Vittorio Metz

Political comedy starring old Italian favorite Toto

Peppino is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano. (imdb)

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments. (imdb)

When a Russian space craft is lost in space with two cosmonauts on board, the KGB authorities abduct two petty criminals, Franco and Ciccio, to launch them into space and have them return to impersonate the lost cosmonauts, only to have the real cosmonauts, Paradowski and Borovin, return which the two duos cause misunderstandings abound. (imdb)

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam (imdb)

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)

Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde. (imdb)

Totò Al Giro D'Italia is a black & white film in the Italian Neorealism genre about the 1948 edition of the Giro d'Italia, in which Professor Totò sells his soul to the devil in order to win the love of the bella Doriana. She agrees to marry him only if he can win the national bicycle race, calculating that this is an impossibility, but one stage after another he defeats all great cycling champions of that time (Coppi, Bartali, Schotte, Kubler, Bobet, Magni, et al).

This comedy shows how people shouldn't hurry to make serious things, (like getting married, for instance). In this movie, the "odyssey" of a rich-becoming man to find a wife who "helps" him to inherit a fortune is showed with great efficiency. The lots of problems that appear in an apparently simple task like searching for a wife to become rich shows this is not as easy as it may seem, and you can see there that money doesn't always bring happiness, until it's come. (Mr-JAFO)

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)

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him. (imdb)

Farcical version of the Figaro story.

Sonia, a beautiful gold digger, mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for the Arab prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri. Antonio goes there behind his wife and mother in law's back. Due to a lucky series of circumstances he really does becomes the prince of the island. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)

A patient in a mental hospital reveals his view of society to a psychiatrist. (locatetv)

The Duke Gagliardo della Forcoletta, penniless and expert in horse-races, finds out he has a daughter, Emma Marini. Her job is in the bar Aurora. The Duke decides to participate in Lascia o raddoppia, a TV quiz transmission, in order to win the five million lira necessary to buy the bar, and he becomes famous. The two gangsters Nick Molise and Joe Taccola bet between themselves on his success and the Duke is kidnapped. (imdb)

Three Explorers,Stanis, Spartaco and Iva are excited to hear that there's a strange creature, a kind of white ape man called Tarzan (Totò), who lives in heart of the jungle. Using Iva as bait they're able to capture him, but their excitement is rather curtailed when they discover that he's a pretty handy speaker of Italian. In fact, they discover that he is actually the son of a wealthy adventurer who accidentally left him in the jungle back when he was a child... (thewildeye)

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti (Totò) refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul. (Diogenes81)

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)

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family and succeeds in stealing their silver cutlery. (imdb)

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

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

The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi, a street musician. (imdb)

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)

Comedy about little girl who cleverly arranges her father's remarriage.

Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three. He is then robbed of his uniform and he is involved in a weapons trafficking. The other three are looking for him when they find three beautiful girls. At the end they all will meet at the night club Alcazar. What will it happen? (imdb)

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure. (imdb)

The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo. (imdb)

Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments. (imdb)

Totò, a former butler, joins the Foreign Legion and is taken prisoner by a sheik.(bfi)

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)

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce... (imdb)

A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder. (imdb)

Toto has an accident while trying to commit suicide, goes to hell, visits beatniks, marries a Siamese twin, and has other misadventures. (scifilm.org)

Strange things are happening to silent tax collector Dr. Ugo La Strizza. When he finally opens his mouth, we learn that four of his clients are attempting to bribe him with favours. From here on the film leaves Ugo behind and follows the comical losers instead. One of them actually built the tax collectors building, so he tries to get the others to join him in a burglary (stealing taxes in order to pay them back). (imdb)

Imputato, alzatevi! is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario.

The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack.... and from then on a bad idea gets worse.

Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose. One day a young graduate, Walter, turns up in search of work, and though he is almost identical to the rival in his dreams, Fernando reluctantly hires him.

In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.

Anselmo Pandolfini kidnaps a famous American diva to reunite her with her lover John, organizing a party based on spaghetti and Italian wines. (imdb)

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other. (imdb)