Rodolfo Sonego

Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, they panic and become fugitives. Other victims of misfortune also become suspects, as the plot twists and luck and judgment desert everyone. (imdb)

Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia DeAngelis has been an invalid. When he disappears, she believes him dead: she leaves her bed and takes over his business, traveling to see clients. She discovers her husband's passions, his political writing, mistresses, and his indifference to the peasants on her family's land. She improves their lot, begins an affair with a young foreign doctor, and publishes her husband's writings... (imdb)

This time Bud Spencer and Terence Hill are priests selling coffee, and doling out hilarious fights and action.

A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children. Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps. At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end... (imdb)

Silvio is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement against Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena. He spends three months hidden on Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. (Wikipedia)

A wealthy American woman plays her annual game of cards with an impoverished couple in Rome.

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son. (imdb)

Comedy-drama about a Sicilian woman (Vitti) who, "dishonored" by her lover, goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him. (imdb)

An Italian fur merchant makes his first trip yo a large fur auction in Sweden, and his expectations contrast with the realities of what he finds.

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)

A police Inspector and his inept sidekick are sent to country village to investigate reported sightings of a flying saucer. The ship has brought a crew of female aliens who get caught up in a carnival while being chased by men. (eofftv.com)

The life of unemployed Otello Celletti gets completely turned around when he gets a job as a traffic policeman.

A newspaper vendor who dreams to be part of the high society, meets a real aristocrat, Il Conte Max, who decides to help him.

Agostino seems to be the irreproachable and even obtuse general secretary for the O.I.M.P., the organization for the defense of public morality, but you will find out he has a darker side.

The story of Gastone, a struggling theater actor and dancer of the 1920s who's also a small delinquent known to the police and constantly blames his bad luck on the great war.

The service-station attendant Giuseppe lives in Rome when he receives an invitation from his father to visit him in America. (imdb)

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. (imdb)

Gaetano is an old cabriolet driver who spent his life driving in the streets of Roma with his horse Nestore, for whom the cabriolet work is starting to be too heavy. So Otello, the owner of the cabriolet, decides to sell it to Cinecittà making Gaetano unemployed and forcing him to bring his old friend to a slaughterhouse.

Oscar Pettinari (Carlo Verdone) is a deluded young actor from the suburbs of Rome, who in spite of his sensitive character, lack of toughness and the appearance of a Teddy Bear, dreams of becoming the next Rambo, until a chance encounter with a savvy lawyer (Alberto Sordi) changes everything. ( by Paola Desiderio)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian land surveyor who has lived in Sweden for the past seven years, goes to his native country with his Swedish wife and children for his holidays. At the border he is however jailed for no apparent reason. He thus begins a nightmarish kafkian experience while he's moved from one prison to another, subject to any humiliation and violence. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)

The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law. Then he finds a job in a building firm. Only by chance Cavalli finds out that his salary is paid by his wife to keep him busy... Written by Piergiorgio Romani (imdb

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)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble. (imdb)

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)

During a police raid in Villa Borghese agent Antonio Caccavallo (Toto`) arrests Carolina amongst other prostitutes. However Carolina is innocent and she left home pregnant in fear of the future. Antonio is obligated to take Carolina back home but the trip is not as easy as he expects... (forzaitalia.com)

Mr. Nardi, who has expensive tastes and not a good nose for business, is constantly asking his rich wife Elvira for large sums of money! One day, sick and tired of this habit of his, she refuses to help! Driven crazy by his creditors, while he rejoices at the news of his wife's train crushed into the lake... she arrives home by car! Determined to kill her at all costs, as the only way out of his financial miseries.. (movie-time)

Short. An ageing woman and her final fling and safe return. (bfi)

Nothing is going right in the life of a man with a dismal marriage and financial problems, so he changes jobs and tells every woman he meets that he is single. (worldcat)

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

A timid but rich Italian emigrant living in Australia tempts a Roman prostitute, dissatisfied with her night life, over to Australia by sending her a photo of a handsome ex-buddy. When the girl finally arrives she insists on having no other partner than the person on the photo. (bfi)

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show. (imdb)

On a trip to America, a wealthy male chauvinist discovers the wonders of a trained household robot named Catherine who outperforms any of the disgruntled women back at home in Italy. (worldcat)

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

Four episodes satirising the relationship of man and wife. (bfi)

The stories of three different couples: 1- Il Frigorifero. [Monica Vitti, Enzo Jannacci] 2- La Camera. [Alberto Sordi, Rossana di Lorenzo] 3- Il Leone [Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti] (bfi)

Three episode film about the problems which face wives with their husbands. (bfi)

A middle aged Italian accompanies a colleague to America, and tries to marry an American woman so that he can stay there. (bfi)

A man who believes himself to be a liberal and understanding husband discovers tha he can't cope when his wife says she is attracted to another man. (bfi)

The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society? (imdb)

Sequel to il TASSINARO. A Roman taxi driver decides to take a holiday in America in order to stay with his son. However, he is forced to stay in America much longer than he anticipated when he witnesses a mob killing. Becoming a target himself, he goes undercover as a taxi driver. (bfi)

Story of prostitute and her child who spends a holiday in the seaside. (bfi)

"The Screen Test," functions as a prolog to the other two. Directed by Antonioni, it presents a view of Soraya on the night of her screen test for this picture. "Famous Lovers" casts Soraya as a married woman having an affair with a struggling writer, Harris. The final episode has her playing an executive on a trip to Rome who is entertained by Sordi, a gigolo hired by her travel agency. (KG)

The film, divided into four episodes, is satirical the topic of sex in Italy.. (wikipedia)

Film based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, about the morbid passion of a woman who is prepared to sacrifice the innocence of her daughter to preserve her relationship with her husband. (bfi)

Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life... (imdb)

This film tell the story (invented but based on the real situation) of a group of partisan near Genova during the nazi occupation of Northern Italy that have to recover some weapons in a factory (with the help of the workers) and the dilemma of a group of italian "Alpini" soldier (mountain special troops) that was in doubt if is better to follow the order of the nazi ally/occupants or to join the partisan Resistance and fight for the freedom of Italy. (imdb)

Just like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini it is loosely based on Petronius's work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. (wikipedia)

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda. (imdb)

Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost eighty years, accidentally meets Federica, a handsome young nurse. (imdb)

Fabio Bonetti has been married to Livia for almost 20 years. One day a private eye investigating on their neighbors, the Vitali family, by mistake starts filming and recording Livia's life. (imdb)