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1. Amici miei (1975)
R | 140 min | Comedy, Drama
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret, Duilio Del Prete
Votes: 8,003
2. Brancaleone alle Crociate (1970)
116 min | Adventure, Fantasy, History
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.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Sandro Dori, Beba Loncar
Votes: 1,996
3. Water and Sugar (2016)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life and work of Italian cinematographer, Carlo di Palma.
Director: Fariborz Kamkari | Stars: Carlo Di Palma, Carlo Vanzina, Valentina Di Palma, Giuliano Montaldo
Votes: 134
4. Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)
83 min | Documentary
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).
Directors: Mario Canale, Felice Farina, Mario Gianni, Wilma Labate, Annarosa Morri | Stars: Lorenzo Baraldi, Andrea Bertini, Giuseppe Biancalana, Margherita Buy
Votes: 22
5. Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Giulio's jealousy gets in the way of their happiness ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Michele Placido, Pippo Starnazza
Votes: 851
6. Alberto il grande (2013)
98 min | Documentary
Directors: Carlo Verdone, Luca Verdone | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Carlo Verdone, Gigi Proietti
Votes: 22
7. Enrico Lucherini: Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori (2014)
70 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and career of the first and most prominent publicist in Italy: from Ben Hur to La Dolce Vita, from Sophia Loren to Luchino Visconti, Enrico Lucherini is the most important icon of Italian cinema industry golden age.
Director: Marco Spagnoli | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Cristiana Capotondi, Piero Chiambretti, Gabriel Garko
Votes: 8
8. A Beautiful Vacation (2006)
56 min | Documentary
Director: Francesca Molteni | Stars: Dino Risi, Valerio Caprara, Tullio Kezich, Walter Veltroni
Votes: 9
9. Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
98 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 661
10. L'ultimo gattopardo: Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010)
104 min | Documentary
A documentary about the producer and Titanus president Goffredo Lombardo.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Renzo Arbore, Dario Argento, Pippo Baudo, Alberto Bevilacqua
Votes: 97
11. While There's War There's Hope (1974)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Silvia Monti, Alessandro Cutolo, Matilde Costa Giuffrida
Votes: 580
12. Colpita da improvviso benessere (1976)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.
Director: Franco Giraldi | Stars: Giovanna Ralli, Stefano Satta Flores, Glauco Onorato, Renato Scarpa
Votes: 53
13. Totò e le donne (1952)
103 min | Comedy
Scaparro, who works in a fabric store, must deal with irritating clients, and when he comes home he finds an unsatisfied, intrusive wife.
Directors: Steno, Mario Monicelli | Stars: Totò, Lea Padovani, Franca Faldini, Ave Ninchi
Votes: 377
14. Polvere di stelle (1973)
142 min | Comedy, Musical
Mimmo Adami and Dea Dani are local professional dancers in the impoverished Italy of World War II. Their lives change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, John Phillip Law, Edoardo Faieta
Votes: 480
15. Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982)
95 min | Comedy, Sport
The misadventures of three soccer fans, all played by Abatantuono.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Massimo Boldi, Teo Teocoli, Stefania Sandrelli
Votes: 1,404
16. Caro Michele (1976)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Michele is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément, Lou Castel
Votes: 245
17. Il decimo clandestino (1989 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Sanda, Hartmut Becker, Susanna Marcomeni
Votes: 15
18. Gioco di società (1989 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Lina Sastri, Mario Adorf, Alessandro Haber, Pamela Prati
Votes: 8
19. Time for Loving (1983)
94 min | Comedy
Summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Jerry Calà, Virna Lisi, Christian De Sica, Marina Suma
Votes: 1,112
20. Vacanze di Natale (1983)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has little money, falls in love with American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Jerry Calà, Christian De Sica, Karina Huff, Claudio Amendola
Votes: 1,585
21. Per amore del mio popolo (2014– )
Drama
don Diana, il prete che cercò di aiutare la gente nei momenti resi difficili dalla camorra, negli anni del dominio assoluto della camorra casalese, legata principalmente al boss Francesco ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Elena Cucci, Federico Torre, Mariella Di Lauro, Massimo De Lorenzo
Votes: 26
22. Toh è morta la nonna! (1969)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Sirena Adgemova, Carole André, Wanda Capodaglio, Peter Chatel
Votes: 106
23. Piper - La serie (2009– )
Comedy
Stars: Nathalie Rapti Gomez, Claudio Ammendola, Elena Cucci, Clizia Fornasier
Votes: 16
24. Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
PG | 72 min | Documentary, History
The story of first Italian cinematic divas and their sometimes dangerous relationships with politics, drugs, excesses in the shade of Cinecittà's Studios birth.
Director: Marco Spagnoli | Stars: Vinicio Marchioni, Benito Mussolini, Vittorio Mussolini, Franco Mariotti
Votes: 74
25. Transplant (1970)
86 min | Comedy
To satisfy his wife, an elderly man has to have a penis transplant and is willing to pay a lot to do so. Three men are selected who for different reasons are forced to accept but giving up manhood can be more complicated than expected.
Director: Steno | Stars: Carlo Giuffrè, Graziella Granata, Roberto Camardiel, Rafael Alonso
Votes: 89
26. Anastasia mio fratello (1973)
87 min | Comedy, Crime
Background Information: Padre Salvatore Gabriele Anastasio (Anastasia) arrived at Santa Lucia Church in an Italian-American section of the North Bronx in 1951. He was assistant pastor there... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Richard Conte, Luciano Pigozzi, Edoardo Faieta
Votes: 119
27. Tre colonne in cronaca (1990)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Muslim terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Massimo Dapporto, Sergio Castellitto, Demetra Hampton
Votes: 108
28. Il ras del quartiere (1983)
88 min | Comedy
In Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Lino Troisi, Lara Lamberti, Daniel Stephen
Votes: 328
29. The Couples (1970)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Three ordinary couples deal with surreal situations: buying a refrigerator, celebrating the anniversary in a luxury hotel, and co-living with a lion escaped from a zoo.
