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Perlasca

Crew: Editor

Actors: Luca Zingaretti, Jerome Ange, Amanda Sandrelli, György Cserhalmi, Elena Arvigo

Synopsis: Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian cattle dealer who was sympathetic to the fascist cause until September 8, 1943. Perlasca was in Budapest, Hungary, on a business trip when he had the opportunity to see first hand how Hungarian Jews were being treated by German occupying forces. Shocked by the Read More

4/15/05
L'Amore E Eterno- Finche Dura

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca, Rodolfo Corsato, Lucia Ceracchi

2004
C'era un Chinese in coma

Crew: Editor

Actors: Beppe Fiorello, Nanni Tamma

Synopsis: Popular Italian director-actor Carlo Verdone stars in this wacky tale about a talent agent with a talentless client roster. Ercole Preziosi (Verdone) represents middling girl groups, bad magicians, and even worse comics. When a grizzly traffic accident leaves his star comedian client bed-ridden Read More

2000
Gallo Cedrone

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Regina Orioli, Paolo Triestino, Ines Nobili, Enrica Rosso

Synopsis: Carlo Verdone directed this Italian comedy in which the refers to a capercaillie, a European grouse distinctive for its chest-puffing vanity. The story opens in an Arab country where Islamic fundamentalists condemn Armando Feroci (Verdone) to death, followed by a flashback to 17 years earlier when Read More

1998
La Grande Quercia

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Filmed from a child's viewpoint, this gripping drama follows the exploits of a doctor, his wife and their three children after they flee Rome in war-torn 1943 to find safety on their grandfather's farm in Lazio. Shortly after their arrival, the children, ages five-to-seven and largely clueless Read More

1997
Una Vacanza All'Inferno

Crew: Editor

Actors: Marco Leonardi, F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini, Mirca Viola, Rolando Ravello

Synopsis: In this Italian crime drama, unemployed Angelo (Marco Leonardi) is elated to receive an offer from Luciano (Alessandro Zamattio) to assist in a Bangkok video shoot. Unknown to Angelo, Luciano stashes inside the camera $10,000 worth of heroin, discovered at airport customs. Placed in a cell with Read More

1997
Iris Blond

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Romeo Spera (Carlo Verdone), an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, is a musician who used to be fairly popular. Even now he earns his living in music as an accompanist to female singers. His big problem, though, is that he is hungry for romance. The predictions of a fortune teller encourage his Read More

1996
La Frontiera

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: On convalescent leave on his birth-island off Dalmatia, Franco (Marco Leonardi), a Croatian-speaking soldier in the Italian army, sees things that cause him to question his loyalty to the Italian rulers in the area. Thus, he does not think too harshly of the local children's efforts to sabotage Read More

1996
Viaggi di nozze

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Carlo Verdone both directed and starred in this lightweight comedy comprised of three segments, each dealing with the experiences of three grooms embarking upon disastrous honeymoons. In the first a very proper, fastidious and socially conscious doctor marries a nervous wreck of Read More

1995
Perdiamoci Di Vista

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Asia Argento, Aldo Maccione, Sonya Gessner, Cosima Costantini

Synopsis: A jaded TV host falls in love with a paraplegic in this Italian comedy. The romance begins after Gepy Fuxas, the host of a popular reality show, is attacked on the air by an irate audience member in a wheel chair. The attacker, Arianna, is upset that he so readily exploits the pain of others. Read More

1994
Al Lupo Al Lupo

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Francesca Neri, Sergio Rubini, Barry Morse

Synopsis: Their father (Barry Morse) is a wealthy, world-renowned painter, and he brought the three siblings (two sons and a daughter) up in lavish style. The three children have had a falling out over the years, as much due to their differing lifestyles as anything else. Gregorio (Carlo Verdone) is a radio Read More

1993
Mutande Pazze

Crew: Editor

Actors: Monica Guerritore, Eva Grimaldi

Synopsis: Reviewers barked that this erstwhile sex satire attempted (unsuccessfully) to emulate the fervid taboo-breaking style of Pedro Almodóvar, but they may have been disappointed because of their fondness for the director's comedy commentary on Italian television, none of which appears in this film Read More

