Nino ManfrediFilmography

Un Difetto di Famiglia

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Lino Banfi, Carlo Cascone, Elena D'Urso, Simone Corrente

La Carbonara

Actors: Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Nino Manfredi, Valerio Mastandrea, Fabrizio Gifuni, Claudio Amendola

Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker Luigi Magni helms this gorgeously-photographed work set during the tumult of mid-19th century Rome. The film focuses on vivacious Cecilla (Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere), innkeeper and creator of renowned spaghetti, and on the Carbonari secret society that agitates against the Read More

Colpo di luna

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Nino Manfredi, Isabelle Pasco, Jim Van Der Woude

Synopsis: In this Italian drama an astrophysicist returns to his birthplace and re-discovers his humanity. Lorenzo needs money. He stops his research in Milan and goes to his former childhood villa in Sicily to sell it. Because workers are renovating it, he must linger longer than he wanted. He begins to Read More

De Vliegende Hollander

Actors: Rene Groothof, Nino Manfredi, Veerle Dobbelaere, Gene Bervoets, Rene van't Hof

Synopsis: This Dutch adventure drama chronicles the birth and preservation of a Flemish legend. The tale begins in mid-16th century Flanders when Spain ruled the area. A peasant revolt is in progress and a gang of rebels is seen lugging the giant head of a statue onto Nettelneck's farm. Just then the Read More

Mima

Actors: Virginie Ledoyen, Nino Manfredi, Margarita Lozano, Vittoria Scognamiglio

Synopsis: Mima (Virginie Ledoyen), like her parents, was born in France. However, her family originated in Italy and is determined to remain true to its roots. This causes some mixed feelings in the girl, who feels at least as French as Italian. She has no questions however, about how much she loves her Read More

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

Actors: Kari Väänänen, Roberta Manfredi, Nino Manfredi, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Margi Clarke

Synopsis: Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches. With two dead men and a suitcase filled with hundred dollar bills, he has difficulty disposing of the bodies. He is chased by the top crime boss (Samuel Fuller) and his crony (Eddie Constantine Read More

Alberto Express

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Nino Manfredi, Jeanne Moreau, Marco Messeri, Marie Trintignant

Synopsis: Alberto's family traditions are quite unusual. Living in Paris with his pregnant wife, he is now expected to return to Rome to pay back every cent that his family spent raising him. Totally without the kind of money expected of him, as Alberto speeds by train toward his family he tries to raise Read More

In Nome Del Popolo Sovrano

Secondo Ponzio Pilato

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Scaccia, Flavio Bucci, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: Nino Manfredi plays Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who carried out the execution of Jesus. He ignores several signs that proclaim that Jesus is the son of God, including the faith of his wife Claudia (Stefania Sandrelli). Pilate is tormented by his actions and later offers his life to Roman Read More

I Picari

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Giancarlo Giannini, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Giuliana de Sio

Synopsis: In one popular Spanish-English dictionary, "picaro" is defined as "roguish; scheming, tricky; low, vile; mischievous," and when used as a noun it refers to a rogue, a schemer. Yet the word also harkens to the kinds of novels (picaresque) that came out of Spain in the 17th century, including Don Read More

Grandi Magazzini

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

Il Tenente Dei Carabinieri

Questo E Quello

Testa O Croce

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Mara Venier, Nino Manfredi, Ida Di Benedetto, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: In back-to-back stories that are unrelated to each other except through a few shared stabs at sexual and social morés, director Nanni Loy and the two featured stars (and co-writers) Renato Pozzetto and Nino Manfredi have fun with some "taboo" themes. In the first story, Don Emidio (Pozzetto) is Read More

Spaghetti House

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Rita Tushingham, Derek Martin

Synopsis: In this silly Italian comedy, a trio of robbers burst into an Italian restaurant and place its five employees in a storage room to hold them hostage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nudo Di Donna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: A situation that once (believe it or not) served as the premise for a Dick Van Dyke Show is taken several steps farther in the Italian Nudo di Donna. Nino Manfredi plays a prudish husband who is appalled to discover that his wife once posed nude for a painting. His shock is intensified when word Read More

Cafe Express

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Marzio C. Honorato, Gigi Reder

Synopsis: This entertaining, light comedy is carried on the shoulders of Nino Manfredi, who plays a gypsy coffee vendor illegally selling expresso on trains. Inventive, creative, and needing to stay several steps ahead of the conductors and other bureaucrats out to shut down his operation, the cafe artist Read More

