Best Italian Episodic Movies
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1. Allegro non troppo (1976)
PG | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay
Votes: 3,216
2. Caprice Italian Style (1968)
95 min | Comedy
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi | Stars: Totò, Ugo D'Alessio, Regina Seiffert, Dante Maggio
Votes: 633
3. Dear Diary (1993)
Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller, Claudia Della Seta
Votes: 9,145 | Gross: $0.47M
4. Cento anni d'amore (1954)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Lionello De Felice | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Irene Galter, Franco Interlenghi, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 53
5. 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
6. Contestazione generale (1970)
131 min | Comedy
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 152
7. Strange Occasion (1976)
110 min | Comedy
Three sexy and comedic episodes.
Directors: Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Stefania Sandrelli, Alberto Sordi, Paolo Villaggio
Votes: 511
8. What's Your Sign? (1975)
130 min | Comedy
Four episodes: A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error; a woman seeks a partner for a dance contest; a worker seduces his boss's wife; a guard is too proactive, which causes much trouble.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Mariangela Melato, Adriano Celentano, Renato Pozzetto
Votes: 389
9. Un'estate al mare (2008)
115 min | Comedy
The story is divided into seven parts focused on holiday, sun and sea.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Lino Banfi, Enrico Brignano, Nancy Brilli, Massimo Ceccherini
Votes: 506
10. 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
11. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Votes: 10,126
12. Italians (2009)
116 min | Comedy
Fortunato is a trucker who specializes in the transport of luxury vehicles, especially Ferraris, in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Tired of a life away from home and in the process ... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Remo Girone, Makram Khoury
Votes: 1,215
13. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (1982)
104 min | Comedy
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Nino Manfredi, Mara Venier, Ida Di Benedetto
Votes: 206
14. Questo e quello (1983)
119 min | Comedy
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Renato Pozzetto, Janet Agren, Désirée Nosbusch
Votes: 268
15. Culo e camicia (1981)
100 min | Comedy
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Enrico Montesano, Renato Pozzetto, Daniela Poggi, Maria Rosaria Omaggio
Votes: 294
16. Made in Italy (1965)
100 min | Comedy
A group of Italians--tourists and immigrants--take a flight to Sweden. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, 'La Trattoria', and are disgusted by the ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Renzo Marignano, Claudio Gora, Marina Berti, Lionello Pio Di Savoia
Votes: 318
17. The Ages of Love (2011)
125 min | Comedy, Romance
In Italy three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man (Robert DeNiro) falls in love with his friend's daughter (Monica Bellucci).
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido
Votes: 4,485
18. Manual of Love 2 (2007)
120 min | Comedy, Romance
Four episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized ... See full summary »
Directors: Andy Tennant, Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Fabio Volo
Votes: 2,203
19. Manual of Love (2005)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Luciana Littizzetto, Silvio Muccino, Sergio Rubini
Votes: 3,729
20. 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: 2,779
21. 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: 2,111
22. Let's Talk About Women (1964)
108 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Sylva Koscina, Antonella Lualdi, Eleonora Rossi Drago
Votes: 419
23. Le motorizzate (1963)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Ave Ninchi, Ennio Girolami, France Anglade, Carlo Pisacane
Votes: 113
24. Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio (1983)
100 min | Comedy
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Johnny Dorelli, Lino Banfi, Janet Agren, Adriana Russo
Votes: 690
25. The Gold of Naples (1954)
Not Rated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama
A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo, Agostino Salvietti
Votes: 2,044
26. Colpi di fulmine (2012)
104 min | Comedy
Love at first sight.
Director: Neri Parenti | Stars: Christian De Sica, Pasquale Petrolo, Claudio Gregori, Luisa Ranieri
Votes: 657
27. Pappa e ciccia (1983)
92 min | Comedy
Nicola Calore faces the visit of his niece Rosina who believes that he has become wealthy. Episode 2: The misadventures of two surveyors during their stay in a holiday village in Kenya.
Director: Neri Parenti | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Milly Carlucci, Pippo Santonastaso
Votes: 630
28. Of Life and Love (1954)
102 min | Comedy
1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for - ... See full summary »
Directors: Aldo Fabrizi, Giorgio Pastina, Mario Soldati, Luigi Zampa | Stars: Turi Pandolfini, Natale Cirino, Antonio Nicotra, Myriam Bru
Votes: 197
29. Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
105 min | Comedy
An episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.
Directors: Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Nanni Loy, Ruggero Maccari, Luigi Magni, Mario Monicelli, Ugo Pirro, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola | Stars: Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi
Votes: 921
30. Stato interessante (1977)
110 min | Drama
Three women are together in a clinic to abort; those who do it reluctantly, those with determination.
Director: Sergio Nasca | Stars: Duilio Del Prete, Janet Agren, Turi Ferro, Monica Guerritore
Votes: 31
31. The Anatomy of Love (1954)
134 min | Comedy
A five-part compilation film. In "The Baby," a poverty-ridden couple with children decides that their newborn is too much and decide to leave him in a church, but the mother can't go ... See full summary »
Directors: Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Dany Robin, François Périer, Alba Arnova
Votes: 190
32. 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
33. It Happened in the Park (1953)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.
Directors: Gianni Franciolini, Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Vittorio De Sica, Anna Maria Ferrero, François Périer
Votes: 211
34. Viaggi di nozze (1995)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Carlo Verdone | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Veronica Pivetti, Cinzia Mascoli
Votes: 2,778
35. Un sacco bello (1980)
97 min | Comedy
Carlo Verdone plays a multitude of characters, including a bully, a priest, a hippie, and an anxiogenous man.
Director: Carlo Verdone | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Renato Scarpa, Verónica Miriel, Mario Brega
Votes: 2,870
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