Renato Pozzetto

Artemio is a farmer and he lives in a house with his mother, in the country. Maria Rosa lives in the village nearby and she is the only girl he ever saw. Unfortunately she very ugly and she wants to marry him. Artemio decides to leave everything and to go to Milan looking for something better. In the city he meets Angela and falls for her. But Milan and Angela are too much for a simple farmer. (imdb)

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)

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)

A series of slapstick sketches

A series of slapstick sketches

Luciano and Leonardo are life-long friends, who run a luxury garage in Milan...

Silvio Vasco and two policemen are on the trail of a gang of drug traffickers. Their investigations, which lead them from Rome to Milan and then Venice, culminate with the discovery that the head of the gang is an unsuspecting benefactor...

Ricky (Renato Pozzetto) has been a prosperous businessman, but lately things haven't been going so well, and he isn't sure why. Whatever the reason, he attempts suicide and is saved by Barabbas (Christian De Sica), a very peculiar man with the hereditary vocation of being a hobo... (All Movie Guide)

Ovidio Ceciotti is a teacher, he is plump and he is not a man of character. He is treated badly by his school-master, by his students, by Lidia, his girl and even by his dog. One day his twin arrives. He calls himself Ralph Benson and has a completely different character. He is impudent, genial, he is popular with women, he is not plump, he spent six months in a jail. Even the dog likes him more than Ovidio. Ralph plays in a bar with the beautiful Esmeralda. They will have to live together. (imdb)

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...

Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper. (imdb)

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times (imdb)

Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant. (imdb)

A rich manager, obsessed by the idea of becoming poor, decides to leave temporarilyhis nice house and his beautiful wife, and begin living like poor, homeless people.That way, he'll be more prepared if he'll become poor for real,someday. During thisperiod, he'll meet a beautiful, sincere girl and a true friend, and he'll have todecide in which way he should live his future life. (rottentomatoes)

A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man. (imdb)

Antonio lives in Laveno, on the shores of Lake Maggiore and has only one passion in life: the cinema

The movie is about a province Latin Lover, Arrigo, who, among many others, chases Pozzetto's wife. For a series of unlikely events, Arrigo ends up completely paralyzed in Pozzetto's bed. Pozzetto has to take care of him and his tortured by the jealousy. Pozzetto must keep secret the presence of Arrigo in his house. The funny part is when in the village people start to realize that something strange is going on... (imdb)

Franco Colombo (Renato Pozzetto) has always been passionate about flowers, lives in Varese doing gardening, maintained by Uncle Fortunato, owner of a firm of canned meat; the death of his uncle, becomes the new president and is responsible Advocate Company in order to avoid bankruptcy, to go to Rome to deliver 100 million into the hands of Mr corrupt ministry, an important order for supplies abroad...

Giorgio and Lucia are newlyweds and also have had the fortune to find one to house to a low price, but a curse rests...

The main character in this comedy-detective story is Riccardo Finzi. The apparently plodding, Sad Sack-type P.I. has just gotten licensed and arrives in Milan with high hopes, however high they are in his case, of launching his investigative career. A trip to a night spot lands him a place to live in, a nubile young woman, and a murder case when he finds out the next morning that the nymphet has been killed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Three episodes. First Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. Second. Guiseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. Third. Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman. (imdb)

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)

This is another comedy anthology from the team that brought us Zucchero, miele e peperoncino' (1980). It features the same cast, the same premise and the same courthouse. Three cases of misunderstanding and mischief follow: First up in court is Renato (Pippo Franco), who in order to enjoy the cheapest holiday possible, builds his own beach house. The trouble starts when a small group of nudists.... (twistedanger)

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)

Seasoned a love triangle with black humor and a bit of suspense, with Pozzetto, inconsolable habitue of a cemetery who falls in love with a young widow, equally assiduous in her visits to a neighboring grave (she was Agostina Belli). (wconnolly)

Two men becomes friends when they are among a dozen people attending a two-week survival camp in this amusing comedy. The group gathers in the Amazon rainforest, and Silvio (Renato Pozzetto) and Mario (Enrico Montesano) are the odd couple who are paired together to survive. Silvio is a banker, there on the advise of his psychiatrist, while Mario tries to overcome his insecurity after being abandoned by his wife. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

The movie is basically two unrelated comedic features: the first one features the travails of a man who stutters and tries to woo a woman he wants to date.The second features the wonderful Renato Pozetto as a gay man who lives with a partner, but finds himself falling for a woman, and not knowing how to tell his partner, who is prone to melodrama. (imdb)

Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published. (imdb)

Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence. (imdb)

Is a comic strip that first appeared in a Rome evening newspaper and was subsequently collected into numerous books: Bolognese cartoonist Bonvi recounts the vicissitudes of the Nazis at the front during the war with a fierce satire aimed both at the fanatical officers and the block-headed troops... (wconnolly)

Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a promotion. He is very down hearted and since he does not want to be a burden to his family he takes the place of the house maid. (imdb)

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...

