Mario Cecchi Gori — Producer (39)
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sissignore
director: Ugo Tognazzi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Maria Grazia Buccella …
other title: Sissignore / El fiel servidor
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
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Un italiano en la Argentina (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Il gaucho
director: Dino Risi actor: Vittorio Gassman / Amedeo Nazzari …
other title: Il gaucho / Il Gaucho
Marco (Vittorio Gassman) es un agente de prensa que encabeza una delegación italiana que viaja a Buenos Aires para participar en el festival de cine del Mar del Plata. El grupo será recibido por un emigrante italiano que ha hecho fortuna con el comercio de carne vacuna. Pero Marco conocerá también la otra cara de la emigración italiana en Argentina de la mano de un viejo amigo, Stefano (Nino Manfredi).
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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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The Haunted House (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La casa stregata
director: Bruno Corbucci actor: Renato Pozzetto / Gloria Guida …
other title: La casa stregata / Das verhexte Haus …
George and Lucia are newlyweds and have also been lucky enough to find a home at a low price , very low . Maybe too low . In fact the house is haunted by two lovers who, a thousand years ago, were surprised by the girl's mother who subsequently turned them into pillars of salt . But there is a way to break the magic and free the two lovers caught in the curse and it is all in the hands of the newlyweds on their wedding night . Will they succeed ?
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Crime in Formula One (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Delitto in Formula Uno
director: Bruno Corbucci actor: Tomas Milian / Dagmar Lassander …
other title: Delitto in Formula Uno / Formel 1 und heiße Mädchen …
While keeping an eye on his small time crook brother in law, Inspector Nico Giraldi gets involved in a murder case set in the world of Formula One racing. Giraldi is suspended for trying to cover up for his brother in law and becomes afraid his wife and son may be targeted next. Therefore he calls in the help of his childhood friend and chief informant, Venticello.
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Piedipiatti (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Piedipiatti
director: Carlo Vanzina actor: Renato Pozzetto / Enrico Montesano …
Da Roma a Milano con risoluzione a Venezia, un poliziotto romano e un suo collega milanese seguono le tracce di traffico di droga camuffato in opere di bene. Da una sceneggiatura che brilla per insulsaggine, un film comico all'amatriciana retto da un E. Montesano contenuto e un R. Pozzetto simpatico.
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School of Thieves 2 (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Scuola di ladri - Parte seconda
director: Neri Parenti actor: Paolo Villaggio / Massimo Boldi …
other title: Scuola di ladri - Parte seconda / Gauner haben's schwer
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.
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School of Thieves (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Scuola di ladri
director: Neri Parenti actor: Paolo Villaggio / Lino Banfi …
other title: Scuola di ladri / Klauen will gelernt sein …
Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.
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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 Palermo Connection (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dimenticare Palermo
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Jim Belushi / Mimi Rogers …
other title: Dimenticare Palermo / Palermo vergessen …
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
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Duck in Orange Sauce (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
L'anatra all'arancia
director: Luciano Salce actor: Monica Vitti / Ugo Tognazzi …
other title: L'anatra all'arancia / Pato Com Laranja …
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
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The Con Artists (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bluff - Storia di truffe e di imbroglioni
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Adriano Celentano / Anthony Quinn …
other title: Bluff - Storia di truffe e di imbroglioni / Der Bluffer …
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
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The Dark Sun (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il sole buio
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Michael Paré / Jo Champa …
other title: Il sole buio
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.