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A man is living happily on an island with his family, growing bananas. When a local mobster with an eye on man's property tries to take it from him, he must go to the town for the first time to get some help. (imdb)

The action comedy Piedone Lo Sbirro concerns a police officer who goes to great and unusual lengths to put some nasty drug dealers behind bars. (All Movie Guide)

Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell where oil is and lots of criminals are interested in it. (imdb)

Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department. (imdb)

Six short films. "What are the clouds" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Totò is a puppet painted green is thrown ina landfill with a second puppet (Ninetto Davoli) at the endof a play. Will they still find a reason for watching an extraordinarily magical sky. "Monster of Sunday" Directed by Steno starring Totò.Antonio De Curtis is a monster obsessed by 60's youths with long hair... (antoniodecurtis.org)

Beniamino and his family have lived in a school from the end of World War II. But five years have passed and they are compelled to move. In Rome, however, it is difficult to find an apartment. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but in the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and they flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Last they find a fine and large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people too. (Baldinotto da Pistoia)

Fabrizi plays Bottoni, a detective who has been given three months to bring Esposito to justice. Deciding to bore from within, Bottoni ingratiates himself with Esposito's warm-hearted family. He finally meets his prey at a colorful family get-together. The men discover that they're kindred spirits. But this does not dissuade Bottoni's determination that the law must take its course. (allmovie.com)

In this Italian crime drama, Bertone (Enrico Maria Salerno) is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full. (allmovie.com)

An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. (imdb)

After getting a woman (the Virtue) pregnant, a school teacher (the Man) tries to make her copulate with her rude husband, a ship Captain who's always traveling (the Beast). Based upon a novel by Luigi Pirandello.

Ugo, Raimondo and Marcella, are a trio of unsuccessful actors who specialize in crime shorts which are never seen. While they are rehearsing a proposed short in front of a producer in a boarding-house bedroom, they are seen through the window by Arturo, who takes Ugo and Raimondo as real killers and Marcella as their victim. (imdb)

During the WWII Italians and English occupy alternatively a village between the Albanian and Grecian borders. It happens so often that, not only they use the same Hotel (the Iris) as headquarters, but also they find the time to build up a kind of friendship relation. In fact the two colonels, the Italian Col. Di Maggio and the English Henderson save each other their life. (imdb)

Nando is a young italian in the 1950s who loves the american way of life so much that he's willing to do anything to go to the USA.

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)

Ercole Pappalardo (Totò), married, five sons, lives with only dream to be upgraded from his current position in the post department. Everithing goes wrong, he accidentally spits on the minister's face, he insults him trough a parrot (!), and finally they discover he has no titles to fit his current position. After all this tragicomic events he takes a definitive decision: he will die to communicate from the afterlife the lotto numbers to his wife! Written by 1felco (imdb)

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)

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)

The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus... Written by Piergiorgio Romani (imdb)

Few other Italian movies have as many enthusiastic fans as this low-budget movie of the 70's, displaying two of the best Italian comedians (Gigi Proietti and Enrico Montesano)in the characterization of two horse races-ill who try to earn money as they can, only to lose them at horse races the same day. Until they decide to make a big deal...frauding an important horse race... (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)

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)

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!

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)

It started in bed and ended in the gutter!" Sal Lococco struggles with his small income from a gas station. A limo full of gangsters pulls in and they demand that Sal fly to Italy and kill Nick Manzano, an enemy of "the Don". If not, they will torch his station and slay his family.

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...

A female journalist conducts an enquiry into man's ideal erotic adventure. (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

Toto' a colori was the first Italian movie to be shot with a colour film, but the sensitivity was very low (6 asa!) so the actors had to act under a very strong lighting and high temperature. (imdb)

Comedy of manners based on a play by Aldo de Bendetti. An unhappy princess married to a man only interested in breeding race horses persuades her bodyguard, Diego to act as her lover to arouse her husband's jealousy. Problems arise when Diego's girlfriend arrives. (ftvdb)

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

Totò, a painter, is summoned to Madrid by Eva and Raoul to run a copy of the Maja desnuda but is believed to play a camicia. Tentano thus defrauding a rich American who believes Montiel critic is convinced to buy a quadro. Dopo Totò series of mishaps and Montiel is damage produzuione counterfeits, but they end up in jail. (filmaffinity)

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 police commissioner and a political activist join to investigate the suspicious death of a playboy prince. (imdb)

A surgeon convinces a young thief to get a plastic surgery to resemble a rich man... with the intention of taking possession of his great wealth. The young man accepts, but the operation makes him look like a popular bandit! Problems and misadventures give way to dangerous misunderstandings until... the doctor and the thief find a perfect hiding place: a rich lady hires them... (movie-time)

A comedy drama about a troupe of third-string variety-act performers who tour Italy's provinces putting on shows in decrepit movie theatres. (worldcat)

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)

"An Italian man is discovered to have the same elements in his blood as a monkey. American scientists believe this will make him the perfect candidate to be sent into space. However there are complications with German spies and aliens from another planet"--Container. (worldcat)

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

Anna wants to improve her marriage to sculptor Marco but ends up having an affair with her new teacher Antonio as well. While performing a careful balancing act alternating between her two lovers, she becomes pregnant and is, not unsurprisingly, unsure by whom. Therefore she goes to a weekend retreat on her own. Marco and Antonio meet, having both come to the train station to say goodbye to Anna and immediately hit it off... (imdb)

Sicilian shoe salesman, Rosario, escapes to Copenhagen from his home office in Milan. There he meets and marries a young university student who innocently stars in an 8mm porno film .... (bfi)

A russian female basket-ball team arrives in Rome to face the american "White Angels", but after a taste of Western freedom, the athletes decide to desert the team. The girls each live different experiences, mostly romantic. Two of them actually marry a marquis and a communist in what is supposed to be a fake ceremony, but is not, complete with a Pope... (movie-time)

Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation. (imdb)

Scotland Yard commissioner, Green, is sent to France to investigate a series of crimes committed by the elusive Dorellik. (bfi)

War-time comedy, with music. A young girl, a young professor and an American captain try to escape from occupied Florence to Allied lines. (bfi)

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

Three men consider selling their soul to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman. (imdb)

Cloak and dagger epic of the time of the French Revolution. (bfi)

Comedy, about the cases which come up before a young magistrate, who is indulgent towards those he has to judge. (imdb)

Don Celeste, one day during Carnival, is cycling along a lane in the open country when he is attacked by three masqueraded girls. Two of them hold him down while the third, the one dressed up as a devil, rapes him. The priest should report the fact to the police, but the bishop, in order to avoid scandal, with tones that savour more of an order than of advice, suggests that he investigates the matter alone. Thus his investigation begins.. (filmexport)

The plot of the film continues in parallel, three stories all under the hot climate of the Rio's carnival. The film uses extensive landscape shots that Rio de Janeiro is rich, and some sequences made ​​taking pictures of the carnival in 1962. There is some interior view of the famous Copacabana Palace hotel, where two-thirds of the film's characters stay during the carnival period. (wikipedia)

Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle; when it's converted into a hotel, he stays on as a bellboy. His mysterious uncle arrives and turns out to be a vampire. When his uncle vampirizes Osvaldo, the newly-minted blood-sucker gallops about the castle sipping from the necks of dozens of beautiful female guests. (imdb)

Background Information: Padre Salvatore Gabriele Anastasio (Anastasia) arrived at Santa Lucia Church in an Italian-American section of the North Bronx in 1951. (imdb)