Soundtrack: Armando Trovajoli

Direction Mario Monicelli · Dino Risi · Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ornella Muti · Alberto Sordi · Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis Series of short stories which show a little bit of Italy and its people. One story is about an Italian gentleman, who provides a Good Samaritan service to an injured civilian; but is unable to deposit the man anywhere, as...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Vittorio Gassman · Marcello Mastroianni · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards fill in their past, present, and future relationships. Enrico (Jean-Louis Tritignant)...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Rolando Ravello · Alberto Sordi · Isabella Ferrari · André Dussollier

Synopsis Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other hand, Mr. Bartoloni...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jack Lemmon · Marcello Mastroianni · Daria Nicolodi · Isa Danieli

Synopsis A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Bernard Giraudeau · Valeria D'Obici · Laura Antonelli · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Fanny Ardant · Stefania Sandrelli · Vittorio Gassman · Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions;...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Sylva Koscina · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the...

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Totò · Franca Valeri · Peppino De Filippo · Gino Cervi

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Alberto Sordi · Michel Simon · Charles Vanel · Claude Dauphin

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Franca Valeri · Livio Lorenzon · Nando Bruno

Direction Ettore Scola

Synopsis Gente di Roma (The People of Rome) is the great Italian director Ettore Scola's ode to the diverse aggregation of humanity living in today's Rome. It has been described as "a bittersweet tribute to a metropolis capable of sheltering all...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vincent Pérez · Emmanuelle Béart · Massimo Troisi · Ornella Muti

Synopsis In the Eighteenth Century, the "Traveling Company of Scenic Arts" composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling to Paris in bad weather. They see a castle and ask the servant Pietro...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Alberto Sordi · Bernard Blier · Manuel Zarzo · José María Mendoza

Synopsis A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Marc Lawrence · Ettore Manni · Silvana Pampanini

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Walter Chiari · Roberto Ciccolini · Michèle Mercier · Umberto D'Orsi

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Amedeo Nazzari · Silvana Pampanini · Nino Manfredi

Synopsis Gassman plays Mario Ravicchio, a financially-strapped press agent who accompanies an Italian production company on its trip to Buenos Aires to present a film at a festival there. He spends much of his time, when not seducing women, trying to...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Silvia Dionisio · Tano Cimarosa · Giuseppe Maffioli

Synopsis A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Monica Vitti · Giancarlo Giannini · Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will...

Direction Fernando Di Leo

Cast Mario Adorf · Henry Silva · Woody Strode · Adolfo Celi

Synopsis When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid...

Direction Steno

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

Synopsis 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 of abandonment where he springs surprise evidence involving her affair...