Paolo Villaggio

Based on Paolo Villaggio's book "Fantozzi", which is popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year (imdb)

Tuscany, August 1944: the Allies have just entered Florence, Italy is devasted by the war, and the people are hungry. "Dieci", who claims to have been a boxer and a manager, gathers a group of young men in order to organise boxing matches to get something to eat... (imdb)

The elfin, irrepressible and very popular Italian comic Roberto Benigni and the similarly popular Paolo Villaggio star in this, the last of celebrated director Federico Fellini's films. The film's dreamlike story follows the meanderings of the moon-struck (or lunatic) Salvini (Benigni). (All Movie Guide)

The film starts where L'armata Brancaleone has ended. Brancaleone da Norcia (again played by Vittorio Gassman) is a poor but proud Middle Ages knight leading his bizarre and ragtag army of underdogs. However, he loses in a battle all his "warriors" and therefore meets the Death's incarnation... (Wikipedia)

A reworking of the premise of La grande guerra in a Mexican Revolution setting. (findarticles.com)

Three eccentric adventurers in the Wild West come into possession of an outlaw's gold. They soon find themselves blamed for the robbery and are imprisoned. Soon they are sprung from their jail by a fourth member and then are tracked down by the real outlaws wanting to reclaim the gold. (imdb)

An absurd "Western" set in Paris following Custer, Buffalo Bill, Custer's boss, General Terry and a white woman-exploiting Indian scout.

Paolo Villaggio takes his Fantozzi-based humour and creates a more mature version of him, simply called Robbie, also referred to as "Robin", "Robi", "Robbi", or "Rob". Robbie is a rich and wealthy man who is married to a woman called Magda. One day, they decide to go on holiday. Magda suggests via ferry, despite the fact that Robbie HATES sea travel. He suggests via aeroplane, but Magda has a fear of heights. During a routine emergency training exercise, Robbie accidentally takes it seriously... (imdb)

A comedy about the adventures of 5 firefighters.

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

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)

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

Summer in Rimini, where a lot of crazy things are a bound to happen.

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...

A teacher from Northern Italy lands a post in a small town in the South.

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.

Antonio has always had problems with his incisors: they are huge, impossible to hide and embarrassing. It takes a woman, Mara - who he left his wife and children for - to crack both incisors with a glass ashtray during a fight brought about by jealousy: Antonio is convinced she's having an affair with hers dentist! Antonio's tongue instinctively touches and investigates his raw and bleeding gum and when his saliva mixes with the blood, he remembers his childhood.

Albert and Angelo meet and become friends in a hospital's recovery room. Just outside, life seems so changed, so that, always aware of every heartbeat, they become indispensable to each other.

Matteo is a tallented mathematician who works in the marketing department of telecommunication company. He don't likes his job, his girlfriend left him, and he have no money to pay a flat rent. It seems impossible to make thing go better, but as mathematician he knows - impossible is inevitable.

Due to her mother's death Heidi is given into her grandfather's custody, who is living in the Alps, and soon Heidi frats with Peter. After some time she has to return to her aunt's house in Berlin, where she doesn't feel very well, as she got used to the idyll of the mountains. Written by Moritz Muehlenhoff

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.

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses. (imdb)

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.

If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and son and reaches a school full of terrible kids. Obviously he is the only adult and the worse student. Learning English hasn't been never so hard. Written by 1felco (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)

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"

In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen.

A modern-day descendant of the original Dr. Jekyll works for a ruthless multinational company. In the basement of his London townhouse, he discovers his antecedents famous potion. Unfortunately, it has a terrifying effect - it turns him into a nice person!

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)

3 episodes set in Montecarlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)

Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde." (imdb)

After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her. Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia (imdb)

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance? by 1felco (imdb)

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Uno: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Due: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Tre: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between... by Il Tesoro (imdb)

On the thresholds of the third millennium the Megaditta employees don't have anymore right subjection towards the heads, so the Megapresident proposes to cloning the accountant Fantozzi. Came back to do everything possible in his old repertoire of flattery, our hero gains a prestige charge: to mind the black sheep of the family, the Megapresident's lastborn. (raitrade)

Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation with a magnificent girlfriend but suddenly he is ordered off to Canada in order to sign an important contract. At the airport Colombo accidentally gets on a plane that flies in a direction directly opposite to Canada - to Bankgok.

Raccà, a businessman on the edge of bankruptcy, plans to swindle an insurance company by sinking his yacht, at present anchored in a Moroccan port. The operation is to be carried out by his submissive brother-in-law Zappi, who takes along a life boat for him and the would-be sea dog, Bigazza. The two arrive in Morocco, undergo a series of misfortunes in the desert... (mediasetdistribution)

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)

...Emanuele (Johnny Dorelli) wealthy businessman fleeing from the law, and Gino (Paolo Villaggio) a poor, doltish cabbie driving him all over Europe. Emanuele has a suitcase full of documents that could convict several well-placed people of serious crimes if the papers were made public. He keeps them as he runs away from the police and tries to disguise himself as a female -- his "sister" -- who Gino romances... (Rovi)

Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations...

This is a sad little comedy really worth watching. The story of count Alfredo AKA Didino (little Alfred) and his bloodsucker mother countess Mafalda has a good way to satirize the mother-son relationship in Italy. The main characters are played by Paolo Villaggio and Lila Kedrova, who are perfectly cast to display the grown man who in fact is still a little boy and the domineering matron... by Massimiliano Misturelli (imdb)

Comedy concerning a humble bank teller Arturo De Fanti, who finds himself unable to maintain his country house. His wife agrees to their taking in his mistress, but her cabaret earnings fail to balance the family budget. They offer a place to the wife's lover... (ftvdb.bfi)

Giacomo leaves his wife and family to go and live alone. (worldcat)

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

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles. (imdb)

Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate each other but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. One day the old owner sells the restaurant to a wealthy industrialist, who must decide whether to keep it or turn it into a furniture showroom. During a last luncheon for the new owner the waiters will have to prove their worth to save their jobs. (imdb)

"Geremia is a smuggler who sneaks cigarettes and chocolate across the border between Switzerland and Italy. His brother-in-law Augusto, a municipal guard, draws him into a plot to smuggle a person across the border, but their efforts collapse when the illegal immigrant is caught and falls to his death in a ravine. Geremia and Augusto discover that the dead man was also transporting two billion lire in his suitcases, which he was supposed to deposit in a Swiss bank... (All Movie Guide)

Set in the mountains of Northern Italy around the turn of the century. Colonel Proco, a retired military man, has inherited a magical forest which he intends to manage until his young nephew comes of age. The only condition is that he must respect the Old Woods and the trees which are inhabited by genies, but Proco plans to cut down the trees and sell the wood. (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)

The story, recounting the traversies of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping/ransom plot, is paper-thin and little more than an excuse to show "exotic" locales. (wiki)

Series of plays written by Sergio Citti, David Grieco. (bfi)

Farce: a rustic, Agostino, abandoned as a child, sets out for Rome to track down his parents in the company of a saw-dust magician Armando. After a series of unhappy incidents in the city, they finally separate. (bfi)

The chronicles of Gino and Tino, two raggedy workers living in one of the poorest suburbs of Rome.

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. (imdb)

W Gli Sposi (Just Married) is a romantic comedy set both in Italy and the United States. The story follows the adventures of Maria, an aristocratic Italian woman who, together with her brother-in-law, travels from Milan to a small rural town in Georgia for her son's wedding. She will find herself in a reality made of people who work the fields and live a simple life. (imdb)