Bruno Corbucci

Bruno Corbucci
Country: Italy
Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Director), 89 (Writer)
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Django
In the opening scene a lone man walks, behind him he drags a coffin. That man is Django. He rescues a woman from bandits and, later, arrives in a town ravaged by the same bandits. The scene for confrontation is set. (imdb)
+13
Banana Joe
A man is living happily on an island with his family, growing bananas. When a local mobster with an eye on man's property tries to take it from him, he must go to the town for the first time to get some help. (imdb)
The Great Silence
Bounty killers led by Loco prey on outlaws hiding out in the snowbound Utah mountains. After Pauline's husband becomes Loco's latest victim, she hires a gunman for revenge; Silence, mute since his throat was cut as a child. (imdb)
Aladdin
Updating of the old "Aladdin" Arabian Nights tale, as a teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes. (imdb)
+6
Miami Supercops
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day... (imdb)
Chi si ferma è perduto
When their boss dies two clerks eagerly wait for the next one to arrive. Each one of them hopes to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to win him over causing lots of trouble and lots of misunderstandings. (imdb)
The Two Marshals
An Italian tragicomedy in which a carabiniere and a thief exchange roles in nazi-occupied Italy under allied raids
Totò, Peppino e la dolce vita
A municipal worker from the country goes to Rome to visit his cousin, leading to a series of big-city misadventures. (worldcat)
Lo Smemorato di Collegno
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. He suffers from amnesia. Mrs Ballerini, after had seen his picture on the newspaper, realizes he is her husband and brings him her home. Also Mrs Polacich recognizes him as her husband... (imdb)
Onorevoli, Gli
Political comedy starring old Italian favorite Toto
The Monk of Monza
Toto takes his comedic antics to a monestary
I Figli del leopardo
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons. (imdb)
Odds and Evens
The most unlikely pair ever to take on the mob!, You'll be rolling in the aisles! (imdb)
Vacanze sulla Costa Smeralda
A hotel owner, in competition with a rival owner, finds a cache of lost treasure on the bottom of the bay after trying to drown himself which turns his life upside down. (imdb)
Colpo gobbo all\
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. Orazio believes the local gangster is guilty and he rushes to Occhio di Bue's home. When he finds out a different truth, Orazio, Occhio di Bue and his friends will try to get back the loot to put it back before the robbery is disclosed. (imdb)
Caligula II: Messalina, Messalina
Comedy sequel to 1979's notorious sleaze epic "Caligula"
Rimini Rimini
Summer in Rimini, where a lot of crazy things are a bound to happen.
Africa Express
John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimp and one dream: to save enough money to buy his dream gas station in Detroit. Madeleine Cooper is the lady of mystery he runs into as she flees from big game hunter Jack Palance. (imdb)
Little Italy
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name. (imdb)
+2
Horror
The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend. (imdb)
+6
Battle of the Amazons
A tribe of vicious female warriors terrorizes the countryside, and especially the males, until one day the men and some local villagers decide to fight back. (imdb)
The Cop in Blue Jeans
A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves. (imdb)
Cat and Dog
L.A.P.D. Captain Parker (Bud Spencer)finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma (Tomas Milian), bad copy of a Latin lover. He use to seduce older women and then steals their jewelry. Parker is close to sort the case out when Roma is witness of a Mafia murder. Parker Holiday flies away. (imdb)
Shoot, Gringo... Shoot!
