Mario Castellani

An Italian tragicomedy in which a carabiniere and a thief exchange roles in nazi-occupied Italy under allied raids

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl). (imdb)

The thief Tapioca (Totò) happens to meet Gaston home Ornano industrialist and his wife, Noris, who extorts money with incriminating letters. After discovering the blackmail Ornano arrests Tapioca. Eventually the three men form a society for the exploitation of compromising letters.

Rossellini's darkly comic satire showcases the great Italian comic Toto as a barber who is imprisoned for murdering his wife's suspected lover. After twenty years, Salvatore leaves the prison walls to find the world he once knew gone. His wife is dead, he encounters one deceitful person after another, and his family and friends are even more disloyal. Salvatore realizes he has no choice but to find a way back to prison where he feels certain he will be happier. (dvdbeaver.com)

After getting a woman (the Virtue) pregnant, a school teacher (the Man) tries to make her copulate with her rude husband, a ship Captain who's always traveling (the Beast). Based upon a novel by Luigi Pirandello.

Totò stars in this spoof of Cecil B. De Mille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands. Written by EndriX (imdb)

Totò Al Giro D'Italia is a black & white film in the Italian Neorealism genre about the 1948 edition of the Giro d'Italia, in which Professor Totò sells his soul to the devil in order to win the love of the bella Doriana. She agrees to marry him only if he can win the national bicycle race, calculating that this is an impossibility, but one stage after another he defeats all great cycling champions of that time (Coppi, Bartali, Schotte, Kubler, Bobet, Magni, et al).

This comedy shows how people shouldn't hurry to make serious things, (like getting married, for instance). In this movie, the "odyssey" of a rich-becoming man to find a wife who "helps" him to inherit a fortune is showed with great efficiency. The lots of problems that appear in an apparently simple task like searching for a wife to become rich shows this is not as easy as it may seem, and you can see there that money doesn't always bring happiness, until it's come. (Mr-JAFO)

The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus... Written by Piergiorgio Romani (imdb)

The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him. Fiore has a witness: a parrot! During his day of work in search of his stolen car, Saracino finds out the thefts of the custom officer Mastrillo, who tries to bribe him... (imdb)

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him. (imdb)

The British Empire needs to monopolise the exploitation of all the oil extracted from Kuwait reserves, and the head of the Intelligence Service entrusts this mission to the man-servant Totò. In order to achieve his aim, he must overcome a great many hilarious difficulties and eliminate all the spies of the other countries. But in the end, he succeeds and ends up back in Naples where he establishes a refinery.

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)

The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law. Then he finds a job in a building firm. Only by chance Cavalli finds out that his salary is paid by his wife to keep him busy... Written by Piergiorgio Romani (imdb

Totò and Pietro, his brother, make ends meet by living on their wits. Whilst being chased by the police, they steal a case from the station only to find a dead body inside which they decide to abandon in the country. During the car journey, they give a lift to two hitchhikers with an identical case; as a result of the obvious exchange, they break into the house were the two girls are staying and come across a group of dope smokers... (mediasetdistribution)

Antonio and Felice two experience swindlers - always afraid to get arrested by their school friend Malvasia - use the money to pay the college of Antonio's daughter, Diana. Ignoring his origin, Diana falls in love with Franco, who is not only one of her father's victims, but also the policeman's son! Love, humorism and an unexpected inheritance solve a situation that could have gotten out of hand... (movie-time)

Don Felice, the mayor of Roccasecca, has been tricked by his nephew Ciccillo. Ciccillo has told his uncle that he is taking a medical degree in psychiatry when in truth he has been using his money for good times. Having twice wormed money from his uncle, Ciccillo again needs money to pay his gambling debts. He pretends that his boardinghouse is his clinic and the other tenants his patients. By accident Don Felice is frightened to find himself in the "asylum" alone with the "inmates."

Escaping the clutches of despotic wife, an angry little man takes on the identity of a famous American detective and is forced to investigate a famous criminal nicknamed "Bluebeard". (negozioitalia)

Toto' a colori was the first Italian movie to be shot with a colour film, but the sensitivity was very low (6 asa!) so the actors had to act under a very strong lighting and high temperature. (imdb)

Three Explorers,Stanis, Spartaco and Iva are excited to hear that there's a strange creature, a kind of white ape man called Tarzan (Totò), who lives in heart of the jungle. Using Iva as bait they're able to capture him, but their excitement is rather curtailed when they discover that he's a pretty handy speaker of Italian. In fact, they discover that he is actually the son of a wealthy adventurer who accidentally left him in the jungle back when he was a child... (thewildeye)

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)

During a police raid in Villa Borghese agent Antonio Caccavallo (Toto`) arrests Carolina amongst other prostitutes. However Carolina is innocent and she left home pregnant in fear of the future. Antonio is obligated to take Carolina back home but the trip is not as easy as he expects... (forzaitalia.com)

Satire on the Cleopatra legend. (bfi)

1905. Aristide Tromboni and his down at heel company of actors are in search of scripts and above all food. In a small country town they get to know Professor Molmenti, who is anxious to have performed his dramatic play, Il ratto delle Sabine. (wolrdcat)

In Paris, in 1865, in an orphan-asylun everyone is an orphan. The girls, of course, the headmistress, the dog and the two watchmen, Gasparre and Battista: each of them is an orphan. Gasparre and Battista decide to look for an orphan's father so she can marry. They go to a chiromancer to seek advise and Gasparre finds out he is the son of a count... (imdb)

In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena.... (imdb)

1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for ... casting spells. 4) The discomfort of an over tight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the reluctant parents of the bridegroom to bless his union. (imdb)

A great cast of comic actors for five amusing episodes: a fast driving nun has an accident with a car full of communists. A prostitute sinks in a pond with her "officer-van" along with her dreams. A Broke and desperate man tries to get hit by a car to collect the insurance money. A fake policeman makes money by giving fines... (movie-time)

Policeman Fred is sent to inquire about a drug racket held in an ill-famed French night club. Pretending to be musicians, the cops are hired by the criminals and can spy the band from inside! The situation gets more and more complicated and the disappearance of a drug cargo puts Fred's life in serious danger... (movie-time)

The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi, a street musician. (imdb)

The comical and amorious escapades of three young Italian men. (wolrdcat)

Toto hiding from the forces of law and order hides in a barrel and finds himself on a pirate ship and becomes leader. (bfi)

Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time. (imdb)

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house. (letterboxd)

Man's ambition to follow in his father's footsteps to become a cuirassier. (bfi)

Series of music-hall sketches etc. (bfi)

Totò, a former butler, joins the Foreign Legion and is taken prisoner by a sheik.(bfi)

A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder. (imdb)

Toto has an accident while trying to commit suicide, goes to hell, visits beatniks, marries a Siamese twin, and has other misadventures. (scifilm.org)