Scarpelli — Playwright (69)
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Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
Romanzo popolare TMDB
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.
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Figaro qua... Figaro là (1950)
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Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza …
In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
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Sette ore di guai (1951)
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Marcello Marchesi / Vittorio Metz actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza …
Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
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Toto the Third Man (1951)
Totò terzo uomo TMDB
Mario Mattoli actor: Totò / Elli Parvo …
other title: Totò terzo uomo
In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
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Tototarzan (1950)
Tototarzan TMDB
Mario Mattoli actor: Totò / Marilyn Buferd …
other title: Totó Tarzán
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
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Toto and the Women (1952)
Totò e le donne TMDB
Steno / Mario Monicelli actor: Totò / Peppino De Filippo …
other title: Totò e le donne / Totò und die Frauen …
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
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47 Talking Corpses (1950)
47 morto che parla TMDB
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Totò / Silvana Pampanini …
other title: 47 morto che parla / Der tolle Juxbaron …
Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
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Totò cerca moglie (1950)
Totò cerca moglie TMDB
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Totò / Ave Ninchi …
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Totò cerca casa (1949)
Totò cerca casa TMDB
Mario Monicelli / Steno actor: Totò / Alda Mangini …
other title: Totò cherche un appartement / Totò busca piso
Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
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I cadetti di Guascogna (1950)
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Mario Mattoli actor: Walter Chiari / Carlo Campanini …
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
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Totó in color (1952)
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Steno actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza …
other title: Totò a colori / 托托的色彩美学观 …
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
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The New Monsters (1977)
I nuovi mostri IMDb TMDB
Mario Monicelli / Dino Risi … actor: Alberto Sordi / Vittorio Gassman …
other title: I nuovi mostri / Viva Italia …
A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
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Everybody Go Home! (1960)
Tutti a casa
Luigi Comencini actor: Alberto Sordi / Eduardo De Filippo …
other title: Tutti a casa / Regresso ao Lar …
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
Io, io, io... e gli altri TMDB
Alessandro Blasetti actor: Gina Lollobrigida / Silvana Mangano …
other title: Io, io, io... e gli altri / Moi, moi, moi et les autres …
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
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Il tassinaro (1983)
Il tassinaro TMDB
Alberto Sordi actor: Alberto Sordi / Liù Bosisio …
Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87".
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The Terrace (1980)
La terrazza
Ettore Scola actor: Vittorio Gassman / Ugo Tognazzi …
other title: La terrazza / Die Terrasse …
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
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The Great War (1959)
La grande guerra
Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Alberto Sordi …
other title: La grande guerra / Man nannte es den großen Krieg …
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
I soliti ignoti
Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Renato Salvatori …
other title: I soliti ignoti / Os Eternos Desconhecidos …
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.