Mario Carotenuto

This curious film attempts to mix suspense and comedy as it details the efforts of Mussolini's Italy to deal with the public outcry over a series of child sex murders. (All Movie Guide)

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

When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers. (imdb)

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to bring the group down. (imdb)

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. Orazio believes the local gangster is guilty and he rushes to Occhio di Bue's home. When he finds out a different truth, Orazio, Occhio di Bue and his friends will try to get back the loot to put it back before the robbery is disclosed. (imdb)

A retired con artist tells the story of how he went from being an actor to becoming a thief and of how he had to give it all up for love.

Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects. (imdb)

Ravelli is a cop consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook is Marseilles, who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement. As the revenge scenario moves toward the inevitable confrontation, Emergency Squad retains interest because it paints both leads in a complex fashion. Ravelli's obsessive quest makes him as scary as he is sympathetic and the icy Marseilles reveals some surprisingly vulnerable sides to his character. (allmovie.com)

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men. (imdb)

Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde. (imdb)

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)

Gloria Guida stars in this Italian sex-comedy in which she plays a private nurse who is involved in a family struggle for the estate of the ailing old man she cares for. (imdb)

This Italian comedy stars Alfredo Pea as a man desperate trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic (Edwige Fenech) proves to be his undoing. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Pierino, after graduating in medicine, returns to Rome to be near his family. Recommended by Loggia P2 he manages to secure a position as primary helper in a hospital. (worldcat)

A private detective and his clumsy partner are seduced and hired by a sexy woman to enter a mansion in disguise to steal her rich ex-husband's jewellery collection and give it to her. The object of this is to prevent his daughter from inheriting it after his death. They start working in kitchen as a gay chef and his wife. The daughter soon comes home for vacation with her schoolfriends and the house is overrun with many beautiful girls, sexy maids and a casanova gardener.(tg-films.info)

Girls' dance instructor Claudia Gambetti takes over the boy's gym class after gym teacher Martorelli breaks both his legs owing to one of his student's pranks. Soon both teachers and students are interested in learning more of Claudia's athletic dance moves. Director Fiorontori has made some debts betting on horses and wants Claudia to win a disco competition to balance the school budget, too. (imdb)

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)

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)

Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer (Mario Carotenuto) sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up (something like "The Hill", except here all the offenders are sex obsessed). On the ferry her wallet and papers are stolen and Edwige has to make a detour to the police station... by Chip_douglas (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)

A sultry new teacher ensures that school attendance spikes to an all-time high in this classic Italian sex comedy starring irresistible screen sirens Dagmar Lassander and Femi Benussi. And to think that staying after class used to be a punishment. When this teacher speaks, every boy in class listens with rapt attention. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

The commander of "the seagull", a tug boat heading for Spain, is a computer which is prone to making mistakes. This, combined with the fact that the crew includes four rather stupid italian sailors, is a sure recipe for disaster. The first blunder they make is to collide with a damaged motor-boat drifting about in the middle of the sea. However, the sailors don't mind at all when they find two beautiful girls on board. (movie-time)

Romolo, a lazy man who is bored with his marriage, leaves his wife and sets out to lead the life of a vagabond with his friend Orazio and a voluptuous nymphomaniac named Candida.

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent? (imdb)

Tired of a husband who keeps cheating on her, Gioia (Fenech) takes a holiday away from Rome, on the island of Ischia, where she wants to find a man to sleep with and thus take her revenge.

For her final thesis to get her degree in sociology a young woman goes under cover for three months as a prostitute. (10kbullets)

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

The story (taken from the tales of the 16th century Venetian author called RUZANTE) talks about a cow, the "vacca" of the title named FIORINA (actually there is a girl called in the same way but she's not so important in the story), that changes different owners (it's the same way of ANTHONY ASQUITH's THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE... in some way of course)... by rdarmini (imdb)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble. (imdb)

Comedy about a football champion who is afflicted by jealousy when he rejoins his girlfriend after a separation. (ftvdb.bfi)

Three friends remember the good old times of fascist Italy, when "He" (dictator Mussolini) ruled the country.