1992
Quattro Figli Unici

Crew: Editor

Actors: Mariella Valentini, Roberto Citran, Ivano Marescotti, Fabio Iellini

Synopsis: Mariella has two teen-aged children, but that doesn't seem to have much impact on her life. She continues to be a reporter obsessed with digging for the next story, no matter what the personal difficulties involved. Her ex-husband is similarly involved in his career, and their son Paolo has had Read More

1992
Stasera A Casa Di Alice

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Ornella Muti, Sergio Castellitto, Yvonne Scio, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: In this comedy, Saverio (Carlo Verdone) and his brother-in-law Filippo (Sergio Castellitto) both work at a travel agency which is wholly owned by their wives. In effect, they are their wive's employees. In the course of doing his job, Saverio discovers that his brother-in-law is setting up a woman Read More

1991
Il Bambino e il poliziotto

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Federico Rizzo, Barbara Cupisti

Synopsis: When policeman Carlo Vinciguerra (Carlo Verdone) arrests everyone attending a party in order to break up a drug ring, he is left with one partygoer he can't arrest: Giulio (Federico Rizzo), the six-year old son of the (relatively blameless) hostess. While his mother is in the slammer, the courts Read More

1990
Compagni Di Scuola

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Nancy Brilli, Athina Cenci, Christian de Sica, Eleonora Giorgi, Natasha Hovey, Luisa Maneri

Synopsis: In this very Italian comedy, the romantic lives of a group of 35 year old former high-school chums go through a series of dramatic changes in the course of a single evening at a reunion dinner party. The film's director Carlo Verdone plays Piero, a schoolteacher who has a frustrating relationship Read More

12/21/88
Io E Mia Sorella

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Ornella Muti, Elena Sofia Ricci

Synopsis: Carlo (Carlo Verdone) is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia (Ornella Muti) in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Read More

12/19/87
7 Chili In 7 Giorni

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Renato Pozzetto, Tiziana Pini

1987
Il Burbero

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel, Mattia Sbragia, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: In this light comedy and mystery film, Mary is a waitress living in New York. She is also a newlywed, blonde, and none too bright into the bargain. One day, she gets a call from her husband, who instructs her to take the next plane to Florence because he's struck it rich. However, when she lands Read More

1987
Grandi Magazzini

Crew: Editor

Actors: Alessandro Haber, Laura Antonelli, Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments. In one skit, Elena (Laura Antonelli) and her husband the personnel director, are Read More

10/30/86
Il Tenente Dei Carabinieri

Crew: Editor

2/13/86
Senza Scrupoli

Crew: Editor

1/9/86
Sette Chili in Sette Giorni

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this comedy, the ever-resourceful Alfio (Carlo Verdone) and his pal Silvano (Renato Pozzetto) are medical school graduates who have been unable to find work. The two of them convince Alfio's wealthy wife that she could make a bundle by opening up a "fat farm," or weight-loss clinic, and that Read More

1986
È Arrivato Mio Fratello

Crew: Editor

12/19/85
Lui è Peggio Di Me

Crew: Editor

2/21/85
A Me Mi Piace

Crew: Editor

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Rochelle Redfield, Dan Doby, Lara Wendel

Synopsis: In this understated tale of love and its convolutions, Arturo (Italian comic Enrico Montesano) is an introverted sort who oversees the programs for a flourishing private TV station. Once active in the 1968 student demonstrations, Arturo's interests have changed a little as he accumulates the Read More

1985
I Due Carabinieri

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, Massimo Boldi, Paola Onofri

Synopsis: Carrying a patchwork storyline on the strength of their top characterizations, popular Italian comics Carlo Verdone (also the director) and Enrico Montesano portray Marino and Glauco, respectively, two disparate men who find themselves reluctantly forced into joining the carabinieri, Italy's Read More

1985
Acqua e Sapone

Crew: Editor

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Natasha Hovey, Florinda Bolkan, Elena Fabrizi

Synopsis: Rolando (Carlo Verdone) has tried everything to find a teaching job and so when he fakes it and lands a job as a priest tutoring Sandy, a teenage American model (Natasha Hovey), he feels particularly blessed -- it certainly beats his work as a janitor at an English school run by the Catholic Read More

