Direction: Luigi Comencini
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luigi Comencini. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Everybody Go Home
1960 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Serge Reggiani · Martin Balsam · Carla Gravina
7.6
718 votes
7.6
718 votes
On the Tiger's Back
1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Nino Manfredi · Mario Adorf · Valeria Moriconi · Gian Maria Volonté
7.1
119 votes
7.1
119 votes
The Scientific Cardplayer
1972 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Silvana Mangano · Joseph Cotten · Bette Davis
Plot Pepino and Antonia, two Italian proles are waiting every summer, for "the old lady", a wealthy and disabled American in order to fleece her. How? By playing cards with her...
7.0
233 votes
7.0
233 votes
The Adventures of Pinocchio (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1972 · Series · 303 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Nino Manfredi · Franco Franchi · Ciccio Ingrassia · Andrea Balestri
Plot Television adaptation of the story of Pinocchio. In a Tuscan village in the nineteenth century, a poor carpenter named Geppetto builds a puppet he calls Pinocchio. Soon it begins to...
6.9
154 votes
6.9
154 votes
Misunderstood
1967 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Anthony Quayle · Stefano Colagrande · Simone Gianozzi · John Sharp
Plot When the wife of an English consul in Roma dies suddenly, her husband begins to lavish affection on their younger son, thinking the older boy to be unmoved by his...
6.9
257 votes
6.9
257 votes
The Window to Luna Park
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Gastone Renzelli · Giulia Rubini · Silvana Jachino · Pierre Trabaud
Plot Young Mario (Giancarlo Damiani) loses his mother, Ada (Giulia Rubini), when she's hit by a truck, and so his father, Aldo (Gastone Renzelli), a mechanic, must leave his job in...
6.8
23 votes
6.8
23 votes
Heart (TV Miniseries)
1984 · Series · min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Carlo Calenda · Johnny Dorelli · Giuliana de Sio · Bernard Blier
6.8
88 votes
6.8
88 votes
The Police Commissioner
1962 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Alessandro Cutolo · Franca Tamantini · Alfredo Leggi
6.7
27 votes
6.7
27 votes
Guagilo
1948 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Adolfo Celi · Tina Pica · Mario Russo · Luigi Dermasti
Plot On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While making every effort to retrieve his baggage he finds...
6.7
30 votes
6.7
30 votes
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Vittorio De Sica · Gina Lollobrigida · Roberto Risso · Marisa Merlini
Plot Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida ("La Lollo") had been in a number of smaller films before this 1953 blockbuster catapulted her to international fame. The success of this rustic comedy spawned...
6.7
909 votes
6.7
909 votes
Bebo's Girl
1963 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Claudia Cardinale · George Chakiris · Marc Michel · Dany París
Plot Set in a small Italian village in the 1940s, La Ragazza di Bube tells the story of a woman (Claudia Cardinale) who falls in love with a complete stranger (George...
6.6
76 votes
6.6
76 votes
La valigia dei sogni
1953 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Umberto Melnati · Maria Pia Casilio · Roberto Risso · Ludmilla Dudarova
6.6
24 votes
6.6
24 votes
The Boy from Calabria
1987 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Santo Polimeno · Gian Maria Volonté · Diego Abatantuono · Thérèse Liotard
Plot A BOY FROM CALABRIA is the story of 13-year-old Mimi (Santo Polimeno), who achieves earthly ecstasy whenever he is running... and always in bare feet, like his hero, the Ethiopian...
6.6
42 votes
6.6
42 votes
Bread, Love and Jealousy
1954 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Vittorio De Sica · Gina Lollobrigida · Marisa Merlini · Maria Pia Casilio
Plot Borrowing elements of Shakespearean comedy, this film is about the parallel amorous fortunes of two couples, one young, one middle-age. We encountered them both in the first film. "Maresciallo" Antonio...
6.4
390 votes
6.4
390 votes
Somewhere Beyond Love
1974 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Giuliano Gemma · Stefania Sandrelli · Brizio Montinaro · Renato Scarpa
6.4
35 votes
6.4
35 votes
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini · Nanni Loy · Luigi Magni · Mario Monicelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ugo Tognazzi · Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman
Plot An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel...
6.3
200 votes
6.3
200 votes
Frustrations
1952 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Marc Lawrence · Ettore Manni · Silvana Pampanini
6.3
23 votes
6.3
23 votes
The Emperor of Capri
1949 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Totò · Mario Castellani · Yvonne Sanson · Pina Gallini
Plot By a lucky series of circumstances, a neapolitan waiter becomes the prince of the island of Capri.
6.1
22 votes
6.1
22 votes
Traffic Jam
1979 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Annie Girardot · Fernando Rey · Patrick Dewaere
Plot A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally....
6.1
581 votes
6.1
581 votes
The Sunday Woman
1975 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jacqueline Bisset · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Aldo Reggiani
Plot Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society.
6.1
145 votes
6.1
145 votes