Nanni Loy

The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war... (imdb)

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them. (imdb)

The guys from "I soliti Ignoti" strike back.

The film tells the story of some of the young inmates of the reformatory Nisida to Naples , committed to building a musical theater under the guidance of actor Fortunato Assante. (wikipedia)

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)

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)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian land surveyor who has lived in Sweden for the past seven years, goes to his native country with his Swedish wife and children for his holidays. At the border he is however jailed for no apparent reason. He thus begins a nightmarish kafkian experience while he's moved from one prison to another, subject to any humiliation and violence. 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)

In back-to-back stories that are unrelated to each other except through a few shared stabs at sexual and social morés, director Nanni Loy and the two featured stars (and co-writers) Renato Pozzetto and Nino Manfredi have fun with some "taboo" themes. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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

Nothing is going right in the life of a man with a dismal marriage and financial problems, so he changes jobs and tells every woman he meets that he is single. (worldcat)

Episode film., satirising aspects of life in Italy. (bfi)

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

A wife asks a friend to look for her missing husband. The friend discovers that the husband had led a double life and was involved in the criminal underworld and running a clandestine betting ring. (bfi)

Set in Naples. A series of situations show up a town which is plagued by bad administration, the Mafia and a self-serving mentality. (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)

In a church in Turin a priest is killed by a bomb during the homily. Police Commissioner Santamaria is investigating the case and at first he turns his attention to the Turin underworld, even if the track seems to be that of the industrial world. Adapted from a novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.