Nino Manfredi

Lorenzo, a milanese astrophysicist, has recently inherited a country house in Sicily and has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts his job with the help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be very slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them and finds out that Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first he's very angry but then his good heart prevails.

Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life. (imdb)

Four generations of a family live crowded together in a cardboard shantytown shack in the squalor of inner-city Rome. They plan to murder each other with poisoned dinners, arson, etc. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery. (imdb)

An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement. (imdb)

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)

Anthology film about marriage and betrayal in the modern world.

Joaquín (Alfredo Landa) comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galápago (Nino Manfredi), who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquín takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galápago as Federico García Lorca. (Imdb)

Italian minstrel Campanelli follows a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but fails to prevent him being taken. Campanelli tells the fantastic story of a Dutchman to his son, who will eventually follow his fathers footsteps. (Sid Snot)

Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments... (All Movie Guide)

The naive countryside girl Adriana, who dreams of a career as a star in Rome, is not an escapist or introvert; on the contrary, she tries her best to socialize and befriend people but the results are most disappointing and frustrating. People just ignore her, use her, make fun of her, exploit her body and her good intentions. Nobody is taking her seriously.

A meek book-keeper (Vittorio) brings on his squalid life, which is interrupted when he becomes friend with a policeman (Sauro). Vittorio is introduced to gun shooting, and appears to be very gifted. This fact gives a shake to his dull existence, but when he gets in trouble with gangsters, he'll regret the past. (imdb)

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)

Alex is Finnish and married to an Italian who works as a taxi driver in Berlin. One night in his taxi come two men with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by gangsters whose money was stolen. During the shooting, they get killed, and he must get rid of their bodies. (Written by Karlo)

"Let's Talk About Men" is a four-part episode film, all of which feature the very versatile Nino Manfredi, an actor well-known in Italy but remembered in the United States primarily for "Bread and Chocolate." The film is a sort of follow-up to the 1965 "Let's Talk About Women," directed by Ettore Scola and starring Vittorio Gassman in similar comic vignettes. (imdb)

Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful his situation. (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)

In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, suspect him to be the inspector and a very important member of the Party. The misunderstanding leads to a number of equivocals... (imdb)

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time? (imdb)

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 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 guys from "I soliti Ignoti" strike back.

A powerful and mysterious voice from the skies of Naples announces the coming of Doomsday and the characters amongst the citizens react and prepare themselves for the end.

In this comedy, two Yankee con artists pose as tourists visiting scenic Naples. There they intend to rob an old church. Before pulling the caper, the two enlist the aid of a local criminal. The theft succeeds, but afterwards the crooks begin double-crossing each other. Murder and mayhem ensues as one American murders the other and then heads for the airport dressed as a nun. "Her" loot is, in turn, captured by the Italian crook and his friend. (allmovie.com)

A delegation of Italian movie makers go to Argentina to attend to a film festival.

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. (imdb)

A young man whose obsessive lifelong devotion to St. Eusebie has caused him to forego romance and a social life. After a sexual liaison with Delia Boccardo, he realizes what he's been missing in life and does a 180-degree turn into atheism! But when his Godless mentor Lionel Stander insists upon taking last rites when he dies, the befuddled Manfredi has no idea where he stands. (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)

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada... (imdb)

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge to investigate on a fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed...

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)

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile'. Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso'. Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance.. (imdb)

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

Three comedy episodes. UNA GIORNATA DECISIVA - A company executive tries to seduce an old flame unsuccessfully. IL COMPLESSO DELLA SCHIAVA NUBIANA - Ambitious politician tries to suppress his wife's past. GUGLIELMO IL DENTONE - Ambitions of an aspiring TV announcer. (bfi)

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

A family melodrama set against the history of Garibaldi's attack on Rome and the ensuing separation of church and state. (bfi)

A satirical expose of Roman aristocracy today. (bfi)

A series of vignettes that take place in the Trastevere, the bohemian quarter in Rome, featuring the neighborhood and its inhabitants. (worldcat)

Comedy, thriller. Sasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder mystery when Don Michelle, a building contractor involved in a number of housing scandals hires Iovine to find his daughter who has disappeared with incriminating documents. (bfi)

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

Film picturing several sexually disturbed characters, one a publisher who sees all women in the nude, a maniac assassin, a timid clerk who believe he is a woman, etc... (bfi)

Sentimental comedy of a love affair between a barber and a factory girl set in the Italian provinces. (bfi)

Murder mystery about three couples who are involved in the murder of a wealthy woman.