Directors: Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Enzo Jannacci, Rossana Di Lorenzo
Votes: 195 | Gross: $0.29M
30. Anni '50 (1998)
Comedy
Stars: Ezio Greggio, Antonello Fassari, Giovanna Rei, Andrea Piedimonte Bodini
Votes: 104
31. I fichissimi (1981)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Mechanic Romeo and grocery deliverer Felice lead two rival gangs and the local discotheque is not big enough for the both of them. When Romeo falls for Felice's sister, conveniently called ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Jerry Calà, Diego Abatantuono, Simona Mariani, Mauro Di Francesco
Votes: 468
32. Nothing Underneath (1985)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A park ranger from Wyoming, whose twin sister is a fashion model in Milan, Italy, strongly senses that his sister is in mortal danger. Once he arrives in Milan, he discovers that his sister has disappeared.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Tom Schanley, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Maria McDonald
Votes: 1,416
33. Vado a vivere da solo (1982)
98 min | Comedy
A young man named Giacomino leaves his parents to live on his own, but he quickly finds that it is more difficult than he thought.
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Jerry Calà, Lando Buzzanca, Elvire Audray, Francesco Salvi
Votes: 303
34. Viuuulentemente mia (1982)
90 min | Comedy
The rich Anna Tassotti Maloni is un'evasore tax, following a police raid, she is forced to repair outside Italy. On the way to the airport, it collides with police car, driven by Achille ... See full synopsis »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Laura Antonelli, Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Della Casa, Guido Cerniglia
Votes: 436
35. Il pranzo della domenica (2003)
96 min | Comedy
Franca Malorni, a well-off widow in Rome, falls and breaks a thigh-bone during a traditional Sunday lunch with her closest relatives. During her stay in hospital we get to know better her ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Massimo Ghini, Barbara De Rossi, Rocco Papaleo, Maurizio Mattioli
Votes: 220
36. Lady Liberty (1971)
PG | 95 min | Comedy
United States Customs at New York's JFK Airport won't allow her to enter the country with a Baked Ham. So she decides to eat the ham at the airport and then come in to the country. Obviously there are many sub themes and story twists.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Sophia Loren, Gigi Proietti, William Devane, Beeson Carroll
Votes: 515
37. Dagger Eyes (1983)
84 min | Horror, Thriller
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Carole Bouquet, Phil Coccioletti, Duilio Del Prete, John Steiner
Votes: 282
38. Fratelli d'Italia (1989)
100 min | Comedy
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.
Director: Neri Parenti | Stars: Christian De Sica, Jerry Calà, Massimo Boldi, Sabrina Salerno
Votes: 754
39. No One Will Notice You're Naked (1971)
106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Pamela Tiffin, Renzo Marignano, Gigi Ballista
Votes: 126
40. Vacanze in America (1984)
89 min | Comedy
A group of students from the San Crispino School for Boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York, through Utah, all the way to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro (... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Jerry Calà, Christian De Sica, Claudio Amendola, Antonella Interlenghi
Votes: 843
41. Un ragazzo e una ragazza (1984)
96 min | Romance, Comedy
Anna De Rosa is a Neapolitan girl who goes to Milan to attend university.Calogero Bertolotti is a young Milanese who studies psychology. They meet at a bar and it's love at first sight.
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Jerry Calà, Marina Suma, Monica Scattini, Sandro Ghiani
Votes: 139
42. Le finte bionde (1989)
88 min | Comedy
Graziella, owner of a boutique and wife of a well-known professional, feels marginalized by the color of her brown hair. In fact, everywhere the blondes, above all, the "fake blondes".
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Alessandra Casella, Cinzia Leone, Bruna Feirri, Francesca Reggiani
Votes: 68
43. 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: 191
44. The Heroes (1994)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Claudio Amendola, Monica Bellucci, Ricky Memphis, Tony Sperandeo
Votes: 575
45. Piedipiatti (1991)
92 min | Comedy, Crime
The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Enrico Montesano, Renato Pozzetto, Anna Benny, Antonio Ballerio
Votes: 470
46. Non si ruba a casa dei ladri (2016)
93 min | Comedy
A couple of honest workers takes revenge on the corrupt politician that ruined them.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Vincenzo Salemme, Massimo Ghini, Stefania Rocca, Manuela Arcuri
Votes: 360
47. A Fairy-Tale Wedding (2014)
92 min | Comedy
Daniel uses his wedding to a wealthy heiress as the excuse for a school reunion with hilarious results.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Ricky Memphis, Adriano Giannini, Emilio Solfrizzi, Giorgio Pasotti
Votes: 535
48. Amarsi un po'... (1984)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Claudio Amendola, Tahnee Welch, Virna Lisi, Mario Brega
Votes: 188
49. Torno indietro e cambio vita (2015)
95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Marco has a perfect life, a beautiful wife and a great job. But one day his wife Giulia confesses that she has met another man and wants to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced to reevaluate everything.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Raoul Bova, Ricky Memphis, Massimiliano Tortora, Paola Minaccioni
Votes: 796
50. Ex 2: Still Friends? (2011)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
Agreements and disagreements, crimes and misdeeds, love stories of couples at risk whose life will crisscross for incredible twists of fate for a moment, or forever, in this romantic comedy... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Enrico Brignano, Teresa Mannino, Liz Solari, Tosca D'Aquino
Votes: 836