchins, he decides that is mission is here in Naples, not under distant skies. He creates a home for poor kids, assisted by Maddalena, the cook... (imdb)

Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs, habits, medecine, religion and most of all - the omnipresence of hypocrisy. (imdb)

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)

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)

An investigation into the death of a man killed by a pimp leads to unforeseen complications for a man bent on justice. (bfi)

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancé are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town. (imdb)

Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life... (imdb)

Sandra (Rossi Drago) searches for her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa. (en.wikipedia.org)

Giovanni is a young man who has been used by a Catholic publishing house to advertise, with his face, a publication concerning Jesus' life. Francesca is a mysterious girl he meets on the street and who's being sought by the police. They leave together, but will their troubles catch up with them?

A social document of children, against the background of post-WWII Milan. (imdb)

La valigia dei sogni ("Suitcase of dreams") is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. (wikipedia.org)

Comencini interviews children from different Italian regions and different social conditions, but mainly the poorest, visiting them in the suburbs of big cities or in the countryside.

What shall we do with our folks when we, young ones,want to have fun and to make the best of our life ? (imdb)

A man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death. (imdb)

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.

When Heidi, a little girl who leads an idyllic life with her grandfather in the Alps, is cruelly taken from the mountain retreat by a stern aunt, she adapts to life in the village below by bringing humor and goodwill to every situation.