Released Date:
1987-09-11
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (216 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniGenres:
DramaDemetrio Casile (previous screenplay)
Francesca Comencini
Luigi Comencini
Ugo Pirro
Released Date:
1990-04-06
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (574 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresFrancesca Marciano
Alessandro Vivarelli
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Paolo Virzè
Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
Released Date:
1990-04-06
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (576 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresFrancesca Marciano
Alessandro Vivarelli
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Paolo Virzè
Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
Released Date:
1991-01-31
Languages:
Italian, English, Greek, Turkish
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (9993 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresGreek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there. Actually, the island isn't deserted and when the Greeks understand that those Italians are harmless, they came out of their hiding places in the mountains and continue their peaceful lives. Soon the soldiers discover that being left behind in a God-forgotten Greek island isn't such a bad thing, after all...
Released Date:
1992-12-17
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (888 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresPino Cacucci (novel)
Enzo Monteleone (screenplay)
Diego Abatantuono (screenplay)
Gabriele Salvatores (screenplay)
Mario leads a normal life, working in a Milan bank. His daily routine is shattered when he witnesses a murder and is shot himself by the killer, a deranged police commissioner. To save his life, he must abandon his life and flee to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. When he runs out of money he teams up with Alex and Anita, a couple of Italians that will lead him on to a series of adventures and encounters with drug dealers, corrupt police officers and other weird characters.
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (109 Reviews)
Director:
Marco RisiGenres:
ComedyAndrea Purgatori (screenplay)
Andrea Purgatori (story)
Marco Risi (screenplay)
Marco Risi (story)
Maurizio Tedesco (story)
Released Date:
1993-10-29
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (171 Reviews)
Director:
Giovanni VeronesiGenres:
HistoryUgo Chiti
Pasquale Festa Campanile (novel)
Giovanni Veronesi
The Nativity of Mary, from Joseph point of view.
Released Date:
1994-09-30
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (286 Reviews)
Director:
Carlo MazzacuratiUmberto Contarello
Carlo Mazzacurati
Sandro Petraglia
Stefano Rulli
Italia, 1994. Franco e Loris are two friends that decide to steal a stud bull. The bull is worth a lot. Their idea is to immediately leave Italy and try to sell the bull in Hungary. But east Europe is not exactly what they were expecting. The troubles, the miseries and the reality of the countries they are crossing change step by step their minds. The new way of thinking will drive them to a new kind of friendships.
Released Date:
1997-01-24
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(4933 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresGabriele Salvatores
Pino Cacucci (screenplay)
Gloria Corica (screenplay)
Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Released Date:
1998-08-21
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (340 Reviews)
Director:
Pupi AvatiIncredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her marriage and marry the best man. And although she is able to dissolve her marriage, because she has never consummated it, the best man leaves... only to return to her many months later.
Released Date:
1988-02-26
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (98 Reviews)
Director:
Pupi AvatiGenres:
DramaPupi Avati (screenplay)
Antonio Avati (screenplay)
Italo Cucci (screenplay)
Pupi Avati (story)
Antonio Avati (story)
Michele Plastino (dialogue)
Italo Cucci (story)
Released Date:
1998-03-13
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (171 Reviews)
Director:
Davide FerrarioGenres:
ComedyDavide Ferrario (story)
Diego Abatantuono (story)
Sergio Rubini (story)
Davide Ferrario (screenplay)
Diego Abatantuono (screenplay)
A bungling bank robber, an uncooperative hostage with a secret, a gay policeman and a situation which rapidly goes from bad to worse are the ingredients to this very funny and unpredictable caper flick. Sad sack Domenico is an unemployed man who decides to rob a Turin bank and then to travel north to Switzerland with his loot. But things don't work out that way: For the heist is messy and he ends up with the tall, patrician Tommaso as his hostage. Tommaso, a businessman who is on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly takes over and convinces convincing Domenico to, instead, head south, get help from a friend of Tommaso and sail off to Egypt. But the plan soon unravels, as Domenico discovers that the friend, Orfeo, is actually Tommaso's lover and a policeman to boot. The odd couple is now the odd triangle and when Tommaso's grown-up daughter decides to come along as well, the likelihood of poor Domenico getting out of the country becomes more and more complicated.
Released Date:
1993-10-29
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (172 Reviews)
Director:
Giovanni VeronesiGenres:
HistoryUgo Chiti
Pasquale Festa Campanile (novel)
Giovanni Veronesi
The Nativity of Mary, from Joseph point of view.
Released Date:
2001-02-23
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1070 Reviews)
Director:
Ettore ScolaFurio Scarpelli (story)
Ettore Scola (screenplay)
Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)
Silvia Scola (screenplay)
Giacomo Scarpelli (screenplay)
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
Released Date:
2001-12-21
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, Germany
Runtime:
80 min
IMDB Ratings:
(213 Reviews)
Director:
Enzo D'AlèEnzo D'Alè
Michael Ende (novel)
Umberto Marino
A little girl Momo tries to save the world from the Gray Men intent on stealing people's time.
Released Date:
2002-03-15
Languages:
Italian, Spanish, English
Countries:
Italy, Spain
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (802 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresAndrea Garello (story)
Gabriele Salvatores (story)
Ramèn Salazar (collaborator for adaptation)
Released Date:
2004-01-30
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (515 Reviews)
Director:
Pupi AvatiReleased Date:
2007-10-26
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
IMDB Ratings:
3.6 (302 Reviews)
Director:
Carlo VanzinaGenres:
ComedyCarlo Vanzina
Enrico Vanzina
Released Date:
2009-04-03
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (431 Reviews)
Director:
Pupi AvatiBologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Cafè, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
Released Date:
2009-04-03
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (437 Reviews)
Director:
Pupi AvatiBologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Cafè, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
Released Date:
2011-09-03
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (386 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco PatiernoGenres:
ComedyDiego De Silva (screenwriter)
Giovanna Koch (screenwriter)
Francesco Patierno (screenwriter)
Maroso Golfetto is a firm manager from Veneto who is always yelling at his employees, all either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel where he keeps denouncing the evils of immigration and is very popular with everybody including with kids. His speech hits home better than that of Lucia, their anti-racist schoolmistress. And what will be will be : by dint of invoking the help of God to rid Veneto of its immigrants the miracle finally happens : one morning they have all disappeared. But is that really a blessing ?
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