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
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Vittorio Gassman · Peppino De Filippo · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Dorian Gray
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
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Alberto Sordi · Franca Valeri · Livio Lorenzon · Nando Bruno
6.5
215 votes
6.5
215 votes
Neapolitan Turk
1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Mattoli
Cast Totò · Isa Barzizza · Carlo Campanini · Franca Faldini
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
Direction Mario Monicelli
Cast Elsa Martinelli · Walter Chiari · Gabriele Ferzetti · Aldo Fabrizi
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
Direction Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast Alberto Sordi · Sandra Milo · Nino Manfredi · Madeleine Fischer
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
Mid-Century Loves
1954 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Chiari · Pietro Germi · Glauco Pellegrini · Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast Franco Interlenghi · Leonora Ruffo · Lea Padovani · Andrea Checchi
5.6
33 votes
5.6
33 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