Carlo VerdoneFilmography

Io, Loro e Lara!

Crew: Director

Grande, Grosso E Verdone

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo Verdone

Synopsis: Italian stage comic Carlo Verdone produced a cult hit with his sophomore cinematic effort, the 1981 Bianco, Rosso e Verdone (Red, White and Verdone Green); the artist both directed that film and essayed a triple role in it, as three goofy characters: Furio, Pasquale and Mimmo. In the original Read More

My Best Enemy

Crew: Director

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Agnese Nano, Paolo Triestino, Silvio Muccino, Ana Caterina Morariu

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Actors: Eugenio Alabisio, Nino Baragli, Claudia Cardinale, Damiano Damiani, Roberto Forges Davanzati

Synopsis: Few American film enthusiasts were even aware that anyone made westerns in Italy before Sergio Leone's breakthrough film, 1964's Per un Pugno di Dollari (aka A Fistful Of Dollars), made Clint Eastwood a worldwide star and introduced audiences to the forbidding beauty and troubling morality of Read More

Manual of Love

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Silvio Muccino, Luciana Littizzetto, Sergio Rubini

Synopsis: Director Giovanni Veronesi interweaves four tales of family tragedy, ill-fated love affairs, eternal passion, and fleeting relationships in a humorous, romantic, and moving look at the lasting effect of love and the human condition. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Amore E Eterno- Finche Dura

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Anita Caprioli, Stefano Pesce, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Italian actor/director Carlo Verdone teams up with screenwriter Piero De Bernardi for the ensemble comedy Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi? (What Fault is it of Ours?). The story follows eight people in a therapy group headed by an elderly psychotherapist who dies of a heart attack during one of their Read More

Zora La Vampira

Crew: Producer

Actors: Toni Bertorelli, Micaela Ramazzotti, Carlo Verdone, Lele Vannoli

C'era un Chinese in coma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

La Gabbianella e il Gatto

Actors: Luis Sepulveda, Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese, Melba Ruffo DiCalabria, Sofia Baratta

Synopsis: This animated feature, based on a best-selling Chilean children's book, was the most expensive Italian cartoon ever at the time of its release, produced at a cost of $6 million. Zorba, a cat, one day finds a dying seagull in his yard, a victim of a recent oil spill. Zorba promises the gull that Read More

Gallo Cedrone

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

Iris Blond

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Viaggi di nozze

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Perdiamoci Di Vista

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Al Lupo Al Lupo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Maledetto Il Giorno Che t'ho Incontrato

Crew: Director

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy

Synopsis: Bernardo (Carlo Verdone) is a historian and a writer. However, as a rock-music historian and as a man who is writing a biography of Jimi Hendrix, he is not the gray, mousy man one might expect. No matter what kind of man he appears to be, though, he is completely devastated when his live-in Read More

Stasera A Casa Di Alice

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Il Bambino e il poliziotto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Compagni Di Scuola

Crew: Director

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

Io E Mia Sorella

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

7 Chili In 7 Giorni

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Renato Pozzetto, Tiziana Pini

Troppo Forte

Crew: Director, 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

Sette Chili in Sette Giorni

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

I Due Carabinieri

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Acqua e Sapone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

In Viaggio Con Papà

Crew: 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

Grand Hotel Excelsior

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

Borotalco

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Bianco, Rosso E Verdone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Elena Fabrizi, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: The stage comedian Carlo Verdone directed and stars as the three main characters -- Furio, Mimmo, and Pasquale -- in this classic Italian comedy. All three men are driving back to their hometowns to vote on election day, and each has a different story and a different though easily recognizable Read More

Luna

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Tomas Milian, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh); while Joe believes that Caterina's husband Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne) is Read More

Un Sacco Bello

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Veronica Miriel, Mario Brega, Renato Scarpa

Synopsis: The format of this tripartite comedy by Carlo Verdone and also starring the Italian comic in all three leads worked so well that he did it again in 1981 with Bianco, Rosso, E Verdone. Like the second film, these three stories also take place on one day, August 15th, when Romans leave town en Read More