Alberto SordiFilmography

Romanzo di Un Giovane Povero

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Rolando Ravello

Synopsis: Unhappy neighbors hatch a homicidal scheme, then turn on each other in this Italian thriller similar to Strangers on a Train (1951). Vincenzo Persico (Rolando Ravello) is a miserable man. Despite graduating from college six years ago, he can't land a teaching position, so he's forced to live in Read More

Nestore l'ultima corsa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Matteo Ripaldi, Cinzia Cannarozzo, Eros Pagni, Tatiana Farnese

Synopsis: An elderly Roman cabbie bids adieu to his beloved horse in this tearful drama. Gaetano and Nestor, his horse, have always enjoyed squiring the tourists around Rome. But then the owner of the cab tells Gaetano that he is fired. The poor old man is ordered to return the cab in Cinecitta and to take Read More

Assolto Per Aver Commesso Il Fatto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: Emilio Garrone (Alberto Sordi) used to be a government functionary who supervised the leasing of broadcasting rights for the Italian government, but now he is retired. In this comedy, through a series of well-played scams, he winds up not only with the exclusive ownership of all broadcasting Read More

Vacanze Di Natale '91

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Massimo Boldi, Christian de Sica, Nino Frassica, Ezio Greggio, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Read More

L'Avaro

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Lucia Bosé, Miguel Bose, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Since Moliere's plays are national classics of France, an air of reverence surrounds them. However, they are for the most part comedies based on older commedia del'arte storylines and acting conventions (which most closely resemble the broad humor of the American vaudeville or the British Read More

In Nome Del Popolo Sovrano

Les Deux Fanfarons

Actors: Bernard Blier, Alberto Sordi, Andréa Ferréol, Vittorio Caprioli

Una Botta Di Vita

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Andréa Ferréol, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: Veteran actors Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier play the earthy Battistini and shabby but elegant Mondardini, two older men abandoned by their families during the vacation months who decide to vacation together on the famed beaches of Cote d'Azur. The two bicker, quarrel and make up while they Read More

Un Tassinaro a New York

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Anna Longhi, Dom DeLuise, George Gaynes, Giorgio Gobbi

Synopsis: In this comedy/thriller, starring writer/director Alberto Sordi, Pietro (Sordi) and his wife (Anna Longhi) are Romans through-and-through. In their whole lives, they have never traveled far from their beloved city, though once they traveled to Bologna. Somehow, their son, the apple of their eye Read More

Troppo Forte

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, Alberto Sordi, John Steiner, Mario Brega

Synopsis: The Italian comic Carlo Verdone stars in (and directs and co-authors) this conventional, and unevenly humorous look at Oscar (Verdone), the neighborhood wannabe jock and biker who tries to land a part in a movie. After he is rejected, Oscar exacts revenge by causing a car crash that the producer's Read More

Sono Un Fenomeno Paranormale

Crew: Screenwriter

Tutti Dentro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Joe Pesci, Dalila di Lazzaro, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: In this take-off on Italian corruption, the indefatigable Alberto Sordi appears as Annibalo Salvemini, a morally upright and slightly eccentric judge determined to root out the causes of crime in his jurisdiction, even if the criminals lead all the way up to the highest echelons of political Read More

Il Tassinaro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Federico Fellini, Silvana Pampanini

Synopsis: Limited in new routines and without a plot to speak of, this series of vignettes focuses primarily on the fares a cab driver (Alberto Sordi) picks up and what is said or done during their ride. Unfortunately, some of the fares are foreigners ridiculed or insulted in one way or another (Arabs at a Read More

In Viaggio Con Papà

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Carlo Verdone

Synopsis: Two men (Alberto Sordi and Carlo Verdone) representing two different generations of Italian comics team up to present a swinging father (Sordi) and naïve son (Verdone) on a trip to a seaside haven where the father's mistress awaits. The first stop on their itinerary is the mother's house, shared Read More

Io So Che Tu Sai Che Io So

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Ivana Monti

Synopsis: Fabio Bonetti (Alberto Sordi) is a normal bank employee, enjoying the security of a peaceful home with a loving wife and pretty teenage daughter -- until he comes across some film surreptitiously taken by a private investigator that reveals his wife Flavia (Monica Vitti) in a whole new light. The Read More

