Released Date:
1956-04-25
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
83 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3287 Reviews)
Director:
Federico FelliniMichelangelo Antonioni (story)
Federico Fellini (story)
Tullio Pinelli (story)
Federico Fellini (screenplay)
Tullio Pinelli (screenplay)
Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)
The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon, an audience with the Pope, and to present her to his uncle. They arrive early in the morning, and he has time for a nap. She sneaks off to find the offices of a romance magazine she reads religiously: she wants to meet "The White Sheik," the hero of a soap-opera photo strip. Star-struck, she ends up 20 miles from Rome, alone on a boat with the sheik. A distraught Ivan covers for her, claiming she's ill. That night, each wanders the streets, she tempted by suicide, he by prostitutes. The next day, at 11, is their papal audience. Can things still right themselves?
Released Date:
1956-11-07
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(9646 Reviews)
Director:
Federico FelliniFederico Fellini (story)
Ennio Flaiano (story)
Tullio Pinelli (story)
Federico Fellini (screenplay)
Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)
Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend and companion Moraldo Rubini, is forced to marry her. After their honeymoon, he takes a job as a salesman of religious objects in a small shop. He isn't changed by his marriage and still looks for women, with his friends, when and where they can find them. He even tries to seduce the wife of his boss and is fired. After each episode, Sandra forgives him. He and his friends of similar temperament are content to be idle, chase girls and leave the work and job-hunting to others. After spending the night away from home with a girl, Sandra cannot forgive anymore and runs off with their child. Fausto and his friends search all over for them, fearing the worst.
Released Date:
1955-12-30
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, Spain
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (112 Reviews)
Director:
Antonio PietrangeliGenres:
ComedyAntonio Pietrangeli (story)
Antonio Pietrangeli (screenplay)
Sandro Continenza (screenplay)
Ruggero Maccari (screenplay)
Ettore Scola (screenplay)
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?
Released Date:
1959-10-28
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (2205 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliAgenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Luciano Vincenzoni (story)
Mario Monicelli (story)
Agenore Incrocci (dialogue)
Furio Scarpelli (dialogue)
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges to make him avoiding the army. But the destiny make them meeting again on the train directed to the front. Nevertheless Oreste stolen money to Giovanni they become friends and in first times are allocated to a secondary and quite front (village of Tigliano). Here they spend some months in relative peace and Giovanni finds time to fall in love for prostitute Costantina. But war is getting everyday closer. During the most important battle among Italians and Austro-Hungarians, Giovanni and Oreste are in charge to deliver a vital message to the Italian headquarters. But, unfortunately, they fall in the hands of an Austrian officer that, under life menace, starts an interrogation to find out the Italian message. What they should try to do now?
Released Date:
1959-09-23
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
132 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (265 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco RosiSuso Cecchi D'Amico (story)
Francesco Rosi (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (screenplay)
Francesco Rosi (screenplay)
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
Released Date:
1960-10-27
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (513 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniAgenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Luigi Comencini
Marcello Fondato
Released Date:
1962-08-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
(364 Reviews)
Director:
Guy HamiltonSuso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Agenore Incrocci (screenplay)
Jack Pulman (screenplay)
Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)
Luciano Vincenzoni (story)
In 1941 the Italian and British forces face one another.Italian army Captain Blasi and his troops manage to capture a British unit composed of British army Major Richardson and his men.Initially,it looks like a great feat for the Italians and a humiliation for the British.However,the British don't know the true sorry state in which the Italian forces,in full retreat,find themselves.A desperate Captain Blasi decides to allow Major Richardson escape in return for Richardson's word that he will try and persuade his superiors to allow Captain Blasi and his Italian unit retreat without any difficulties or further harassment.Not only the British Major escapes but he returns with a superior British unit and takes Captain Blasi and his men prisoner.Blasi considers this to be a personal affront and a total lack of gentlemanly conduct from the part of Major Richardson.Now in captivity,Blasi decides to make Richardson's task of guarding the Italians an impossible one.