Totò, a painter, is summoned to Madrid by Eva and Raoul to run a copy of the Maja desnuda but is believed to play a camicia. Tentano thus defrauding a rich American who believes Montiel critic is convinced to buy a quadro. Dopo Totò series of mishaps and Montiel is damage produzuione counterfeits, but they end up in jail. (filmaffinity)

Gardenio, an old and unlucky artist, organizes little tours in small towns. By chance he discovers Caterina's vocal talent, hires her, and shortly after marries her. She turns into a true star but Gardenio, feeling useless, decides to seek success on his own. Finally his talent is understood, but when he finds out that Caterina had secretly financed the show... he thanks her publicly and the two return together! (movie-time)

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife? (imdb)

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)

Edwige Fenech plays the sexy private teacher of Franco (Alfredo Pea) who immediately falls madly in love with her. Franco tries and tries to seduce her by faking his own suicide. (imdb)

A very little and nice village in Italy, Middle Ages. A woman is under legal action for adultery, three young men trying to seduce three beautiful girls, one of them is the daughter of an unfaithful 'Madonna' (ancient Italian for lady) and another is a virgin scared about sex. The attempts to seduce the girls cross with the two lady's intrigues, but the goal is for all to have sex with others. (imdb)

Racconti Romani is a fast-paced comedy based on short stories related in the first person by men of the Roman working class. (worldcat)

Carlotta, a noblewoman in disgrace, accepts to marry Camillo, a rough service-station attendant, in order to inherit her uncle's fortune. There is a condition: Camillo must spend some time in a Swiss college to learn how to behave properly. (bfi)

A russian female basket-ball team arrives in Rome to face the american "White Angels", but after a taste of Western freedom, the athletes decide to desert the team. The girls each live different experiences, mostly romantic. Two of them actually marry a marquis and a communist in what is supposed to be a fake ceremony, but is not, complete with a Pope... (movie-time)

Sex comedy set in mediaeval Florence. (bfi)

Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation. (imdb)

The marriage of a couple, both of them architects, begins to break up when they are bogged down with too many children. (bfi)

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)

In this politically conscious Italian drama a woman's working-class husband becomes the prisoner of the Vatican after he commits political crimes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

A little boy sets out to find a mother of his own choice, having none of his own, and is helped by God. (bfi)

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life. (bfi)

The young widow of an ice-cream vendor is persuaded by the town mayor to stay in a small 'trullo' instead of leaving town. Though several townsmen show an interest in her, Maddalena remains true to the spirit of her late husband until she meets his double, flamboyant archaeologist Luigi Granini. (imdb)

Comedy about a confirmed bachelor who is only entitled to his mother's inheritance if he marries and has to convince his father that he is heading for the altar. (bfi)

Mario, a young professor of nuclear phisics, inflames a pupil of his. Unfortunately her father is in financial dire straits and the girl is about to marry a not very nice but very rich guy. Luckily enough her butler discovers a painting in the household by Michael Angelo which will pay for everything. (imdb)

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength. (imdb)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. (imdb)

Comedy about the misadventures of a country girl who travels to Rome to marry her fiancé. (bfi)

Story about a fickle teenager who runs two boys of the neighborhood a merry chase before she settles on an older man. (bfi)

Story of prostitute and her child who spends a holiday in the seaside. (bfi)

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)

Comedy Western about two pedlars on the run who are mistaken for brave sheriffs and by dint of this clear a city of bandits led by the Mayor. (bfi)

Just like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini it is loosely based on Petronius's work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. (wikipedia)

A young man is undecided about getting married. His friend, an experienced bachelor, constantly tries to dissuade him, warning him about the dangers of getting too attached to a woman.

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