Il Marchese Del Grillo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Caroline Berg, Paolo Stoppa, Flavio Bucci

Synopsis: The real Marquis of Grillo lived in the early 18th century, but, for this take-off on the marquis' life, director Mario Monicelli) has changed the time period to the early 19th century when a lot more was going on in Rome. The marquis (Alberto Sordi) amuses himself by throwing red-hot coins to Read More

Io E Caterina

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Edwige Fenech, Catherine Spaak, Valeria Valeri, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi directs this light comedy, and also stars as its mechanically challenged hero, a wealthy male chauvinist named Enrico who deals in wine better than he handles women. On a trip to the great land of America, Enrico discovers the wonders of a trained household robot named Catherine who Read More

Il Malato Immaginario

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Marina Vlady, Giuliana de Sio, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Argante (Alberto Sordi) is an eccentric recluse who suffers from a malady of real and imagined gastrointestinal difficulties in this tasteless, low-brow comedy. While his doctor (Bernard Blier) tries various cures, Argante exposes his unfaithful wife (Marina Vlady) and makes peace with his Read More

Il Testimone

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Philippe Noiret, Roland Dubillard, Giselle Preville, Paul Crauchet

Synopsis: Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. An old friend of his, Robert (Philippe Noiret), lives there. Robert is a banker who has married into money. A sexually adventurous young woman approaches Antonio, but he resists getting involved with her. When it Read More

L'Ingorgo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Dove Vai in Vacanza?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Paolo Villaggio, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: 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. In "Saro Tutta Per Te" (I Will Be All Yours), Tognazzi is Enrico, a dentist who has agreed to vacation with his ex-wife at her lover's Read More

Viva Italia

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Orietta Berti

Synopsis: This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the 1978 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Foreign film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Nuovi Mostri

Un Borghese Piccolo Piccolo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Romolo Valli, Vincenzo Crocitti

Synopsis: Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) doesn't have many ambitions in life. As far as he is concerned, things are pretty good just as they are. He has a wonderful son, whom he is grooming for a place in the civil service, and a weekend hideaway which he loves fixing up. His wife Amalia (Shelly Winters) Read More

Quelle Strane Occasioni

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Three films are gathered here under one title, and the general theme of sexual encounters unites them. In "Superman and Lady Godiva," a man working as a bouncer at an Amsterdam sex show is forced to bring his jealous wife to his workplace. She is hired as a performer and becomes a "star," much to Read More

Di Che Segno Sei?

Finche c'è Guerra c'è Speranza

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Silvia Monti

Synopsis: This dark comedy about a frantic arms merchant was a daring film for comedian Alberto Sordi to have made. Not only does he star in it, he also wrote much of the screenplay and directed the film. Shuttling between African nations and Milan, he peddles arms to despots and the revolutionaries who Read More

Polvere Di Stelle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Mio Fratello Anastasia

Actors: Richard Conte, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This Italian comedy shows the gradual enlightenment of an innocent and unsuspecting priest (Alberto Sordi) as he discovers that his extremely generous brother (Richard Conte) is in fact a major American crime lord. It is based on the novel by the Rev. Salvatore Anastasia, brother of ganglord Read More

La Piu Bella Serata Della Mia Vita

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Claude Dauphin, Charles Vanel, Michel Simon, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was shot. One of his better-known films is Children of Paradise. In this film, an Italian industrialist (Alberto Sordi) who has made his fortune using some shady tactics Read More

Lo Scopone Scientifico

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy US heiress and her partner embark upon their annual journey to Rome to play scopa, an Italian card game, with a financially struggling couple. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fellini's Roma

Actors: Britta Barnes, Federico Fellini

Synopsis: Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a mixture of real-life footage and fictional set pieces. It flows from episode to episode, beginning with the director's early years arriving in Rome in 1931 during the time Read More

Bello Onesto Emigrato Australia Sposerebbe Compaesan...

