Peppino De Filippo

When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (imdb)

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron... (imdb)

When their boss dies two clerks eagerly wait for the next one to arrive. Each one of them hopes to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to win him over causing lots of trouble and lots of misunderstandings. (imdb)

A municipal worker from the country goes to Rome to visit his cousin, leading to a series of big-city misadventures. (worldcat)

Political comedy starring old Italian favorite Toto

A retired con artist tells the story of how he went from being an actor to becoming a thief and of how he had to give it all up for love.

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)

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel. (imdb)

Two Italian friends emigrate to Berlin, but find themselves divided by Soviet and American tensions.

Our hero, Antonio, is the concierge at an apartment complex. He is about to be evicted from his place. A man dies and leaves him real engraved plates from the Italian mint that he had stolen years earlier after working for the government. (imdb)

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)

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)

Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing. (imdb)

A mandolin strummer, who makes a living serenading in small restaurants, becomes mixed up in mysterious murders. (bfi)

Comedy about the rivalry of two brothers in love and business during the Universal Exhibition in Rome, in 1911. (bfi)

A promissory note is passed from person to person in this warm-hearted satire. (worldcat)

Magistrate (Judge) Del Russo presides over four cases brough before him during a period of one day. "Adultery in 16mm" focus on Elena who brings her salesman husband to court on charges of abandonment where he springs surprise evidence involving her affair with her lawyer. In "The Priest and the Prostitute," Don Michele, a young priest, is charged with wrecking a pool room who claims he was robbed by Anna, a prostitute, and beaten by her pimp. (imdb)

A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis. (imdb)

This time the dynamic two have managed to get themselves locked up in a mental asylum and are trying to persuade the supervisor that their wives had forced them to dress up as clowns and ask for donations on the street to raise money for charity. The two were actually doing well until they decided to collect from passing car drivers and caused the most almighty traffic jam. It was then that they were cessied off to the looney bin... (movie-time)

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

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

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

Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco. He has, however, a daughter who studies in a college and thinks he is a rich industrialist. The girl falls in love with a rich boy and when her father tells her the truth about their financial situation she leaves her fiancee and refuses food. Luckily the boy's parents give their assent to the marriage all the same. (imdb)

The story of two cousins: one unattractive, desperately searching for the man of her dreams, and the other beautiful, but totally uninterested in sentimental affairs. However, it is the second who finds the right man, while the former is left searching. (bfi)

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

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life. (bfi)

Mario, a young professor of nuclear phisics, inflames a pupil of his. Unfortunately her father is in financial dire straits and the girl is about to marry a not very nice but very rich guy. Luckily enough her butler discovers a painting in the household by Michael Angelo which will pay for everything. (imdb)

A comedy about the Italian National Health System based on a doctor who owns a private clinic and manages it more like a con man than a follower of the Hippocratic oath. (imdb)

Tyrannised by his stingy wife Teresa, Antonio organises a perfect plan to have a good time for at least one night. With the complicity of the town barber, he stages a fake kidnapping and manages to get the ransom money from his wife. The deception is soon uncovered, not only by Teresa but also by Iganzio, the bandit whom Antonio pretended to be kidnapped by, who decides to kidnap Antonio for real. (wordcat)

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome to Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France, Ginette a widow with a four year old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move. Unfortunately for him his wife and petulant brother in law come to Paris too. He will have to decide between the two women. (bfi)

First of a series on a typical Roman family. (bfi)

A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail. (imdb)

Domestic comedy about a grandmother's attempts to prevent a young girl from marrying the boy she is in love with. (bfi)

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives. (imdb)

An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again. (imdb)

Adaptation of a Paola Riccora theatre piece for the screen, which features the three De Filippo siblings and a young Alda Vialli. Giovannino loses his job and is taken in by the family of his wealthy nephew. Whilst reduced to doing menial takes for the family, he is increasingly blamed for everything untoward. Ultimately, after one family development another family member is finally obliged to come forward with the truth.

Film adaptation of a three act comedy by Eduardo De Filippo. Ferdinando Quagliuolo takes over the management of a Lotto agency after his father dies. Despite his terrible luck, he still plays obsessively. When one of his employees, Mario Bertolini, gets lucky, he soon becomes fiercely envious, not knowing that Mario has been courting his daughter behind his back all along.

Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.

Two strangers meet at an apartment they both want to rent. After a little fighting they decide to solve the matter with a crazy idea.

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the direction of Don Cesar Pancarano of Rondo. For many years, Policarpo seeks a promotion and a raise that never came, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerome, the son of Don Caesar knows Celeste, the daughter of Polycarp, and falls for her. Policarpo see in that regard the solution to aspirations at work, and does everything in its power to make this relationship fruitful.

Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...

The barber Toni La Motta is engaged to Greta, the shop's beautiful manicure: being jealous, she often quarrels with clients who are too gallant. One of these, one day, reacts by hitting him with a punch and sending him to bang his head against the radio that is broadcasting the magazine "La bisarca". The barber loses consciousness and begins to dream. He is now in the shop, invaded by the waters of a new universal flood. With the girl he gets on the Bis-Arca, where animals of all species and a r

Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life.

Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart?

After WW2, a group of Italian soldiers languishing in a California POW camp is nostalgically reminiscing about the happy pre-war years while awaiting repatriation.

Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.

Carmine, butler and pygmalion to a starlet, gets herself a rich husband and gets rid of a broke suitor of hers.