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Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More
Crew: Director
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Valerio Mastrandrea, Sabrina Impacciatore, Arnoldo Foa, Stefania Sandrelli, Antonello Fassari
Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Castellitto, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich
Synopsis: The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) is a tailor who is beginning to lose business to Leone (Sergio Castellito), a haberdasher whose shop is next door to Umberto's. Leone offers Read More
Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Lea Gramsdorff, Eros Pagni
Synopsis: This complexly plotted comedy interweaves snippets from the lives of nearly 40 diverse patrons sitting at 14 tables in a little Italian trattoria. Though the diners come from all levels of society, most are bound by one or two common threads: their engagement in illicit romantic affairs and the Read More
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
Actors: Giulio Scarpati, Valeria Cavalli, Laura Betti, Willer Bordon
Synopsis: A young Italian Communist couple come to grips with the fall of Italy's Communist Party and find themselves drifting apart in this Italian-French drama. As the Berlin Wall collapsed in the late '80s, so did the Italian Communist Party. In it's stead has come the more left-wing party the PDS. Since Read More
Actors: Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti, Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean-François Perrier
Synopsis: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Read More
Actors: Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud, Renato Moretti, Lou Castel
Synopsis: Marcello (Marcello Mastroiano) has worked hard all his life to achieve a certain standing and success as a lawyer in Rome. He is pleased to be able to offer the fruits of his success to his son Michele (Massimo Troisi), and is perplexed and distressed that his unambitious son has no interest in Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady, Paolo Panelli, Pamela Villoresi
Synopsis: The celebration of and homage to the language of cinema unites not only the three central characters of this film, but is the character of the film itself. This is the story of a man whose entire life has been shaped and supported by the movies. Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) grew up at his Read More
Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Andrea Occhipinti, Alberto Gimignani
Synopsis: A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday. Young Carlo (Andrea Massimo) marries Beatrice (Stefania Sandrelli) in 1926 but later has an illicit affair with her bohemian artist sister Adriana (Fanny Ardant). Read More
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli, Maria Luisa Santella
Synopsis: Ettore Scola directed this light comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Marcello Mastroianni that Scola calls "a story about two men who have reached the age where you look back and take stock." Lemmon plays business executive Robert Traven, who returns Naples for the first time since 1946, when he had Read More
Actors: Etienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco de Rosa, Arnault Lecarpentier, Liliane Delval
Synopsis: A unique look at the history of 20th century France as illustrated in popular culture, Le Bal is set in a Parisian dance hall and features no narrative, no dialogue, and no continuous characters. The film moves from one dance number to the next, as the music reflects the political and cultural Read More
Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy
Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More
Actors: Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Laura Antonelli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Massimo Girotti
Synopsis: Professional soldier Bernard Giraudeau is enmeshed in an affair with the beautiful but very much married Laura Antonelli. Transferred to a remote outpost, Giraudeau discovers to his chagrin that the only woman in the region (Valeria D'Obici) is about as appealing as a plate of pickles. Even so, Giraudeau Read More
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli
Synopsis: Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards Read More
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
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Synopsis: The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues Read More
Synopsis: In this episodic anthology, written and directed by assorted Italian filmmakers, the political and social aspects of Italian life are chronicled. In one satirical episode, The Bomb, a bogus bomb threat at a police headquarters gradually balloons into a real terrorist plot culminating with the Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi
Synopsis: Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in reference to the lower-class characters and surroundings in this Ettore Scola film. Scola zeroes in on a particularly offensive Roman family. The stingy patriarch, Nino Manfredi Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli
Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More
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
Synopsis: In this Italian film set in the U.S., Marcello Mastrioanni stars as sweet-natured Sicilian immigrant Rocco, a former boxing champion. In the story, he comes to Chicago with a friend to see a boxing match. After the match, his friend leaves him alone in the town, and Rocco grows more and more Read More
Actors: Hercules Cortes, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marisa Merlini
Synopsis: The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The Read More
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Gaetano Cimarosa, Veronique Vendell
