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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).
Love and Larceny (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il mattatore
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.
Macaroni (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Maccheroni
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.
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?
Unfair Competition (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Concorrenza sleale
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.
People of Rome (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Gente di Roma
other title: Gente di Roma / Gente de Roma
Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus driver...gay night life... sunrise at Piazza Navona, a noble man and a tramp are sitting together. - - - Gente di Roma is a 2003 Italian comedy mockumentary film directed by Ettore Scola. It is close to Federico Fellini's Roma. The film is dedicated to Alberto Sordi, who Scola wanted to close the film, as a noble man, but he could not film him because he died. Scola's daughters helped to co-write the script. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Police Chief Pepe (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Il commissario Pepe
other title: Il commissario Pepe / Le Fouineur
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
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.
How Strange to be Named Federico (2013) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Che strano chiamarsi Federico
other title: Che strano chiamarsi Federico / Que Estranho Chamar-se Federico
On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini's death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of his personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as his drawings and film clips.
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.
The Bachelor (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Lo scapolo
other title: Lo scapolo / O Solteirão
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
The Girl from Parma (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La parmigiana
other title: La parmigiana / Das Mädchen aus Parma
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
Let's Talk About Women (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Se permettete parliamo di donne
other title: Se permettete parliamo di donne / Frivole Spiele
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
Ghosts of Rome (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fantasmi a Roma
other title: Fantasmi a Roma / Das Spukschloß in der Via Veneto
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
The Visitor (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La visita
other title: La visita / Der Ehekandidat
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.