Screenplay: Sandro Continenza

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


March on Rome

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Roger Hanin · Mario Brega

Plot March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a comedy aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two...

7.2

231 votes

7.2

231 votes

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

1956 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Camillo Mastrocinque

Cast Totò · Peppino De Filippo · Dorian Gray · Teddy Reno

Plot Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer....

6.9

95 votes

6.9

95 votes

Love and Larceny

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

6.6

271 votes

6.6

271 votes

Too Bad She's Bad

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Sophia Loren · Vittorio De Sica · Umberto Melnati

Plot Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) is a slightly clumsy cab driver who, not long after being issued a new vehicle, picks up an interesting fare -- a strikingly beautiful young woman, Lina...

6.6

541 votes

6.6

541 votes

The Widower

1959 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

6.5

215 votes

6.5

215 votes

Neapolitan Turk

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

6.2

26 votes

6.2

26 votes

A Day in Court

1954 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Steno

Cast Peppino De Filippo · Silvana Pampanini · Alberto Sordi · Sophia Loren

Plot Magistrate Lorusso presides over four cases brough before him during a period of one day. "Adultery in 16mm" focus on Elena who brings her salesman husband to court on charges...

6.2

66 votes

6.2

66 votes

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Jorge Grau

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Cristina Galbó · Jeannine Mestre · Raymond Lovelock

Plot A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

An American in Rome

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Steno

Cast Alberto Sordi · Maria Pia Casilio · Giulio Cali · Ilse Peterson

Plot Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is completely crazy for everything that comes from the States. He tries to speak American-English (the most...

6.1

298 votes

6.1

298 votes

Where Are You Going on Holiday?

1978 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini · Luciano Salce · Alberto Sordi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Paolo Villaggio · Ugo Tognazzi · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot Three shorter comedies: In "Saro Tutta Per Te" (I Will Be All Yours), Tognazzi is Enrico, a dentist who has agreed to vacation with his ex-wife at her lover's villa....

6.1

50 votes

6.1

50 votes

Totò le Moko

1949 · Movie · 81 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Cast Totò · Carla Calò · Gianna Maria Canale · Luigi Pavese

Plot The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi, a street...

6.1

24 votes

6.1

24 votes

Delusions of Grandeur

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Gérard Oury

Cast Louis de Funès · Yves Montand · Alice Sapritch · Karin Schubert

Plot Delusions of Grandeur is a period comedy/farce, set in 17th Century Spain and based (quite loosely) on Victor Hugo's play "Ruy Blas". Don Salluste (Louis de Funes) is a reprehensible...

6.0

316 votes

6.0

316 votes

Lucky to Be a Woman

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Charles Boyer · Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Mauro Sacripante

Plot Antoinette (Sophia Loren) is an attractive young woman who is adjusting her stockings one day when a passing news photographer snaps her picture. To Antoinette's shock, the picture appears on...

6.0

120 votes

6.0

120 votes

Donatella

1956 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

5.9

67 votes

5.9

67 votes

The Inglorious Bastards

1978 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Enzo G. Castellari

Cast Bo Svenson · Peter Hooten · Fred Williamson · Michael Pergolani

Plot Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to...

5.8

995 votes

5.8

995 votes

The Bachelor

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

5.8

119 votes

5.8

119 votes

Totò Looks for an Apartment

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Totò · Alda Mangini · Marisa Merlini · Lia Amanda

Plot It is hardly necessary to note that the star of Totò cerca casa is popular Italian farceur Toto. Nor does it require a PhD to figure out the film's plotline....

5.7

81 votes

5.7

81 votes

Hercules at the Center of the Earth

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Bava · Franco Prosperi

Cast Reg Park · Christopher Lee · Leonora Ruffo · Marisa Belli

Plot Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope...

5.5

184 votes

5.5

184 votes

Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis

1961 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Reg Park · Ettore Manni · Fay Spain · Luciano Marin

Plot The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) saves a beautiful maiden from the hands of an evil creature. She takes...

5.4

141 votes

5.4

141 votes