Screenplay: Luigi Comencini

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Luigi Comencini. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Everybody Go Home

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

7.6

718 votes

7.6

718 votes

The Mill on the Po

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

7.2

116 votes

7.2

116 votes

7.1

119 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

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

6.8

88 votes

6.8

88 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

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

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

6.3

23 votes

6.3

23 votes

The Sign of Venus

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

6.2

279 votes

6.2

279 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

My Wife

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

6.0

25 votes

6.0

25 votes

The Belle of Rome

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Silvana Pampanini · Paolo Stoppa · Antonio Cifariello

Plot Mario fa il pugile e finisce in galera per aver dato per sbaglio un pugno a un vigile urbano. La sua fidanzata Nannina trova lavoro come cassiera nel bar di...

6.0

52 votes

6.0

52 votes

Casanova: His Youthful Years

1969 · Movie · 123 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Leonard Whiting · Maria Grazia Buccella · Lionel Stander · Raoul Grassilli

Plot Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs, habits, medecine,...

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes