Direction: Ettore Scola

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · John Vernon · Françoise Berd

Synopsis Set during one of the massive rallies which marked the visit of Adolf Hitler to Mussolini’s Rome in May 1938. The story revolves around Antonietta and Gabriele, neighbors in the same apartment complex but strangers until they meet accidentally. They...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Stefano Satta Flores

Synopsis 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 the story of the life of these three idealists and how they...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis "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...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Nino Manfredi · Francesco Anniballi · Maria Bosco · Franco Merli

Synopsis Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in reference to the lower-class characters and surroundings in this Ettore Scola film. Scola zeroes in on a particularly offensive...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Étienne Guichard · Régis Bouquet · Francesco De Rosa · Arnault LeCarpentier

Synopsis 1983: women arrive at a dance hall one at a time. Men enter and couples dance, their personalities on display. With the dancers changing characters, the film travels in time. In 1936, the Popular Front gives energy to the working...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Anne Parillaud · Renato Moretti

Synopsis A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Marina Vlady · Paolo Panelli

Synopsis Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) owns a cinema in Italy, named Splendor. Chantal (Marina Vlady) is his wife and cashier. Luigi (Massimo Troisi) is the projectionist. This film is about the cinema and the films that are shown on the screen. But...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Diego Abatantuono · Sergio Castellitto · Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Claude Brialy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Claudio Fiori Cencioni · Francesco Cencioni

Synopsis A child tries to escape the Nazis by taking refuge in a cinema.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Hanna Schygulla · Marcello Mastroianni · Harvey Keitel

Synopsis June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital. Determined to satisfy his curiosity, he sets...

Direction Mario Monicelli · Dino Risi · Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ornella Muti · Alberto Sordi · Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis Series of short stories which show a little bit of Italy and its people. One story is about an Italian gentleman, who provides a Good Samaritan service to an injured civilian; but is unable to deposit the man anywhere, as...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Vittorio Gassman · Marcello Mastroianni · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards fill in their past, present, and future relationships. Enrico (Jean-Louis Tritignant)...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Federico Fellini · Vittorio Viviani · Sergio Rubini · Antonella Attili

Synopsis The film is a reminiscence/portrait of Federico Fellini, put together by Ettore Scola on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the director’s death. In addition to the richness of the movies made by a peerless master—now the common heritage...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Rolando Ravello · Alberto Sordi · Isabella Ferrari · André Dussollier

Synopsis Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other hand, Mr. Bartoloni...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jack Lemmon · Marcello Mastroianni · Daria Nicolodi · Isa Danieli

Synopsis 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.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Bernard Giraudeau · Valeria D'Obici · Laura Antonelli · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Fanny Ardant · Stefania Sandrelli · Vittorio Gassman · Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions;...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Sylva Koscina · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis 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, as referred to by the...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Alberto Sordi · Michel Simon · Charles Vanel · Claude Dauphin

Direction Ettore Scola

Synopsis Gente di Roma (The People of Rome) is the great Italian director Ettore Scola's ode to the diverse aggregation of humanity living in today's Rome. It has been described as "a bittersweet tribute to a metropolis capable of sheltering all...