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, Amedio (Alberto Sordi) is a telephone lineman who works in remote parts of Australia. Unfortunately, for this shy, homely Italian man, all of Australia is remote. He wants a wife, and arranges for one by mail. The woman he has chosen is Carmela (Claudia Cardinale), a very Read More

Detenuto in Attesa Di Giudizio

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: An Italian engineer who has been working in Sweden returns with his wife to his homeland for a short visit, and he is swiftly detained for some unspecified crime. He moves from horrid prison to even more horrid prison as he awaits trial. His sanity grows ever more shaky in the process, and he Read More

Le Coppie

Crew: Director

Contestazione Generale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest. Riccardo (Vittorio Gassman) is a rebel who causes confusion on campus and at a television station. Part two finds industrial magnate Cavazza (Michel Simon) hounding his Read More

Nell'Anno Del Signore

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to rise up against the Pope. Cornacchia (Nino Manfredi) is the politician who helps the rebel outlaws Montanari (Robert Hossein) and Targhini (Renaud Verley). Martial law is Read More

Amore Mio Aiutami

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Silvano Tranquilli, Laura Adani

Synopsis: This romantic situation comedy finds Giovanni (Alberto Sordi) extremely jealous when his wife Raffaella (Monica Vitti) admits her infatuation over their handsome neighbor Valerio (Silvano Tranquilli). Giovanni spies on his wife and recruits their 10-year-old son in an effort to stop his wife's Read More

Riusciranno I Nostri Eroi A Ritrovare L'Amico Miseriosamente Scompars In Africa

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Fausto (Alberto Sordi) heads into the African jungle to find his long-lost cousin in this slapstick comedy. The Italian gentleman and his personal secretary Ubaldo (Bernard Blier) search for Oreste (Nino Manfredi) with orders to write a story about the man. Comedy ensues as they make their way Read More

Il Medico Della Mutua

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Evelyn Stewart

Synopsis: This comedic social satire mercilessly lampoons Italy's ineffectual health-care system that allows for corruption and mass hypochondria. An ambitious Dr. Tersilli (Alberto Sordi) bets his fellow doctors that he can amass more patients and benefits than they can. Learning the ins-and-outs of the Read More

Le Streghe

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti, Elsa Albani

Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive," "Civic Sense," "The Earth As Seen From The Moon," "The Girl From Sicily," and "A Night Like Any Read More

Un Italiano in America

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Albert Sordi is the son who travels to America to visit his father in New York. The two are to be reunited for the first time in 30 years on a television program. His father (Vittorio De Sica) takes advantage of the fabulous prizes offered by the show in hopes of paying off his gambling debts. The Read More

Scusi, Lei E Favorevole O Contrario?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Le Fate

Actors: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Giovampietro, Franco Balducci, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different directors. The first vignette, "Queen Sabina" (or "The Hitchhiker") chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" (aka "The Room with a Read More

Fumo Di Londra

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bindi, Alberto Sordi, Fiona Lewis, Amy Dalby

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi directs and co-stars with Fiona Lewis and Amy Dalby in this situation comedy with songs. Dante Fontana is an Italian antique dealer who specializes in items from Britain. When he finally gets to take his much-anticipated trip to the British Isles to attend an antique auction, Dante Read More

Made in Italy

Actors: Marina Berti, Anna Magnani, Andrea Checchi, Lando Buzzanca, Virna Lisi, Giulio Bosetti, Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Rossella Falk

Synopsis: Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about rich and poor, tourist and native. Director Nanni Loy exhibits the realistic and somewhat earthy technique he'd used on his earlier documentaries, with heavy emphasis on Read More

Thrilling

I Complessi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This gang-directed comedy combines the talents of Dino Risi, Franco Rossi, and Luigi Filippo Sonego. In "A Decisive Day," Nino Manfredi plays a shy company employee who wins the heart of a longtime flame only to discover she is married. Franco Rossi directs "Complex Of The Nubian Slave" starring Ugo Tognazzi Read More

I Tre Volti

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, Piero Tosi, Ralph Serpe

Synopsis: Michelangelo Antonioni served as just one of three directors on this Dino de Laurentiis production that also corralled Franco Indovina (Antonioni's assistant on three films) and Mauro Bolognini for three segments that all adhered to the titular theme, The Three Faces of a Woman: Il Provino, Latin Read More

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the Read More

A Day in Court

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Courtroom tomfoolery provides the basis for this four-episode Italian anthology comedy. In the first segment "Adultery in 16mm," an angry wife attempts to sue her neglectful husband by charging him with abandonment. Meanwhile, he charges her with adultery and claims to have a few reels of Read More