Bandit Quintaras hires gunman Stark to bring his son Fidel back, who ran away and joined a dangerous band of outlaws. Stark develops a strategy to lure Fidel away from the gang and trick everyone, but Fidel doesn't even want to get back to his father, and a cat and mouse game unfolds. When Stark finally manages to deliver Fidel to his father, things come to light... (spaghetti-western.net)
Web of the Spider
The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumours of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. (imdb)
Hate for Hate
After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money. (imdb)
Gladiators 7
Framed for the escape of five gladiators from the arena, the son of one of Sparta's leading citizens is sentenced to the arena as gladiator himself and forced to fight for his life in the Roman Colosseum. Years later he manages to escape and return to Sparta, only to find out that his father has been murdered--even though it was ruled a "suicide"--and the woman he loves is about to marry the evil king who has usurped the throne... (imdb)
Hit Squad
The story involves some burglars who unintentionally steal some top secret documents from a villainous American businessman played by Robert Webber. When the burglars try to blackmail Webber, he retaliates with more force than they had reckoned with as he hires a contract killer to get rid of them. Special cop Nico Giraldi (Milian) is on the case however and he follows Webber back to the states. (fortunecity.com)
Swindle
This time "undercover" inspector Nico Giraldi (Milian) is investigating an insurance fraud with the help of an English detective (David Hermmings) employed by "Loyd's of London" - the "most prestigious insurance company in the world". The investigation leads the unlikely team into the Gay underworld of Rome, which gave the filmmakers the opportunity to incorporate some low-brow "gay-bashing" as the ridiculously macho Giraldi visits a Gay club. (fortunecity.com)
Assassination on the Tiber
Manfred Ruffini, member of the "Tiberina Family", a criminal association, runs amok and the district attorney arrests the owner of the barge on which the crime it has been made. But the marshal Nico Giraldi, called "Monnezza", is not convinced and, although deprived of authority he gives his all to arrive at the truth. (fortunecity.com)
The Gang That Sold America
The cops vs. the mafia with Tomas Milian as supercop Nico Giraldi. (deanmarshall.co.uk)
Crime at Porta Romana
In Milan, during a football match, the thief Franco Bertarelli, called "breeze", he manages to steal the house keys to Mr. Tassinelli, and, entering the same, is grabbing the values occur when a man and a woman, forcing him to hide under the bed. Dall'incomoda position fails to note that the man flaunting a conspicuous scar on foot, but when the man is gone, the thief is in front of the corpse of Elena Tassinelli. (yahoo.com)
Crime at the Chinese Restaurant
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnapped by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out. (imdb)
Crime on the Highway
Milian works in an undercover operation to try to identify a gang which is robbing trucks on the highway : therefore he is has to be away from home for several weeks, he is not even allowed to phone home . Then he falls in love with Viola Valentino and decides to break his love history with his wife (imdb comments)
Crime in Formula One
While keeping an eye on his small time crook brother in law, Inspector Nico Giraldi gets involved in a murder case set in the world of Formula One racing. Giraldi is suspended for trying to cover up for his brother in law and becomes afraid his wife and son may be targeted next. Therefore he calls in the help of his childhood friend and chief informant, Venticello. (imdb)
Cop in Drag
Inspector Nico Giraldi is a cop that is instructed to go undercover in a gay club to try and find out who murdered successful transgender singer Nadia. He was chosen because his boss believes he is 'attractive to men'. The inspector soon gets to work; setting up home with a friend in town and then picking up a drag queen at the bar... (imdb comments)
Virtual Weapon
When Skims and Mike get together, things are going to get hot. With a reputation for ducking bullets and causing mayhem, Marvin now wants to live the quiet life in Miami. Trouble is his old partner Skims is in town to crack a terrorist ring and a new high powered explosive. When things go horribly wrong, Skims ends up dead. Or so everyone thinks. Instead, he's now floating free in cyberspace, and able to travel everywhere he wishes... (daaveedee.com)
Viuuulentemente mia
Cop Achille Cotone meets wealthy tax evader Anna Tassotti Malomi, who wants to escape from Italian justice.
Per qualche dollaro in meno
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw. (imdb)
Two Colonels
During the WWII Italians and English occupy alternatively a village between the Albanian and Grecian borders. It happens so often that, not only they use the same Hotel (the Iris) as headquarters, but also they find the time to build up a kind of friendship relation. In fact the two colonels, the Italian Col. Di Maggio and the English Henderson save each other their life. (imdb)
Four Dollars for Vengeance
Bandits ambush Capt. Roy Dexter of the U.S. Cavalry while he and his men escort a fortune in Confederate gold coins. Only Dexter survives the attack. He's subsequently sentenced to life in prison on the false belief he masterminded the ambush. Escaping from prison, Dexter sets about tracking down and exposing the true culprits. (imdb)
Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang
Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has to steal a secret formula in Switzerland and try to expose the real identity of Mr. X. Kirk leaves London and Alina, his girl, together with three clumsy friends to accomplish his not so secret mission. But Kirk's great love is always a million dollars and not a secret formula. (imdb)
Toto vs. Maciste
Peplum comedy with Samson Burke as Maciste and the legendary Italian comic Totò. (peplumz)
Totò diabolicus
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus... Written by Piergiorgio Romani (imdb)
Toto vs the Four
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him. Fiore has a witness: a parrot! During his day of work in search of his stolen car, Saracino finds out the thefts of the custom officer Mastrillo, who tries to bribe him... (imdb)
Uno contro l\
Franco Colombo (Renato Pozzetto) has always been passionate about flowers, lives in Varese doing gardening, maintained by Uncle Fortunato, owner of a firm of canned meat; the death of his uncle, becomes the new president and is responsible Advocate Company in order to avoid bankruptcy, to go to Rome to deliver 100 million into the hands of Mr corrupt ministry, an important order for supplies abroad...