Film about a priest and a pregnant girl on the search for the girl's boyfriend. (ftvdb.bfi)

Gianna Abastanza (Mariangelo Melato) is tired of men acting as though they can do everything better than women, so she enters the police force and dons a policewoman's uniform. By following the law more closely than her police comrades and superiors, she soon runs into trouble with them, though this does not prevent love from blossoming. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Set during the First World War, the film focuses on the men who try to avoid active service such as Barbasin, a singer, and Tomo, a coward. (ftvdb.bfi)

A comedy writer embarks on a high-seas adventure in the randy Italian comedy Tesoro mio (1979). Johnny Dorelli stars as Enrico Moroni, a struggling writer of comical fare. When money troubles cause lenders and law-enforcement officials to knock at Moroni's door, the impoverished scribe is forced to go treasure seeking on an island in the Indian Ocean. But Moroni's ability to find gold... (mrskin)

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)

Augusto, an entrepreneur from Lombardy, loves nature so deeply that he cannot bring himself to sell the park near his button factory. Seduced by Palmira, one of the workers, he marries her and has a son. The insatiable woman wants to get her hands on her husband's fortune, and with the help of a group of accomplices has him confined to a mental hospital. Little does she know that Augusto will find true love within its walls. (pardolive)

The widow Guerrino Castiglioni meets Chantal, a young photographic model, and soon marries her. But then he discovers that she was a paratrooper in Germany, and that she has changed sex: a transsexual, in fact. The family and Guerrino's mother start sniping at the situation, and the marriage is in crisis. They separate, but Guerrino can't live without his Chantal. (tg-films)

In this zany romantic comedy, a financially comfortable woman, bored with her life, follows the intriguing sound of a saxophone to its source, which is being played by Renato Pozzetto. Imagining him to be poor, she seeks to win his heart not only by her ardor, but by a judicious use of her checkbook. Happily, even though he is not impressed with her finances, he finds the prospect of a romantic alliance acceptable... ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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

After inheriting a faucet factory, Gianluca (Renato Pozzetto) does not have the skills to manage his workers. He is lucky he has the one-man sex machine Luigi (Teo Tocoli) around to show him how to do things. Indeed, so well does he learn his lessons that he leaves the factory behind in favor of wine, women and song. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Comedy in which a sophisticated mother's boy from Milan goes to teach at an elementary school in the Sicilian city of Catalina. (bfi)

Young Orlando (Renato Pozzetto) hasn't a clue what to do with himself or his romantic aspirations. Even though he is the heir to an industrial tycoon and has achieved the age of manhood, he cannot seem to come to grips with the opposite sex. Perhaps his romantic obsession with his mother (Françoise Fabian) has something to do with it... ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

The plot is based on the real life case of Leonarda Cianciulli who murdered 3 women between 1939 - 1940 and turned their bodies into soap. However, in the film version many details have been changed and interestingly the 3 female victims are all played by male actors in drag. (theitalywiki)

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

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)

The story traces the development of a love affair between a girl and a young Venetian boy over a period of time from 1935 to 1950. She becomes a star and he eventually disappears during the Russian campaign. (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)

Roberto is a civil servant, he is Roman, he is earning a low salary but Sonia is a beautiful and nice girl and she is his girl-friend. On the contrary Carlo Malinverni is a business consultant, he is Milanese, he is very rich and he is divorcing his wife in order to pay less taxes. When Carlo moves his office to Rome, he meets Sonia... (imdb)

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

7 episodes which tell about Italy during the nineties. Two newly elected MPs from different parties have an affair, two newly weds' temptations during their first night on their honeymoon, the very unlikely erotic adventures of two girls and a husband who leaves his wife in the hands of a masseur thinking he's a girl. (imdb)

Burro is the surname of a simple-mind boy. He lives in a little village in Emilia Romagna (north of Italy). He fallen in love for the picture of an actress (!) and transfers his love to every girls he meets. More, he is orphan and is afflicted with his father figure. (imdb)

What a lovely surprise tells the story of Guido (Claudio Bisio), romantic dreamer and a professor of literature in high school, whose life falls apart when buy the HIS girlfriend, with whom he lives for years, it leaves for another man. Paul (Frank Matano) - Its a former student listless become a physical education teacher - And His best friend and Fara everything to help him to exit from the crisis.

On the eve of his wedding trip (destination Sanremo) Alfredo Riva learns that he had won a contest of "Playmen" whose prize is a five-day vacation in Jamaica together, day and night, with the beautiful playmate Christine. (imdb)