Eros Pagni

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; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.

Gaetano is an old cabriolet driver who spent his life driving in the streets of Roma with his horse Nestore, for whom the cabriolet work is starting to be too heavy. So Otello, the owner of the cabriolet, decides to sell it to Cinecittà making Gaetano unemployed and forcing him to bring his old friend to a slaughterhouse.

After a 22 years wedding, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually, it seems so, but is the lover for real? (imdb)

Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy. (Fiona Kelleghan)

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years! (imdb)

A burlesque of Moliere's "Le Malade Imaginaire". (bfi)

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena. The themes include blackmail, betrayal, seduction, and eventually murder. (imdb)

"The New Monsters" -literally translated- is a collection of nine short films of Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, being three of each one...

A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

A group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano's suburbia in the 1974. Not only they share the house, but also hopes and troubles that in those years where part of the Italian society. Loves and fights among them are the mirror of the difficult environment in which the poor south Italians found themselves in the 70s in the industrial cities of north Italy. (imdb)

Following a terrorist attack on a train, police arrested the police worker Stefano Baldini, a militant in a left-wing group, who, however, died during police interrogation under unclear circumstances. His sister suspected that it was not an accident and tries to find out the truth with journalist Cristina Visconti.

In 1930s Italy, a country peasant travels to Rome under an assumed identity to assassinate dictator Benito Mussolini. Guided by a seasoned anarchist prostitute, he stays in a high-class brothel while plotting the attempt. His mission becomes complicated when he falls deeply in love with one of the young women working there, forcing him to choose between romantic devotion and political conviction.