Scarpelli — Playwright (70)
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Love and Larceny (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il mattatore
director: Dino Risi actor: Vittorio Gassman / Anna Maria Ferrero …
other title: Il mattatore / Der Meistergauner …
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
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In the Name of the Italian People (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
In nome del popolo italiano
director: Dino Risi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Vittorio Gassman …
other title: In nome del popolo italiano / Abend ohne Alibi …
An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
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The Best of Enemies (1961) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Best of Enemies
director: Guy Hamilton actor: David Niven / Alberto Sordi …
other title: I due nemici / Liebenswerte Gegner …
During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Il maestro di Vigevano
director: Elio Petri actor: Alberto Sordi / Claire Bloom …
other title: Il maestro di Vigevano / Il Maestro di Vigevano
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory.
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Macaroni (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Maccheroni
director: Ettore Scola actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Maccheroni / Macarrones …
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
director: Ettore Scola actor: Alberto Sordi / Bernard Blier …
other title: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? / Nos héros réussiront-ils à retrouver leur ami mystérieusement disparu en Afrique ? …
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
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Unfair Competition (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Concorrenza sleale
director: Ettore Scola actor: Diego Abatantuono / Sergio Castellitto …
other title: Concorrenza sleale / Concurrence déloyale …
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa
director: Ettore Scola actor: Massimo Troisi / Ornella Muti …
other title: Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa / A Viagem do Capitão Tornado …
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 Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
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The Family (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La famiglia
director: Ettore Scola actor: Vittorio Gassman / Fanny Ardant …
other title: La famiglia / Die Familie …
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
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Portrait of a Nude Woman (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Nudo di donna
director: Nino Manfredi / Alberto Lattuada actor: Nino Manfredi / Eleonora Giorgi …
other title: Nudo di donna / Die nackte Frau …
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can no longer reconcile his spontaneous and lively character with that of his wife Laura, a cultured and composed Venetian woman. Yet another argument prompts him to leave her and seek refuge at the home of a painter friend. Among his many paintings, he notices one depicting a naked woman who bears an incredible resemblance to his wife. Are they two women or one, and in the masquerade of the Carnival, what is real?
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Double Murder (1977) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Doppio delitto
director: Steno actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Agostina Belli …
other title: Doppio delitto / Vom Blitz getroffen …
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
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The Police Commissioner (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il Commissario
director: Luigi Comencini actor: Alberto Sordi / Alessandro Cutolo …
other title: Il commissario / Le Commissaire …
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.
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Time to Kill (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tempo di uccidere
director: Giuliano Montaldo actor: Nicolas Cage / Ricky Tognazzi …
other title: Tempo di uccidere / Zeit zu leben, Zeit zu sterben …
During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest army hospital, losing his sanity in the process.