10/27/83
Scusate il Ritardo

Crew: Editor

Actors: Massimo Troisi, Giuliana de Sio, Lello Arena

Synopsis: Co-writer and director Massimo Troisi also stars in this comedy about Vicenzo, a young man living at home (in Naples) with his mother and his sister and her family and having to face the prospect of assuming more responsibility if he wants to keep his relationship with Anna (Giuliana De Sio). Read More

2/25/83
Morte in Vaticano

Crew: Editor

Actors: Terence Stamp, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: The title of this movie raises an issue that is never really met head-on in the story, instead, the focus seems to be on a meandering sub-plot. The Pope (Terence Stamp) was once Father Andreani, a teacher of Father Bruno Martello (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) when Father Bruno was studying at the Read More

1/11/83
Grand Hotel Excelsior

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: Four popular Italian comedians (Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, and Diego Abantantuono), at the time this film was shot, play characters who either work in or visit a large hotel. Each comedian reprises some of the roles or attitudes that made him famous in a series of Read More

10/7/82
No Grazie, Il Caffé Mi Rende Nervoso

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lello Arena, Maddalena Crippa, James Senese, Massimo Troisi

Synopsis: Someone is killing off the performers in a tent theater and it is up to an unlikely obituary writer (Lello Arena) to solve the mystery -- at least, that is how his lover Lisa (Maddalena Crippa) sees it. Along with brief comedy skits by Massimo Troisi there are saxophone performances by James Senese Read More

10/7/82
Cercasi Gesù

Crew: Editor

Actors: Beppe Grillo, Maria Schneider, Fernando Rey, Meme Perlini

Synopsis: Giovanni (Beppe Grillo) is a mysterious hitchhiker of unknown origins, oddly out of place in the modern world since he is quite humble in his attitude, equally compassionate to everyone, and unselfish. Giovanni is given a lift by a priest (Fernando Rey) who looks like he deals cards under the Read More

3/3/82
Il Paramedico

Crew: Editor

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Edwige Fenech, Enzo Cannavale, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Mario (Enrico Montesano) works as a hospital orderly whose lucky win in a lottery for a new luxury car turns out to be his greatest misfortune. His first mistake was to hide the car from his wife (Edwige Fenech) in an effort to hang on to it, rather than sell it off for the money as she would Read More

2/5/82
Borotalco

Crew: Editor

Actors: Eleonora Giorgi, Carlo Verdone, Christian de Sica

Synopsis: Sergio (Carlo Verdone) and Nadia (Eleonora Giorgi) are door-to-door sales reps for a recording company that features the popular Italian singer Lucio Dalla. Nadia is attractive and interested in a bigger and better life for herself. Sergio is well-fed and undistinguished, and together they make a Read More

1/22/82
Innamorato Pazzo

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: Cristina (Ornella Muti) is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble Read More

12/18/81
Asso

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar -- and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Bocconcino (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife Read More

4/9/81
Ricomincio Da Tre

Crew: Editor

Actors: Massimo Troisi, Lello Arena

Synopsis: A newcomer in 1981, Massimo Troisi wrote, directed, and starred in this popular comedy about the trials of Gaetano (Troisi) as he runs head-on into quirky characters ranging from a driver bent on ending it all with him in the car, to his mother who considers his forthcoming trip to Florence right Read More

3/5/81
Il Bisbetico Domato

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters

Synopsis: This Taming of the Shrew in Italian is also a take off on the 1970 French film L'ours et la Poupee, and showcases the popular singer/comedian Adriano Celentano as an irascible country farmer named Elia, who locks horns with Lisa (Ornella Muti), a gorgeous society snob. Elia is a notoriously Read More

12/20/80
Mani Di Velluto

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp, Olga Karlatos

Synopsis: Guido (Italian pop-music superstar Adriano Celentano) is a millionaire who has made his fortune by inventing an unbreakable glass. He has everything he wants except for casual sex from a woman who knows nothing of his wealth. While riding the subway, his Rolex watch is lifted by the beautiful Read More

12/20/79
Sono stato un agente C.I.A.

