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On the Tiger's Back (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A cavallo della tigre
director: Luigi Comencini actor: Nino Manfredi / Mario Adorf
other title: A cavallo della tigre / Vergewaltigt in Ketten
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
The Terrace (1980) [Movie] NeoDB
La terrazza
director: 埃托尔·斯科拉 actor: 维托里奥·加斯曼 / 乌戈·托尼亚齐
other title: 露台 / La terrazza
Expensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.
Le bal (1983) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Le bal
director: 埃托尔·斯科拉 actor: Étienne Guichard / Régis Bouquet
other title: 舞厅 / 舞会
欧洲歌舞电影史上的一部杰作,极富创意,根据舞台制作改编。影片获得柏林影展评审团大奖银熊奖和凯撒奖的最佳电影。
影片简介:
1920年开始,一个舞厅开张了,迎来一批又一批客人,他们在这里跳舞,时代转变着,客人也转变着,从20年代一直到了迪斯科盛行的80年代……
El poder de la mafia (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Mafioso
director: Alberto Lattuada actor: Alberto Sordi / Norma Bengell
other title: Mafioso
Antonio Badalamenti es un honrado siciliano que trabaja y vive en Milán. Llegada la época estival, decide pasar sus vacaciones en Calenzano, su pueblo natal, situación que aprovecha el director de su empresa para enviar un paquete a Don Vincenzo, el jefe de la mafia local. A partir de ese momento el protagonista se verá implicado en los turbios negocios de la mafia
The Band of Honest Men (1956) [Movie] TMDB
La banda degli onesti
director: Camillo Mastrocinque actor: Totò / Peppino De Filippo
other title: La banda degli onesti / Die Bande der Ehrlichen
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
Hotel Room (1981) [Movie] TMDB
Camera d'albergo
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Monica Vitti
other title: Camera d'albergo / Chambre d'hôtel
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
Hurricane Rosie (1980) [Movie] TMDB
Temporale Rosy
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Gérard Depardieu / Faith Minton
other title: Temporale Rosy / Rosy la bourrasque
Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his career ruined. He starts working on a fair; there he meets Hurricane Rosy the first time. When he sees her the next time, she's star of Mike Fernando's women wrestling show. They passionately fall in love, but their their love must survive her rising fame and his violent jealousy
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Signore e signori, buonanotte
director: Luigi Comencini / Nanni Loy actor: Senta Berger / Adolfo Celi
other title: Signore e signori, buonanotte / Mesdames et messieurs bonsoir
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Fathers and Sons (1957) [Movie] TMDB
Padri e figli
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio De Sica / Marcello Mastroianni
other title: Padri e figli / Väter und Söhne
The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
The Doctor and the Healer (1957) [Movie] TMDB
ll medico e lo stregone
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio De Sica / Marcello Mastroianni
other title: ll medico e lo stregone / O Médico e o Charlatão
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Caprice Italian Style (1968) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb
Capriccio all'italiana
director: Mario Monicelli / Steno actor: Totò / Ugo D'Alessio
other title: Capriccio all'italiana / Capricho à Italiana
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
The Passionate Thief (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Risate di gioia
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Anna Magnani / Totò
other title: Risate di gioia / O Ladrão Apaixonado
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Casanova '70 (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Casanova '70
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Virna Lisi
other title: Casanova 70
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970) [Movie] TMDB
Brancaleone alle crociate
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Adolfo Celi
other title: Brancaleone alle crociate / Brancaleone Nas Cruzadas
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
We Want the Colonels (1973) [Movie] TMDB
Vogliamo i colonnelli
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Claude Dauphin
other title: Vogliamo i colonnelli / Nous voulons les colonels
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
High Infidelity (1964) [Movie] TMDB
Alta infedeltà
director: Elio Petri / Mario Monicelli actor: Nino Manfredi / Charles Aznavour
other title: Alta infedeltà / Haute Infidélité
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
Toto and Carolina (1955) [Movie] TMDB
Totò e Carolina
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Totò / Anna Maria Ferrero
other title: Totò e Carolina
During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974) [Movie] TMDB
Romanzo popolare
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Ornella Muti
other title: Romanzo popolare / Romances et Confidences
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.