La casa stregata
Giorgio and Lucia are newlyweds and also have had the fortune to find one to house to a low price, but a curse rests...
Totò d\
The British Empire needs to monopolise the exploitation of all the oil extracted from Kuwait reserves, and the head of the Intelligence Service entrusts this mission to the man-servant Totò. In order to achieve his aim, he must overcome a great many hilarious difficulties and eliminate all the spies of the other countries. But in the end, he succeeds and ends up back in Naples where he establishes a refinery.
Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective
The main character in this comedy-detective story is Riccardo Finzi. The apparently plodding, Sad Sack-type P.I. has just gotten licensed and arrives in Milan with high hopes, however high they are in his case, of launching his investigative career. A trip to a night spot lands him a place to live in, a nubile young woman, and a murder case when he finds out the next morning that the nymphet has been killed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Il lupo e l\
Leon de Paris is a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a very stylish "Coiffeur pour homme". But due to this, his life with Fanny isn't funny, and more, Leon has to dissimulate homosexuality for job reasons. He decides to stop this nightmare engaging "Er Cuculo" (the cuckoo) a B-gangster to simulate a robbery
Roba da ricchi
3 episodes set in Montecarlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Two episodes. In the first one, " Il pelo della disgrazia", Mr. Altomare's life is constantly threatened by his neighbor that in Altomare opinion is a jinx. Altomare is obsessed by him and will spend his time finding a way to neutralize his bad luck... In the second one, "Il Mago", Gaspare AKAS Le Grand Gaspar, is an inapt magician. His life will change when he meet a 318 years old witch that give him magic powers, but... Written by 1felco (imdb)
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Totò and Pietro, his brother, make ends meet by living on their wits. Whilst being chased by the police, they steal a case from the station only to find a dead body inside which they decide to abandon in the country. During the car journey, they give a lift to two hitchhikers with an identical case; as a result of the obvious exchange, they break into the house were the two girls are staying and come across a group of dope smokers... (mediasetdistribution)
Tutti per uno... botte per tutti
A young man (Giancarlo Prete) seeking to "cover himself in glory", sets out to become a Texas Ranger. Encountering a damsel (Karin Schubert) in distress, he enlists a trio of disgraced ex-Rangers to escort her wagon carrying scientific supplies into Mexico. (spaghetti-western.net)
Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
The commander of "the seagull", a tug boat heading for Spain, is a computer which is prone to making mistakes. This, combined with the fact that the crew includes four rather stupid italian sailors, is a sure recipe for disaster. The first blunder they make is to collide with a damaged motor-boat drifting about in the middle of the sea. However, the sailors don't mind at all when they find two beautiful girls on board. (movie-time)
The Son of the Sheik
Tomas Milian lives with his domineering mother and dreams of opening his own gas station, but can't get a permit because he doesn't know the right people in the Italian bureaucracy. Then out of the blue, a beautiful American blonde woman comes along claiming to represent a large oil company and tells him that she will help him become manager of his own gas station. It turns out that Milian--whose birth was the result of a brief tryst between an middle Eastern emir and an Italian hotel maid...
Il diavolo e l\
Amusing story of an Argentine football player, now forgotten, who lives in a small town. In the end everything is solved by an unforgettable match. (ftvdb.bfi)
Nel giorno del signore
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent? (imdb)
Il trafficone
This movie about a poor Neapolitan guy that emigrates in Rome to find a job is hilarious. After reading a book about sex written from American experts he manages to work out a profession of it, making himself an expert in sexual matters... (imdb)
I\
As an ex-husband (Johnny Dorelli), his wife (Laura Antonelli), and their two children take a vacation on the ex's new yacht, the scene is set for disaster when it becomes clear that the ex-husband knows absolutely nothing about yachting...
L\
Gloria and her sister go with Grandma to the horse track. Grandma has Gloria make a bet, and her horse wins, but Gloria has bet on the wrong horse. Grandma drops dead on the spot. Gloria and her sister inherit a villa, and decide to turn it into a Pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house. An investigation is started by a judge, who is famous for enforcing morals... (amazon)
4 Crazy Draftees at the Army
This film is a pretty crazy film. An interesting glance into Italian humor as they poke fun of themselves. Centered around the training of draftees leading up to the NATO war games, our four ... uh... heroes... survive the training in their own manner and go on to great victory over the Germans, Americans, French, and British. Truly a great victory, albeit an unorthodox one, for the Italian army. (doradofilms)
Il ficcanaso
A delivery boy (Pippo Franco) gets a surprise parcel of his own when a dead body appears in his apartment. Wracked by fear, the young messenger seeks the aid of Lino (Sergio Leonardi), an overworked police chief who refuses to spend time tending to the timid young man... (mrskin)
Di che segno sei?