Released Date:
1961-12-19
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (795 Reviews)
Director:
Dino RisiSilvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Released Date:
1962-10-25
Languages:
Italian, English, French, German
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1599 Reviews)
Director:
Alberto LattuadaRafael Azcona
Bruno Caruso (story)
Marco Ferreri
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Antonio is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians. He even dispels stereotypes about the mafia, saying that being a mafioso as a teen amounted to just being a messenger boy. But as Antonio reconnects with his past in Sicily, he finds out that there are more sides to being a Sicilian than he remembers.
Released Date:
1963-04-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (91 Reviews)
Director:
Gian Luigi PolidoroGenres:
ComedyRodolfo Sonego
Sordi gives a deep and touching comic performance as an Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm. The movie depicts the clash between his fantasies about sex in Sweden with the reality of what he finds.
Released Date:
1965-06-16
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
138 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
(5337 Reviews)
Director:
Ken AnnakinIn the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position and the affections of various women.
Released Date:
1968-10-24
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (675 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ZampaGenres:
ComedySergio Amidei
Giuseppe D'Agata (novel)
Alberto Sordi
Luigi Zampa
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
Released Date:
1970-12-23
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (62 Reviews)
Ruggero Maccari
Mario Monicelli
Rodolfo Sonego
Alberto Sordi
Three episodes. The refrigerator. A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their familiar balance sheet. To earn some money they decide to go for prostitution. The wife is not so unhappy to the perspective. The room. To celebrate ten years of marriage a couple decides to spend a quick holiday in top luxury hotels in Sardegna. But the fashion luxury VIP world is too hard to enter; they soon will end in prison. The Lion. Two adulterous, Antonio and Giulia, are blocked by a lion, staying on the exit in the place they met. They both have to come back home, but couldn't move because of the lion presence. The critic situation soon drive them to their limit peak, showing their real essence.
Released Date:
1971-12-22
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, Australia
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (533 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ZampaGenres:
ComedyReleased Date:
1971-10-27
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (442 Reviews)
Director:
Nanni LoySergio Amidei
Emilio Sanna
Rodolfo Sonego (idea)
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.
Released Date:
1972-10-25
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (1171 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniEvery year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.
Released Date:
1988-03-04
Languages:
Italian, French, Spanish, German
Countries:
Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (499 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniGenres:
DramaLuigi Comencini (screenplay)
Ruggero Maccari (screenplay)
Bernardino Zapponi (screenplay)
Roxane Boutang (screenplay)
Peter Berling (screenplay)
Josè Luis Martènez Mollè (screenplay)
Luigi Comencini (story)
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.
Released Date:
1981-12-22
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
135 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (1806 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliBernardino Zapponi (story)
Leonardo Benvenuti (story)
Piero De Bernardi (story)
Mario Monicelli (story)
Tullio Pinelli (story)
Leonardo Benvenuti (screenplay)
Piero De Bernardi (screenplay)
Mario Monicelli (screenplay)
Tullio Pinelli (screenplay)
Alberto Sordi (screenplay)
The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.
Rodolfo Sonego
Alberto Sordi
Carlo Verdone
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.
Released Date:
1982-09-17
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (215 Reviews)
Director:
Alberto SordiAugusto Caminito
Rodolfo Sonego
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. When Fabio gets the films he discovers his family life is far from being tedious and flat. Livia cheats on him, and their daughter Veronica is a drug addict. He is also under the threat of a terrible illness. Maybe Fabio will start considering a new life style.
Released Date:
1983-12-21
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (258 Reviews)
Director:
Alberto SordiAgenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Alberto Sordi
Released Date:
1986-01-30
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (591 Reviews)
Director:
Carlo VerdoneSergio Leone
Rodolfo Sonego
Alberto Sordi
Carlo Verdone
Released Date:
1977-03-17
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1299 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliGenres:
DramaVincenzo Cerami (novel)
Sergio Amidei (screenplay)
Mario Monicelli (screenplay)
When his only son is killed in an armed robbery, a meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.
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