La Mazzetta

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Marisa Laurito

Synopsis: Nothing in his background has given Saso Iovine (Nino Manfredi) any preparation for the sticky situations he encounters when he is hired by the crooked building contractor Don Michele to find his daughter Giulia, and some important (and legally damaging) documents she stole from him before running Read More

In Nome Del Papa Re

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Giovannella Grifea, Carlo Bagno

Synopsis: Italian actor/director Nino Manfredi gives an award-calibre performance in In the Name of the Pope-King. He plays a magistrate in a small region under the realm of Papal rule. Manfredi faces the legal battle of his life when his own son is accused of being a terrorist. Justice, mercy, and love 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

Signore e Signori Buonanotte

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

Down and Dirty

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

Attenti al Buffone

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eli Wallach, Mariangela Melato, Enzo Cannavale

Synopsis: In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man's wife as his own. Unlike David, however, Ras wants to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined. He forces Marcello Read More

We All Loved Each Other So Much

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

Bread and Chocolate

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A hard-working Sicilian heads for Switzerland in search of a better life in this gentle, sweet-sour Italian comedy. Despite the poor fellow's best efforts to fit in with his neighbors, he never quite seems to make it. Of course his tragedy is the audience's delight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Lo Chiameremo Andrea

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Lo Chiameremo Andrea is an Italian comedy by famed director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of Paolo (Nino Manfredi) and Maria (Mariangela Melato) two elementary schoolteachers whose "biological clock" is ticking. They have been married for some time, and desperately want a child of their Read More

Girolimoni - Il Mostro Di Roma

Actors: Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: This curious film attempts to mix suspense and comedy as it details the efforts of Mussolini's Italy to deal with the public outcry over a series of child sex murders. "Il Duce" must find someone to serve as a plausible culprit in order to restore public order and calm fears. While Girolomoni (Nino Manfredi Read More

Trastevere

Actors: Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: This Italian movie is as much a love song to a place as a story. The place is the bohemian quarter in Rome known as the Trastevere. It is been compared to the Left Bank in Paris. This film features highly professional actors, a colorful setting, and very salty Italian dialogue. Actor/director Fausto Tozzi Read More

Roma Bene

Per Grazia Ricevuta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Per Grazia Ricevuta (released in the US by The Cross-Eyed Priest) is a semi-autobiographical work from Italian actor/writer/director Nino Manfredi. The central character, played by Manfredi, is a young man whose obsessive lifelong devotion to Saint Eusebie has caused him to forego romance and a Read More

La Betia

Actors: Rosanna Schiaffino, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: This ribald comedy is based on a classic 16th-century play, La Betia, by the playwright Ruzante. The story is simple enough: Zilio (Nino Manfredi), a peasant handyman, agrees to help his friend (Smoki Samardi) marry the woman of his dreams (Rosanna Schiaffino). His stipulation is that when they Read More

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

Operation Snafu

Synopsis: Don't confuse this 1970 Italian/Yugoslav Operation Snafu with the 1962 British comedy-drama of the same name. While the earlier film boasted an engaging story and a boisterous early appearance by Sean Connery, the 1970 film is a witless mess. Even star Peter Falk fails to raise a laugh in his role 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

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

Straziami, Ma Di Baci Saziami

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Pamela Tiffin, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: A romance between a young woman factory worker and a barber is stopped when her parents raise protests over her relationship with the man. When rumors of the romance run rampant in the small town, she leaves for Rome. She takes a job as an assistant to a deaf-mute tailor and eventually accepts his Read More

Italian Secret Service

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Françoise Prevost, Clive Revill, Jean Sobieski, Giampiero Albertini

Synopsis: In this satire, former Italian Resistance hero Natalino (Nino Manfredi) finds himself a total failure as a civilian. He becomes a mercenary when U.S. agents hire him to assassinate a neo-Nazi spy attempting to sneak his soft-drink formula to the communists. The Americans are to pay him $100,000 Read More

Jeux D'Adultes

Actors: Leslie Caron, Nino Manfredi, Claudine Auger, Ugo Tognazzi

Il Padre Di Famiglia

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Leslie Caron, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Head of the Family (IL Padre de Famiglia) is a sparse seriocomic effort directed and co-written by Italian documentary filmmaker Nanni Loy. When his wife Leslie Caron announces she is pregnant, Nino Manfredi is at first overjoyed. His delight dwindles into quiet desperation as his little family Read More