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles. (imdb)
Totò e Cleopatra
Satire on the Cleopatra legend. (bfi)
Il prode Anselmo e il suo scudiero
After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns in order to participate in the third crusade in the Holy Land. He is accompanied by Gian Puccio, his sluggish squire, drawn by the money and by the charm of ... Leonzia. (imdb)
Latin Lovers
The comical and amorious escapades of three young Italian men. (wolrdcat)
Totò sexy
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time. (imdb)
Pensiero d\
A young English peer leaves England and Thumbs his way across Europe. He sings in hotels and restaurants to make ends meet. When he becomes successful he also finds true love. (imdb)
Boccaccio
Sex comedy set in mediaeval Florence. (bfi)
Decameron proibitissimo - Boccaccio mio statte zitto...
A group of young aristocrats lock themselves away from the plague that is sweeping Florence, and pass the time by recounting bawdy tales. At the conclusion of the sixth tale, the plague is declared over and everyone returns to the city. (bfi)
I Protect Myself Against My Enemies
A major of the dissolved southern army gives a dollar to a young cowboy, Alan Burton, telling him that there are two other similar dollars with different figures on them; the three numbers combined show the spot where the Confederate's treasure is hidden. A number of people get involved including a gang leader and Alan's sidekick, Hondo. (spaghetti-western.net)
Franco e Ciccio sul sentiero di guerra
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat. (imdb)
Quando gli uomini armarono la clava e... con le donne fecero din-don
Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting... (imdb)
Storia di fifa e di coltello - Er seguito d\
A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength. (imdb)
Lady Barbara
Love story between a pop singer and a high society girl. (bfi)
Ma chi t\
Two driving instructors are in crisis due to the constant lack of customers. (bfi)
Kid il monello del west
A kid with a wild imagination overhears the plan of some bandits to hold up a bank. Together with a gang of other kids, he carries out the plan before the adults and when they try to get the gold back, the kid sets up a trap for them with the Sheriff. (spaghetti-western.net)
Dance music
Comedy with music and dancing, about the enthusiasm six young people feel for dancing and their adventures when they take part in a New York contest. (bfi)
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back. (imdb)
Lacrime d\
An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking (actually organized by his treacherous promoter) and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife. (imdb)
Due bianchi nell\
Two circus attendants are in love with the same girl and follow her and her father in Africa. The girl however falls in love with Tarzan and convinces him to move to Europe. When Tarzan gets on the ship to western civilization however, he soon realizes he won't be able to stand that kind of life... (imdb)
Nel sole
Carlo, a poor youth who works to pay for his studies, and is in love with Lorena, a rich girl. He pretends to be a tycoon with the help of two friends of his: a butler and a chauffeur. (imdb)
Cuore matto... matto da legare
Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl. (imdb)
Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Franco, the son of a pirate, does the boy at an inn owned by the aunt. It is admired by the stories and deeds of Ciccio, pseudocapitano Marina, actually a con man in debt. One day at the inn presents a pirate, recognizing in his son Franco dispersed over the years. The pirate, who in the meantime had been attacked by another pirate, Black Dog, confided to Franco to be in possession of the treasure map of Captain Flint, his mentor and friend. (it.wikipedia.org)
Totò di notte n. 1
Mimì and Ninì are supposedly the top double bass duo of the world, but they're not making any money playing street concerts in Rome. When Ninì inherits a million from his grandmother, they decide to go to all foreign countries imaginable in order to find a worthy place for themselves and their talent. From Paris to Madrid, Edinburgh to Hong Kong; wearing skirts in Scotland, risking to eat dogs in Asia; all this between striptease shows and other forms of entertainment.. (myduckisdead)
Rita, la figlia americana
This follows wealthy industrialist who loves classical music but doesn't have a great artistic background. He adopts an American girl and hopes that she will embark on a career as a classical concert pianist, rather as she loves rock, she befriends a group of 'rockers'. These 'rockers' are hated by her adopted father. (mondomusic.com.au)
James Tont operazione D.U.E.
A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it. (imdb)
I terribili sette
Six boys 11-12 years old and Bibero (5) having found a baby , together with a girl Gianna, scheme to use it to raise money for a football kit. These plans include a group of Gypsies. When things go badly they have to find the means to return the baby to it's mother. This includes the local priest and a pair of thieves.