Ruggero Maccari

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax. (imdb)

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away where he meets the unhappy unhealthy Fosca who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and tries to make him love her. (imdb)

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (depending on the age). (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)

The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life. (imdb)

This quirky story of a simple soul from an Alaskan mining town adrift in Chicago starts in a charming humorous way as Rocco finds himself cut off from his travelling companions and undertaking a series of increasingly bizarre and complex events which threaten and finally destroy his childlike friendliness and eternal optimism. (IMDB)

Anthology film about marriage and betrayal in the modern world.

The bordellos of Rome are closing down, and four working girls decide to plough their hard-earned cash into an out-of-town trattoria. They need the support of a shifty but powerful ex-client to get them started. The business takes off and they begin to believe they have a chance of a new kind of life, without having to sell their bodies. However, the shadow of their pasts is ever-present. (Channel4.com)

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer of 1962. They will spend two days together, meet both Roberto's and Bruno's family. (imdb)

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. (imdb)

How Funny Can Sex Be? is an eight-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.

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.

The plot involves poverty-stricken Felice and his friend, don Pasquale, masquerading as aristocratic relatives of a young woman in order to get her parents approval for a marriage to a young prince. (neac.eat-online.net)

"The New Monsters" -literally translated- is a collection of nine short films of Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, being three of each one...

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)

A young soldier, sent away from his lover is lodges with a colonel. Among the other lodgers is a mad woman who falls in love with him.

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. (imdb)

In this comedy, a guru's groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests. (allmovie.com)

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

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

The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom cuckoldry is a common practice, is seduced by one of them. At this point doubts and suspicions, like conscience, begin to plague him. (wikipedia)

Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means "free man," to his 80th birthday party. The film principally explores his relationships with younger brother Guilio, with wife Beatrice, and with her sister Adriana, whom Carlo loved as a young man (imdb)

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist. (imdb)

Totò, one of Italy's all-time great comedians, stars as a Neopolitan petty criminal named Don Felice... (imdb)

Since the IRS has ordered new taxes, all traders in the village are tormented. Only Torquato Pezzella, a wealthy merchant of rain does not give in to despair general. To escape the contributions it has offered a tax advisor, the very respectable Curto Hector, who is in reality an ignorant on the subject. Still, Pezzella that has so far managed to avoid the taxes through the valuable advice of his new partner.... (letterboxd.com)

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.

Don Felice, the mayor of Roccasecca, has been tricked by his nephew Ciccillo. Ciccillo has told his uncle that he is taking a medical degree in psychiatry when in truth he has been using his money for good times. Having twice wormed money from his uncle, Ciccillo again needs money to pay his gambling debts. He pretends that his boardinghouse is his clinic and the other tenants his patients. By accident Don Felice is frightened to find himself in the "asylum" alone with the "inmates."

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)

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)

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)

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody. (imdb)

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)

During World War II, American USO tours gave new life to Italy's native music-hall performers, as it gave them a livelier venue for entertaining both the local population and the incoming soldiers. This Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti, tells the story of two such performers, their ambitions and their struggles. (allmovie)

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)

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)

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)

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

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 on the subject of macabre humour. (bfi)

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

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

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)

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crashlands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers. (imdb)

A husband and wife are divided. He likes football, is in fact a referee, and so neglects her. She tries other men; he other women, and finally they discover that they love each other. (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 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)

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead. (imdb)

Four episodes satirising Italian women, their manners and their morals. (imdb)

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish. (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)

Theme tying four distinct characters together is that adultery is indispensable for a happy, lasting marriage. (bfi)

A sex-age bachelor attempts to seduce a young 17 year old student. He sets the trap with an engagement ring though certain he can unshackle the vows once he has seduced her. (bfi)

Sex comedy on the subject of wife-swapping. (bfi)

Comedy about a man (Tognazzi) who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's (Vitti) testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence. (imdb)

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

Police Inspector Pepe, urged by a few collaborators, is unwillingly forced to start some investigations about a murder which took place two years before and which apparently involved a well-to-do family in the town. (bfi)

Franco, the son of a pirate, does the boy at an inn owned by the aunt. It is admired by the stories and deeds of Ciccio, pseudocapitano Marina, actually a con man in debt. One day at the inn presents a pirate, recognizing in his son Franco dispersed over the years. The pirate, who in the meantime had been attacked by another pirate, Black Dog, confided to Franco to be in possession of the treasure map of Captain Flint, his mentor and friend. (it.wikipedia.org)

Dissatisfied with the low movement lost souls in Hell, Beelzebub solves send one of his demons to earth to sow discord among mortals. So choose Belfagor for such a task, and the charge, along with his servant Adramalek, to provoke a new war between Rome and Florence.

Giulio Ceriani (Vittorio Gassman) has a lovely wife, a close friend and a job. However, as soon as he figures a way of becoming rich he will put all those things in danger.

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

Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl. (themoviedb)

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection... (imdb)

In this 1954 comedy, siren Sophia Loren plays two roles: Cleopatra and the slave girl who doubles for her. Every night, the Egyptian queen beds the soldier who guards her door, but the price he pays is his life. So, when a Roman soldier (played by Italian comedy king Alberto Sordi) is placed on Cleopatra's detail but becomes smitten with her look-alike slave instead, romantic complications put a wrinkle on this strange tradition. (netflix)

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general. (imdb)

Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner. (imdb)

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

Biagio Solise loves working on the windows of Milan's skyscrapers but is overwhelmed on the ground by the tumult and pressure of crowded streets. He also earns money working as an extra at the La Scala opera. When a famous diva is murdered, he decides that he wants to be convicted of the crime, in order to become famous. Despite the fact that he is innocent, his frenzied improvisations put the police on trail and eventually imprison him. (FILMAFFINITY)

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.