Neri Parenti

Massimo Colombo attends the eighth grade for the umpteenth time, has a lot of friends with whom to play ball, cuddles stuffed animals while taking refuge in bed during thunderstorms, and remains indifferent to the female sex; everything would be normal, except that he has 42 years. The man is not ill or retarded, but is simply suffering from Peter Pan syndrome...

Dalmazio, Amalio and Egisto Siraghi are three cousins who don't know each other and have the worst luck with their jobs.

Comic adventures of a wacky band of firefighters

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)

After a long period of rest, two bumbling criminals meet in a luxury villa, to steal a wonderful treasure

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)

Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house within three days, or otherwise his boss will fire him. Mister Filini comes to him, but he asks the impossible, a house with at least five bathrooms for a few thousand dollars. Incredibly, they find a house, a castle in Transylvania which happens to be own by a count Vlad...

Aldo, a former water polo champion, now lives in a wheelchair due to an automobile accident. Vittorio lives on small scams. The two meet each other by chance and various misadventures lead up to the casino of San Remo where Aldo finds Petrilli, the man responsible for his car accident...

Piero (Ludovico Fremont) and Marco (Emanuele Auspicious) are two young military students on leave for 14 days, dreaming of going on holiday in Rio (ilcinemaniaco.com)

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.

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 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)

A italian remake of the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Desperate to distract his fifteen year-old daughter from her dream of becoming a scantily clad dancer on television (a 'letterina') and so bag a footballer husband, widower and Carabiniere General Enrico Ombrone takes her to spend Christmas in Egypt.... (worldcinemadirectory)

Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem. (imdb)

Paolo, Fabio and Ciro are three carabinieri who manage to mess up a delicate police operation while chasing a petty thief. As a punishment they are all sacked and find they have joined the ranks of the unemployed. They are all professionals but the openings available to them are few and far between so they decide to become bodyguards...(filmitalia)

Johnny is a nebbishy cook in a luxury Italian hotel who spends his spare time at the local disco (subtly named John's Fever) drinking oversized glasses of wine and staring from afar at the club's lovely DJ, Illona. His disco-obsessed friends want Johnny to stop being such a downer and introduce himself to Ilona but his shyness and complete inadequacy on the dancefloor put a stop to this. (cinematicobsessive)

A middle-aged man's relationship with a young model is questioned by his daughter, who's dating an older man herself. (imdb)

On the eve of the Christmas vacations, Ranuccio, Giorgio and Paolo Ranuccio'son , share a blow from fate: all three are left by their respective wives and partners; and all three fall into the same deep depression.Giorgio takes refuge with the man who has been his best friend for 20 years, Mario, who is leaving for Miami to join his ex-wife Kelly and daughter Stella, who is graduating from college... (filmitalia)

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)

Neri Parenti directs this sketch-based movie about Italy's famously obsessive soccer fans. In one segment, a doctor forbids his son to marry the daughter of a pilot because he supports a rival team. In another, a Milanese cabby installs a satellite dish in his taxi only to have it co-opted by pushy Roman fans... (Rovi)

A comedy about a group of people flying to Amsterdam. (worldcat)

This Italian comedy takes an affectionate look at a montley group of free-lance photographers desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity, with a host of Italian TV personalities appearing as themselves. (imdb)

Comedy. Two disparate characters - a judge and a conman meet up in India at Christmas. (ftvdb.bfi)

Bartoloni from Milan exchanges apartments with his colleague from Rome and moves toa new place. And everything could be good, if not unexpected trouble with which he will have to face... (themoviedb)

A rental car shop assistant who dreams of the jet-set is mistaken for the son of an industrialist and invited to embark on a luxury boat cruise. (worldcat)

Lillo and his wife Barbara find themselves in New York for a romantic holiday.

Anthology movie divided into three segments.

Anthology comedy film based on astrology, consisting of five episodes.

Three comedic and intertwined episodes. (imdb)

A comedy about chefs.

Carlo and his second wife Susanna meet Giorgio, Carlo's brother, with his wife Marta, who is also Carlo's first wife. (imdb)

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

At Christmas a group of characters moves to Cortina d'Ampezzo to spend the winter holidays. (imdb)

Paolo Cioffa, as Christmas approaches, is ready to leave on a cruise with his mistress Magda Venni, freed by his wife Francesca Zanchi and his son Federico, who is about to go skiing. (imdb)

Carlo, a broke gigolo, descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding. (imdb)

A scoundrel's mission to escape his family and remarry on Mars is scrubbed when a mishap with a black hole turns his son into an old man. (Imbd.com)