Synopsis: Pepe (Ugo Tognazzi) is the progressive chief of police in a small Italian town. Using his brains instead of his gun, his investigations net far more results than the traditional cops. Most of his inquiries involve arresting prostitutes and orgy organizers and halting gay and Lesbian lechers from Read More
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
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey
Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More
Synopsis: Fifteen "monsters of modern Rome" are presented in this Italian episodic drama. Each of these "monsters" is highly misanthropic and nasty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Mickey Rooney, Claudine Auger, Annabella Incontrera
Synopsis: This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Relfagor (Vittorio Gassman) and his faithful sidekick Adramalek (Mickey Rooney) start out by disintegrating the peace soon to take place between Rome and Florence. While traveling, they manage to seduce the wife of an Read More
Actors: Marina Berti, Anna Magnani, Andrea Checchi, Virna Lisi, Lando Buzzanca, 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
Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Hoffman, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf
Synopsis: Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big city in this somber moral drama. She has a series of affairs that are just for fun, but she becomes depressed when she desperately looks for a more meaningful relationship. Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Joan Collins, Jacques Bergerac, Hilda Barry
Synopsis: In this caper comedy designed for international distribution, Jane (Joan Collins) and Don Giuliano (Vittorio Gassman) are part of a group of currency smugglers who are trying to get their gang's money over the border into Swiss banks. They are following a plan designed by their crafty mastermind Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Philippe Nicaud, Michéle Girardon, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More
Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the title. Prior to this feature, Gassman had worked with both Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, Monica Vitti, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Synopsis: In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and insensitive husband is unaware that his lonely wife has been flirting with a young buck at a vacation resort. When the husband finally finds out, he gets jealous and the marriage is Read More
Crew: Short Story Author
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini, Nino Manfredi, Maria Grazia Buccella
Synopsis: Maruchelli (Amedeo Nazzari) is an Italian expatriate who has made his fortune in Argentina. When he throws a lavish party to impress his Italian guests, his stone-faced friend Stefano (Nino Manfredi) feels the sting of not being as successful as his host. Vittorio Gassman co-stars with Silvana Pampanini Read More
Actors: Sandra Milo, François Perier, Mario Adorf, Gastone Moschin
Synopsis: In this drama, a single woman approaching 40 grows bored of her affair with a married trucker and writes to a singles column. She ends up paired with an outwardly conservative bookstore clerk. During their date, he drinks and soon turns into a rude, crude, drunken slob. She is mortified until he Read More
Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maria Grazia Spina
Actors: Catherine Spaak, Nino Manfredi, Salvo Randone, Didi Perego, Lando Buzzanca
Synopsis: Catherine Spaak was only eighteen, yet already known, when she co-starred in this comedy-drama with Nino Manfredi. She plays naive young woman Dora, who heads for the big city and a lot of growing up. Her exploits are mainly centered on the men she meets as she flits from one to the next without a Read More
Actors: Claudia Mori, Catherine Spaak, Vittorio Gassman
Synopsis: Romance, sex, and marriage are the themes of this episodic Italian comedy. The first of the four vignettes, "The Women" tells the story of a bored adulterer who feels ignored by his gaggle of mistresses and decides to obsess upon seducing an old conquest one more time. He later inadvertently Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini
Synopsis: Regarded by many as Dino Risi's finest film, The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) casts Vittorio Gassman as Bruno, a jaded, aging roue, who introduces young Roberto Mariani Jean-Louis Trintignant to his hedonistic lifestyle.. Previously a man with a purpose in life, Roberto soon becomes as wanton and Read More
Actors: Simone Signoret, Gina Rovere, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Claudio Gora
Synopsis: Four unemployed prostitutes attempt to open a restaurant in this comedy. They look all over Rome for a restaurant they can afford. When they find a ramshackle cafe. The landlord is willing to let them have it; they can even use his name to buy the food license, but he has one condition: they must Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Valerie
Synopsis: In spite of its title, this sex comedy by director Luciano Salce is not another mythic costume drama with Steve Reeves in the lead. Instead, those little pills mentioned in the title are Herculean in their impact on the sexual drives of anyone who takes them. According to this tale, long before Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto, Peppino De Filippo
Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman showcases his comic talents in this farce by director Dino Risi about the growing success of a con artist. Gerardo (Gassman) starts out as a vaudeville performer and noting that acting abilities can be used for less legit purposes, he creatively assumes different guises in order Read More
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
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
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