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1. Scent of a Woman (1992)
R | 156 min | Drama
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar
Votes: 330,351 | Gross: $63.90M
2. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi
Votes: 1,060
3. The Easy Life (1962)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Votes: 12,511
4. Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello
Votes: 2,541
5. Scent of a Woman (1974)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli, Moira Orfei
Votes: 5,180
6. First Love (1978)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Ugo Cremonesi, left without work and awaiting liquidation, leaves the world of the vaudeville momentarily and takes refuge in Villa Serena, a shelter for old artists.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Mario Del Monaco, Caterina Boratto
Votes: 520
7. The Prophet (1968)
PG | 100 min | Comedy
A man who has long decided to abandon the strain of modern life becomes a hermit and lives for years in seclusion on Monte Soratte. One day, he is discovered by a TV crew, and against his will, he gets sucked back into civilization.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ann-Margret, Vittorio Gassman, Oreste Lionello, Liana Orfei
Votes: 360
8. Vita coi figli (1991 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
A recently-widowed father of five finds himself overwhelmed when he's left to play father and mother to a group of kids in whose lives he hadn't taken a whole lot of interest in a long time, if ever.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Corinne Cléry, Monica Bellucci, Nicola Farron
Votes: 192
9. Weekend, Italian Style (1965)
90 min | Comedy
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Sandra Milo, Daniela Bianchi, Trini Alonso
Votes: 453
10. The Forbidden Room (1977)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina
Votes: 1,322
11. The Dolls (1965)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 383
12. Sesso e volentieri (1982)
101 min | Comedy
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Johnny Dorelli, Laura Antonelli, Gloria Guida, Jackie Basehart
Votes: 198
13. A Difficult Life (1961)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi
Votes: 2,198
14. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 1,713
15. Sunday Lovers (1980)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, the U.S., and Italy).
Directors: Bryan Forbes, Édouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, Gene Wilder | Stars: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Gene Wilder
Votes: 432
16. Fast and Sexy (1958)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
Directors: Reginald Denham, Carlo Lastricati | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Dale Robertson, Amedeo Nazzari
Votes: 239
17. The Sign of Venus (1955)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone
Votes: 1,631
18. The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker, Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Votes: 486
19. Teresa (1987)
98 min | Drama
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Serena Grandi, Luca Barbareschi, Eros Pagni, Flora Carosello
Votes: 171
20. Dirty Weekend (1973)
107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André, Lionel Stander
Votes: 561
21. Love in the City (1953)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini | Stars: Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia, Donatella Marrosu
Votes: 1,473
22. Viva Italia! (1977)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
Directors: Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 2,117
23. The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
104 min | Comedy, Crime
An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Harry Guardino
Votes: 1,775
24. Running Away (1989 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 181 min | Drama
This tense story is set during World War II Italy. A mother and her daughter flee what once was the safety of Rome to seek refuge in the mountains. Their journey turns out to be one they could never have imagined.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Robert Loggia, Andrea Occhipinti, Carla Calò
Votes: 225
25. I complessi (1965)
107 min | Comedy
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. In the second part, Prof. Beozi, in order to avoid a scandal, ends up in a raid of... See full summary »
Directors: Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 924
26. Anna (1951)
107 min | Drama, Romance
Anna is a nurse and a nun, whose history catches up on her.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay, Raf Vallone, Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 460
27. Sono fotogenico (1980)
114 min | Comedy
Antonio Barozzi, an aspiring actor, goes to Rome to seek both fame and fortune.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech, Aldo Maccione, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 533
28. How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Exploring love, sex and marriage in contemporary mid-'70s Italy.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Paola Borboni, Alberto Lionello
Votes: 738
29. The Monsters (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca, Marino Masé
Votes: 2,787
30. The Priest's Wife (1970)
PG | 103 min | Comedy
Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Venantino Venantini, Jacques Stany
Votes: 723 | Gross: $0.04M
31. Vedo nudo (1969)
117 min | Comedy
Seven episodes light-heartedly revolving around sexuality and eros with seven funny characters all played by great Nino Manfredi.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Véronique Vendell, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 529
32. Un amore a Roma (1960)
107 min | Drama, Romance
A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Mylène Demongeot, Elsa Martinelli, Peter Baldwin, Claudio Gora
Votes: 312
33. Le bon roi Dagobert (1984)
112 min | Comedy
The caravan of the lazy king Dagobert is attacked by robbers who massacre the guards and rape the women. Dagobert escapes and becomes a penitent on a pilgrimage to Rome with the Pope.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Carole Bouquet
Votes: 510
34. Love and Larceny (1960)
103 min | Comedy
Gerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto
Votes: 849
35. Giovani e belli (1996)
90 min | Comedy
In Rome Luca, looking for himself and coming from a very wealthy family, got to know Gino, who lives by expedients and petty thefts.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Anna Falchi, Luca Venantini, Edoardo Scatà, Gina Rovere
Votes: 101
36. Vacanze col gangster (1952)
90 min | Comedy
Five kids, schoolmates, Gianni, Andrea, Mario, Ugo and Nino, playing with each other, break a papier-mâché horseback, inside which is a note written by a lifer, in his opinion unjustly ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala, Terence Hill, Lamberto Maggiorani
Votes: 100
37. Le ragazze di Miss Italia (2002 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy
A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Christiane Filangieri, Alessandra Meloni, Nadia Bengala, Barbara Chiappini
Votes: 36
38. The Widower (1959)
91 min | Comedy
A mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Nando Bruno
Votes: 1,483
39. Poor But Beautiful (1957)
101 min | Comedy, Romance
Romolo and Salvatore are two young men who are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto
Votes: 792
40. Tolgo il disturbo (1990)
94 min | Drama
Augusto Scribani is an old retiree, cultured and genteel, who comes to Rome to visit his children and his granddaughter Rosa.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dominique Sanda, Elliott Gould, Valentina Holtkamp
Votes: 193
41. The Montecarlo Story (1956)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deeply-in-debt gambler sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless.
Director: Samuel A. Taylor | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell, Jane Rose
Votes: 442
42. The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
120 min | Comedy
A young chambermaid from Venice who is a fan of Italian "Telefoni bianchi" cinema of the fascist era decides to follow her dream and goes to Rome hoping to become an actress.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Agostina Belli, Cochi Ponzoni, Maurizio Arena, William Berger
Votes: 480
43. Fantasma d'amore (1981)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 826
44. Il giovedì (1964)
105 min | Drama
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Walter Chiari, Michèle Mercier, Roberto Ciccolini, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 400
45. Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968)
104 min | Comedy
Marino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin, Moira Orfei
Votes: 613
46. Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Marisa Allasio, Ingeborg Schöner, Niki Dantine
Votes: 479
47. Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
91 min | Comedy
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Lino Banfi, Maurizio Ferrini, Maurizio Micheli, Isabel Russinova
Votes: 771
48. Il successo (1963)
104 min | Comedy
With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What's the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?
Directors: Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Cristina Gaioni
Votes: 294
49. A Film és... I.-XIV (1995– )
50 min | Documentary
This popular television series, made for the 100th anniversary of film, titled A film es, (English title "The Cinema and") has had several broadcasts since 1995 and is considered a classic ... See full summary »
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Ben Gazzara, Ennio Morricone, Paul Mazursky
50. Noi donne siamo fatte così (1971)
112 min | Comedy
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Monica Vitti, Carlo Giuffrè, Enrico Maria Salerno, Ettore Manni
Votes: 189