Una Rosa Per Tutti

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Akim Tamiroff, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: In this comedy, a lovely woman lives and loves freely. Her many lovers do not mind and all are happy until one of the men gets possessive and knocks her around. As the woman recovers in the hospital, her physician suggest she try monogamy for a while. She does, but it is not as much fun and so Read More

Operazione San Gennaro

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Harry Guardino, Totò

Synopsis: In this comedy, two Yankee con artists pose as tourists visiting scenic Naples. There they intend to rob an old church. Before pulling the caper, the two enlist the aid of a local criminal. The theft succeeds, but afterwards the crooks begin double-crossing each other. Murder and mayhem ensues as Read More

Adulterio All'italiana

Actors: Maria Grazia Buccella, Catherine Spaak, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the Read More

Io, Io, Io...E Gli Altri

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Director Alessandro Blasetti used an all-star Italian cast for this satirical comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of humans and uses one character to link a series of comic vignettes. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Cannon Serenade

Synopsis: High-seas battles between a confiscated Italian steamer and British subs during WW II. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide 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

Io la Conoscevo Bene

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

Bambole!

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

Every Man's Woman

Synopsis: Jealousy between the men in love with one woman cannot be contained by the woman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Questa Volta Parliamo Di Uomini

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Luciana Paluzzi, Milena Vukotic, Margaret Lee, Patrizia de Clara

Synopsis: Just before he became an even greater movie star, Nino Manfredi starred in a number of less well-known films. Among his best efforts from the end of this period is this film, where he plays four different kinds of male scoundrels in a series of smaller stories, all written and directed by Lina Wertmuller Read More

El Verdugo

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, Angel Alvarez

Synopsis: The business of death provides the framework for this black comedy about a mortician's assistant who wants to marry an executioner's daughter. Her father really wants to change professions, but cannot, as he will lose his new government-sponsored apartment. The young man is persuaded to take over Read More

Alta Infedeltà

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

Controsesso

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Renzo Marignano, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: The Italians continue their penchant for gang-directed features in this sexploitation comedy. Part one is entitled "Cocaine On Sunday" in which a husband (Nino Manfredi) and wife (Annamaria Ferrero) start snorting the stuff after the friend who owned the bottle is arrested. In part two, Ugo Tognazzi Read More

Il Goucho

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

La Parmigiana

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

L'Amore Difficile

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Anni Ruggenti

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Gino Cervi, Salvo Randone, Michele Mercier, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: When an insurance salesman comes to a small Italian town, he is mistaken for a Fascist official sent from Rome. He is greeted by town officials and has an audience with a man plotting a resistance movement. The innocent salesman is caught up in the political upheaval that swept Italy in the days Read More

A Cavallo Della Tigre

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Gian Maria Volontè, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. His ineptitude lands him in jail where he meets up with slightly more hardened criminals 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

Le Pillole di Ercole

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

Audace Colpo dei Soliti Ignoti

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The task seems simple enough, but the gang suffers a variety of zany mishaps before the leader finally gets hold of the money. Just as he gets it, he is arrested by the police for Read More

Carmela E Una Bambola

Venezia, la Luna e Tu

Guardia, Ladro E Cameriera

Pezzo, Capopezzo e Capitano

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Heinz Reincke, Folco Lulli, Lianella Carell, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: This German-Italian production was also released as Kanonenseranade and The Muzzle. Vittorio De Sica stars as Ernesto DeRossi, captain of a vegetable-transport steamer in WWII Italy. After a desultory confrontation with a British midget submarine (which chooses not to fire upon DeRossi's vessel) Read More

Adorabili E Bugiarde

Totò, Peppino e...la malafemmina

Actors: Totò

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

Gli Innamorati

Actors: Franco Interlenghi, Antonella Lualdi, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini Read More

La Domenica Della Buona Gente

Family Flaw

Synopsis: A straight-laced father and his not-so-straight brother come together under strange circumstances in this comedy from Italy. Only a few days before his daughter Chiara (Elena D'Urso) is to be married, Nicolo Gammarota (Lino Banfi) gets the sad news that his mother has passed on. Now Nicolo must Read More