Nino Manfredi
Nino Manfredi (born Saturnino Manfredi, 22 March 1921 - 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre.
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La luz prodigiosa
Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory.
Alberto Express
A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby is born, Alberto must repay his father for every expense from his own birth until he left home.
I picari
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
Grandi magazzini
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Nudo di donna
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can no longer reconcile his spontaneous and lively character with that of his wife Laura, a cultured and composed Venetian woman. Yet another argument prompts him to leave her and seek refuge at the home of a painter friend.
Café Express
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
In nome del papa re
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
Signore e signori, buonanotte
An episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.
Brutti, sporchi e cattivi
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family.
Pane e cioccolata
Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful his situation.
C'eravamo tanto amati
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
Per grazia ricevuta
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing.
Vedo nudo
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
Nell'anno del Signore
È il primo di una trilogia di film di Magni dedicati alla Roma papalina del periodo risorgimentale.
Straziami ma di baci saziami
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life.
Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend 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?
Adulterio all'italiana
A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover.
Il padre di famiglia
Two architects meet some time after World War II and get married. Though they are deeply in love, they come from different backgrounds and do not share the same outlooks on life. Soon she becomes fascinated with his progressive socialist ideals.
Operazione San Gennaro
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
Io, io, io.... e gli altri
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Questa volta parliamo di uomini
An industrial exploiter, an old knife thrower, a cynical professor, and an ungrateful husband depict the selfishness and superficiality of the male gender.
Io la conoscevo bene
La storia vede protagonista Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli), ragazza di provincia che vuole farsi strada nell'ambiente romano dello spettacolo e allo scopo non esita ad usare il proprio fascino e il proprio corpo. La sua ricerca la porterà a conoscere numerosi personaggi che con maggiore o minore fortuna fanno parte di quel mondo. (from Wikipedia.it)
I complessi
I complessi is a 1965 commedia all'italiana film compesed by three episodes.
Il gaucho
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
La parmigiana
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.
El verdugo
An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
I motorizzati
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
Gli anni ruggenti
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
Il giudizio universale
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement.
A cavallo della tigre
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina
I fratelli Capone sono diametralmente opposti: Peppino lavoratore e risparmiatore; Antonio sfaticato e scialacquone. Devono però unirsi per riportare il nipote, studente di medicina a Napoli, sulla retta via.
Lo scapolo
Paolo Anselmi is a happy single man. He lives in an apartment with a friend but must leave when his friend marries. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but leaves her.
La domenica della buona gente
In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.