Il Disco Volante

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Silvana Mangano

Synopsis: The Flying Saucer is an irreverent satire of the worldwide fascination in space travel in the early 1960s. Alberto Sordi plays four roles in this slight tale of an invasion from Mars. The Martians decide to kidnap several "typical" Earthlings to help them understand our curious planet. The Read More

La Mia Signora

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi co-stars with Silvia Mangano in this Dino DeLaurentiis comedy production gang-directed by Tinto Brass, Mauro Bolognini, and Luigi Comenichi. The sketches primarily deal with the endearing battles between husbands and wives, giving Sordi the chance to mug for the camera in the comic Read More

Il Maestro Di Vigevano

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito de Taranto

Synopsis: Mombelli (Alberto Sordi) is an elementary school teacher whose wife Ada (Claire Bloom) dreams of becoming wealthy. She talks him into quitting his job and investing all of their money in a shoe factory. The family and the business fall apart when Ada is killed in a car wreck, and the colorless Read More

Il Boom

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This serio-comic drama finds a man (Alberto Sordi) in debt with no easy way to alleviate the situation. He conspires to sell one of his eyes to cover his loses and remain a success in the eyes of his wife. The talent of Sordi prevents this film from being labels as glory to gore as he weighs his Read More

Il Diavolo

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi pulls off another great comic role as Amadeo Ferretti, an Italian businessman who is traveling through Sweden in this entertaining comedy by Gian Luigi Polidoro. Amadeo is the quintessential Latin man who is quite taken with the blond beauties he sees on the streets around him. His Read More

Mafioso

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Ugo Attanasio

Synopsis:
In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost completely forsaken his southern Italian roots by marrying a fair-haired girl from the north and conceiving two children with her. As the movie opens, Antonio prepares Read More

Una Vita Difficile

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: In this slow-starting but effective drama, comedian Alberto Sordi changes hats to play Silvio Magnozzi, a man so dedicated to his high moral standards that he loses out on most of the things he wants in life -including his wife. He watches while others march up the ladder of success way ahead of Read More

Il Commissario

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Franca Tamantini, Alessandro Cutolo, Franco Scandurra, Angela Portaluri

Synopsis: Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini. Lombardozzi starts nosing around a murder that has been supposedly Read More

The Best of Enemies

Actors: David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Michael Wilding, Sr., Amedeo Nazzari, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: In this military comedy, Maj. Richardson (David Niven) and Lt. Burke (Michael Wilding) are two British soldiers on a recognizance mission over Ethiopia in 1941 when their plane crashes in the desert. Capt. Blasi (Alberto Sordi), an Italian officer, finds the Englishmen and offers to help them Read More

II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

... And Suddenly It's Murder!

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Bernard Blier, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: And Suddenly It's Murder! is a regulation Dino De Laurentiis concoction: Big stars, lavish production values, muddleheaded plot. Three Italian couples go on separate vacations to Monte Carlo. When they open their suitcases, a body tumbles out of one of the grips. The rest of the film is a macabre Read More

Tutti a Casa

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Martin Balsam, Serge Reggiani, Nino Castelnuovo, Mario Feliciani

Synopsis: In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly desert and head for home. Only two soldiers remain loyal to the army and they promptly begin heading back to the main forces. En route they are enticed by partisan soldiers who want the two to join Read More

La Grande Guerra

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Silvana Mangano

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi don ill-fitting military uniforms in this anecdotal Italian service comedy. They play a couple of World War I soldiers, adept at sidestepping duty and responsibility, but courageous to the core when in a pinch. The film strives for the boisterous feel of What Read More

I Magliari

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Renato Salvatori, Belinda Lee, Aldo Giuffré

Synopsis: A young group of enterprising con artist attempt to break up some Italian expatriates trying to sell an inferior cloth as genuine quality fabric. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Il Moralista

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franca Valeri, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Prolific director Giorgio Bianchi comes off with another good comedy in Il Moralista, due in no small part to the talents of Alberto Sordi as Agostino, the de facto head of a censorship board whose double life as a nightclub owner might raise some questions as to his censorial judgment. The Read More

Nella Città l'Inferno

Actors: Milly, Renato Salvatori, Alberto Sordi, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gajoni

Synopsis: This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off on a naive woman (Giulietta Masina) in a women's prison. Taking the innocent Masina under her wing, Magnani corrupts her, but is secretly touched by her kind heart. On Read More