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)

Francisco, a Brazilian son of Italian immigrants, is saved from drowning by Lucia, a Neapolitan girl and falls in love with her. Francisco has to go back to Brasil but promises Lucia he will come back and marry her. Incredibly enough however Lucia's father is in prison because he killed Francisco's uncle in a row twenty years before and the wedding seems doomed to fall through... (imdb)

Famous Italian writer Moravia is told a story set during WW2: Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara. The poor girl is however ruthlessly pursued by Greta the officer's German girlfriend... (imdb)

Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer. The youth however gives the money to a dishonest girl he's in love with who gives it to her delinquent boy-friend. But when everybody seems to be in trouble because of his behaviour Marco... (imdb)

Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, feeling betrayed, has Marco imprisoned. During a battle Marco proves however his loyalty to his friend, who falls unfortunately deadly wounded. (imdb)

Story of a humble official of a totalitarian state who visits Italy and discovers that the situation and the people are very different from what he has been taught to believe. He decides never to return to his country. (imdb)

The film is about some youths' love stories: Franco and his hairdresser girlfriend Adriana, Otello another hairdresser who is hopelessly in love with Adriana. The youths usually meet in a restaurant whose owner, Ines, seduces Franco making Adriana very jealous. In turn the girl decides to accept Otello's courting. (imdb)

Comedy narrating the adventures of a group of Police officers. (bfi)

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end. Among the hotel guests Carletto, who wants to go to Rome and become an actor and when summer ends and holidays are over we find that Carletto has not renounced his dream: he boards a coach and leaves Corniolo ready for adventure in the big city. (imdb)

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice. All the the "Felices" are questioned by the colonel. (imdb)

Carmela defies her father who wants her to marry Baron Prospero and sleepwalks every night to Toto's room. (imdb)

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)

Semi-burlesque concerning the captain of an Italian fruit freighter who is suddenly drawn into a series of war-time adventures. (bfi)

Romantic adventures of a handsome Venetian gondolier. (bfi)

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it. (imdb)

Comedy of the havoc brought to the marriage of a provincial doctor when he takes aphrodisiac pills. (bfi)

Eros on the rampage in three delightful sketches concerning love and sex...or sex and love? (imdb)

Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover. (imdb)

Film in three episodes: Cocaine on Sunday the professor a businesswoman, Studies in frustration. (bfi)

Film in three episodes on the subject of macabre humour. (bfi)

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

A journalist undertakes an enquiry into human selfishness. (bfi)

Loving Too Much is a Cardinale Sin... (imdb)

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

To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover. (imdb)

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

Comedy: a lawyer is at grips with his contesting son. In the end, he is a conte stator himself, and sends his son to work in his place, giving himself up to a l ife of "dolce far niente".

A man covets another man's wife. (worldcat)

Sandro is suffering from an identify crisis, his wife Laura has inherited a fancy bookshop in Venice and her husband has difficulty adjusting. In order to revive his interest in their marriage Laura disguises herself as a local streetwalker and has an affair with him. (bfi)

Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers. (imdb)

Film recounts the story of the life of Pontius Pilate. (imdb)

The adventures of two derelicts. They are prisoners in a battleship, then, after a mutiny, they succeed to become officers. They leave the boat and start to drift all around the Spain with the mere goal to reach something to eat. A prostitute could set their life. (imdb)

A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby is born, Alberto must repay his father for every expense from his own birth until he left home. It's a family tradition, virtually a family curse. With little money in hand, he jumps on a train to Italy, the "Alberto Express," to return to his father. ... (imdb)

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome. (imdb)

Set in 1966 in the small port town of Sete, Mima, aged 12 and her sister, who are Italian and from a Calabrian family, live in France with other members of the family. However, one day Mima witnesses her beloved grandfather being taken away by two men, and later he is found dead. She discovers that he was killed because of a long-running family feud with the mafia... (bfi)

Childless city folks, Francesca and Pierpaulo, buy a farmhouse near Sienna and settle in for the country life. He writes thrillers, she seems unfulfilled. When she learns that neighbors haven't seen their son, a doctor in Africa, for several years, she offers to care for their aged parents. Paulo is not pleased, but the old couple moves in with them, and a series of skirmishes break out between Paulo and the old man... (imdb)

Historical drama. In 19th century Rome, Cecilia, an innkeeper, is famed for the dish she cooks for the guests known as Carbonara, which is also the name given to the revolutionaries who frequent Cecilia's inn and who belong to the secret society of the Carbonari, intent on uniting Italy as a republic. Cecilia finds she must act to save the life of an ex-lover, Zaccaria, who is one of those taken prisoner, before he too is killed. (bfi)

The stories of the people who travel from other parts of Italy to one particular trattoria in Rome. (worldcat)

Alessio Mirti is a young, extroverted painter who tries to have success with his artwork. He lives with Joy Berti, a young woman of 32, a friend from childhood. Joy is very attracted to a TV program called "Magic For You", an esoteric ... (filmitalia)

Attempted documentary on courting habits. (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)

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

Paolo and Maria are two primary school teachers and they love each other, but cannot have a child. (imdb)

Little Bee Julia is just born but already curious of the world. She's a rebel feeler and a little bit lazy, she doesn't feel like working as her sisters, so she asks her mother, the Queen ... (imdb)

Gros-Câlin (Italian: Cocco mio) is a 1979 French-Italian comedy film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Rawson and starring Jean Carmet and Nino Manfredi. It is loosely based on the novel with the same name by Romain Gary (wikipedia)

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