Crew: Editor

Actors: David Janssen, Corinne Clery, Maurizio Merli, Arthur Kennedy, Philippe Leroy

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, set in Greece, a former CIA agent (David Janssen) is being stalked by his former employers, led by Arthur Kennedy,after he writes a book about his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/10/78
Doppio Delitto

Crew: Editor

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Agostina Belli, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays the downtrodden Bruno Baldassare, a murder-squad investigator in Rome who gets no respect from his peers, who give him the least interesting cases. His bumbling aide, Cantalamessa, gets even less respect. While a lightning strike could have caused the deaths of two Read More

12/23/77
Il Bel Paese

Crew: Editor

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Silvia Dionisio

Synopsis: It often seems that Italy is on the verge of total collapse as a nation. Still, that family-centered and nearly anarchic land which its citizens ironically call Il Bel Paese, seems to survive everything that happens to it. In this satirical comedy, Guido Paolo is an oil-rig worker who has saved Read More

12/17/77
La Donna della Domenica

Crew: Editor

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Aldo Reggiani, Pino Caruso

Synopsis: In this Italian mystery, a detective journeys into the rarified world of the idle rich to look into a puzzling murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/23/75
L'Anatra all'Arancia

Crew: Editor

Actors: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson

Synopsis: The English-language title for the Italian L'Anatra All'arancia was Duck in Orange Sauce. Though Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi) is comfortably married to Lisa (Monica Vitti), he nonetheless takes up with pretty (and fetchingly underdressed) American Patty (Barbara Bouchet). In retalitaiton, Lisa begins an Read More

12/20/75
How to Kill a Judge

Crew: Editor

Actors: Franco Nero, Marco Guglielmi

Synopsis: Franco Nero here plays a film producer whose film is about to be seized by a stiff-necked Sicilian judge, but the judge is murdered before the seizure order can be given. This death has had an effect similar to kicking open an ant's nest, and the corrupt local politicians are all scrambling to do Read More

2/5/75
Il Piatto Piange

Crew: Editor

Actors: Aldo Maccione, Agostina Belli, Andréa Ferréol, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In a provincial town, before Mussolini's Ethiopian adventure, Camola (Aldo Maccione) a card-playing lothario, scores comedic points in his pursuit of the town's attractive women. Somehow this charming rogue maintains his personal and amatory independence amid the apparently strict social rules of Read More

11/14/74
Giordano Bruno

Crew: Editor

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè

Synopsis: Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order and taught widely throughout Europe. Among the ideas he taught were the inexpressibility of any ultimate truths and the complete relativity of ordinary truth. He also taught Read More

11/29/73
Piu Forte, Ragazzi!

Crew: Editor

12/22/72
What Have You Done to Solange?

Crew: Editor

Actors: Joachim Fuchsberger, Camille Keaton, Fabio Testi

Synopsis: One of the final links between the Edgar Wallace-based German krimi genre and the Italian giallo thriller, this creepy mystery stars Fabio Testi as a college professor who sleeps with his students and is blamed when a string of murders occurs. Joachim Fuchsberger, as usual, is the Read More

3/9/72
Uccidere in Silenzio

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This Italian melodrama, with a dubbed English soundtrack, is an anti-abortion platform wrapped in a drama. Throughout the film, but beginning with the title sequence, the lively and engaging baby whose life might have been cut short is featured in many short scenes. The story involves two students Read More

2/11/72
Trinity Is Still My Name

Crew: Editor

Actors: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer

Synopsis: In this comic Italian Western, the third of the "Trinity" series, Trinity (Terence Hill) and his brother Bambino (Bud Spencer) abandon their law-enforcement duties and try to join the world of horse thieves and criminals. Despite their bad intentions, and their own unbelievable klutziness, they Read More

10/21/71
Bad Cop Chronicles #1: Confessions of a Police Captain

Crew: Editor

Actors: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo

Synopsis: A mild-mannered police commissioner (Martin Balsam) is frustrated at every attempt to capture a political crimelord with legal means, so he is forced to turn to vigilante justice to get his man. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

3/26/71

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