Screenplay: Mario Monicelli

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Folco Lulli

Synopsis The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by, presumably, the Socialists to help them organize...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Totò

Synopsis It tells the story of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Synopsis Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Shelley Winters · Romolo Valli · Vincenzo Crocitti

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Elena Daskowa Valenzano · Isabella De Bernardi · Elisa Mainardi

Synopsis The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes...

Direction Steno · Mario Monicelli

Cast Totò · Pina Piovani · Aldo Fabrizi · Ave Ninchi

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Gastone Moschin · Adolfo Celi

Synopsis The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Massimo Girotti · Jone Salinas · Camillo Mastrocinque · Charles Vanel

Synopsis A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Nino Manfredi · Mario Adorf · Valeria Moriconi · Gian Maria Volonté

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Catherine Spaak · Gian Maria Volonté · Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this...

Direction Steno · Mario Monicelli

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Gina Lollobrigida · Delia Scala · Marcello Mastroianni

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Isa Pola · Adriano Rimoldi · Luciano De Ambrosis · Emilio Cigoli

Synopsis The film follows the anguish of the four-year-old, Prico, after his mother, Nina, leaves his father, Andrea, for her lover Roberto. Prico is sent to his aunt and then to his grandmother. Nina returns when Prico is sick and vows...

Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi

Synopsis An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. This leads to a series of thefts, blackmail and...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Paolo Panelli · Alessandro Haber · Marina Confalone · Pia Velsi

Synopsis Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family's home for the Christmas holidays. But this time, the old folks have a surprise, a good surprise for them. They have decided to go living with one of their...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Totò · Ben Gazzara · Fred Clark

Synopsis On New Year's Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year's party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs into an old acting acquaintance (Toto), who is...

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Federico Fellini · Mario Monicelli · Luchino Visconti

Cast Anita Ekberg · Sophia Loren · Romy Schneider · Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Franca Valeri · Giovanna Ralli · Tina Pica

Synopsis Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Adolfo Celi · Stefania Sandrelli · Beba Loncar

Synopsis Following to "L'Armata Brancaleone (1966). Our medieval hero in his way to the Holy Land during the Crusades, with all the wildest shenanigans thrown in. He is joined by a team of wackos and on the way he meets even...

Direction Duilio Coletti

Cast Silvana Mangano · Amedeo Nazzari · Vittorio Gassman · Jacques Sernas

Synopsis Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Jacques Sernas · Franca Maresa