Costa Azzurra

Actors: Elsa Martinelli, Alberto Sordi, Rita Gam, Georges Marchal, Antonio Cifariello

Synopsis: In a series of comedic episodes, wildly disparate individuals pass through the French Riviera and live out their dramas and traumas in this uneven but happy farce by director Vittorio Sala. Of all the sketches, that of top Italian comic Alberto Sordi as a fruit vendor going with his wife for a Read More

It Happened in Rome

Synopsis: It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy. The slight story concerns two young girls -- the German Hilde (Inge Schoener) and the French Josette (Isabelle Corey) -- who are hitching through the countryside. Vacationing Read More

Racconti d'Estate

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Morgan

Synopsis: Five romantic and funny vignettes comprise this Italian anthology that is set amidst the beauty and fun of the famed French coastline. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Venezia, la Luna e Tu

Domenica E Sempre Domenica

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Lorella de Luca, Dorian Gray

Synopsis: Domenica e Sempre Domenica (Sunday is Always Sunday) is one of several late-1950s films to be based on a successful TV series. In this instance, the program is Il Muschiere, which in 1958 was one of the most popular attractions on Italy's RAI-TV network. Il Muschiere was a game show, in which Read More

Souvenir d'Italie

Actors: June Laverick, Inge Schoener, Isabelle Corey, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around three lovely young ladies: Margaret (June Laverick) from England, Hilde (Ingeborg Schoener) from Germany and Josette (Isabelle Corey) from France. Hitchhiking through Read More

A Farewell to Arms

Actors: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Kurt Kasznar, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind). Rock Hudson plays an American serving in the Italian Army during the "War to End All Wars". Jennifer Jones is his lover, a Red cross Read More

Mi Permette, Babbo!

Mio figlio Nerone

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Gloria Swanson, Vittorio De Sica, Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis: Mio Figlio Nero boasts one of the most eccentrically diverse casts in motion picture history. Silent movie queen Gloria Swanson hams it up as Agrippina, the mother of infamous 1st-century Roman emperor Nero. Her little boy grows up to become Alberto Sordi, who plays the notorious lyre-plucker and Read More

Guardia, Guardia Scelta, Brigadiere E Maresciallo

Lo Scapolo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi plays the title character in the Spanish-Italian Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor). Forever on the verge of marriage, our hero is invariably "rescued" by an inbuilt mental quirk. He is convinced that he is thoroughly satisfied with his bachelorhood, but eventually realizes he's been lying to Read More

I Pappagalli

Piccola Posta

Bravissimo

Accadde Al Penitenziario

La Bella di Roma

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Antonio Cifariello

Synopsis: Nannina (Silvana Pampanini) is planning to marry Mario (Antonio Cifariello), but the nuptials hit a snag when he's put in prison for hitting a policeman. She goes to work as a cashier in a bar owned by Oreste (Paolo Stoppa), an older man who falls in love with her. She wants to open a restaurant Read More

Buonanotte...Avvocato!

Crew: Screenwriter

Il Segno di Venere

Actors: Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone, Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis: Il Segno di Venera (The Sign of Venus) offers an earthier Sophia Loren than American audiences would later become accustomed to. Agnese (Loren) has no trouble attracting men, which is more than can be said for her plain-Jane friend Cesira (Franca Valeri). The two girls embark on a search for an Read More

Un Eroe Dei Nostri Tempi

Synopsis: This routine drama set in post-war Italy is the first feature by novice director Sergio Capogna and is based on a best-selling novel by Vasco Pratolini. The story centers around one main protagonist, a young man (Massimo Tonna) who in addition to growing into adulthood, has to come to grips with Read More

L'Arte Di Arrangiarsi

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Armenia Balducci, Franco Coop

Synopsis: Sicilian Sasa Scimoni (Alberto Sordi) learns L'Arte di Arranglarsi, or "The Art of Getting Along", in this perceptive Italian comedy. Over a period of several decades, Scimoni must adapt to the various power structures in Italy. Whether it be the monarchy, the socialists, the fascists or the Read More

Accadde Al Commissariato

L'Allegro Squadrone

Actors: Charles Vanel, Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Jean Richard

Bertoldo, Bertoldino E...Cacasenno

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Maurizio Nichetti, Lello Arena, Alberto Sordi, Annabella Schiavone

Synopsis: This enjoyable parody of classic fairytales about kingdoms and despotic kings is set in the year 1000 and stars Italy's Ugo Tognazzi in top form as Bertoldo, a crafty peasant who has to outwit the king (not necessarily a difficult job) and others in order to stay afloat and alive. Joining him for Read More

Gran Varieta

Actors: Maria Fiore, Alberto Sordi, Carlo Croccolo

Synopsis: Unlike many multistoried films of the 1950s, Gran Varieta is the handiwork of a single solitary director--though five writers collaborated on the screenplay. The film is divided into five separate playlets, all unified by a "backstage" theme. In the first, Maria Fiore plays an aspiring singer who Read More

Tempi Nostri

Synopsis: This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their baby because they cannot afford to feed it. The second concerns two aristocrats who have fallen into poverty and end up reunited when they both are cast as extras in a movie. Read More

Amori Di Mezzo Secolo

Two Nights with Cleopatra

Synopsis: In this Italian bedroom farce, the lusty "Queen of the Nile" is determined to be with her lover, Marc Antony, before he heads off to war. Unfortunately, she has been assigned a new guard. She made love to her previous guard and he ended up executed as had several guards before him. Her new guard Read More

Tripoli, Bel Suol d'amore

Un Giorno in Pretura

Crew: Screenwriter

Un Americano a Roma

Crew: Screenwriter

Via Padova 46

Ci Troviamo in Galleria

Canzoni di Mezzo Secolo

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Cosetta Greco, Galeazzo Benti

Synopsis: The title of this Italian musical extravaganza promises "Half a Century of Songs," and that's just what it delivers. What plot there is contrives to encapsulate seven crucial moments in modern Italian history, as represented by the popular songs of each era. Jam-packed with star power, the film Read More

I Vitelloni

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Leonora Ruffo, Riccardo Fellini

Synopsis: Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the formal and thematic concerns that recur throughout his work. Set in the director's hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or Read More

The White Sheik

Actors: Brunella Bovo, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Lilia Landi

Synopsis: The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon movie stars. An impressionable young bride, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) accompanies her husband Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) on a dull honeymoon, full of meetings with family members Read More

È Arrivato l'Accordatore

Cameriera Bella Presenza Offresi...

Actors: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina

Synopsis: This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a salesman (Aldo Fabrizi) who values peace and quiet, but never gets it, and a vainglorious actor (Vittorio de Sica) with woman trouble. Through it all, Maria survives with a Read More

Mamma Mia, Che Impressione!

Crew: Screenwriter

Il Delitto di Giovane Episcopo

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Yvonne Sanson, Roldano Lupi, Ave Ninchi

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Alberto Lattuada's Flesh Will Surrender was released in the U.S. three years later. The film was adapted from a Gabriele d'Annunzio novel by three of Italy's top postwar scenarists: Suso Cecchi, Federico Fellini and Pietro Tellini. Aldo Fabrizi stars as Giovanni Episcopo, a Read More

Sotto il Sole di Roma

Actors: Francesco Golisano

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy in 1948 as Sotte il Sole de Roma, this Renato Castellani-directed effort reached American screens the following year through the good graces of United Artists. Adhering to the then-fashionable "neorealist" school, the film is gritty and uncompromising for the most part, though it Read More

Che Tempi!

Actors: Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: The exclamatory title of this Italian drama translates as What Queer Times! The plotline concerns a miser, and the effect his parsimoniousness has on all those around him. To its credit, the screenplay makes an effort to understand the miser's character, rather than depict him as a cardboard Read More

Le Miserie Del Signor Travet

Actors: Carlo Campanini, Vera Carmi, Gino Cervi

Synopsis: His Young Wife is a genteel Italian comedy about the pitfalls of romance. Middle-aged clerk Travet (Carlo Campanini) is the husband of young and very pretty Rosa (Vera Carmi). When Rosa begins a harmless flirtation with Travet's boss (Gino Cervi), rumors begin flying. The upshot of this tempest in Read More

L'Innocente Casimiro

Chi L'ha Visto?

Tre Ragazze Cercano Marito

Circo Equestre Za-Bum

Sant'elena Piccola Isola

Casanova Farebbe Cosi!

I Tre Aquilotti

Giarabub

Le Signorine Della Villa Accanto

La Signorina

Cuori Nella Tormenta

La Notte Delle Beffe