Giorgio Capitani

Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people. (imdb)

A comedy about the adventures of 5 firefighters.

Ruthless Four follows four prospectors who are out to strike a big lode in the Nevada gold rush days. When one of the four hits the riches, he finds the other three are out to partake of the hard-earned find. (nytimes.com)

Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. (imdb)

Comedy about an inspector who has been passed over for promotion many times, and the problems in his personal life. (ftvdb.bfi)

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Uno: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Due: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Tre: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between... by Il Tesoro (imdb)

Story about the ghostwriter for a successful author. His convoluted fictional crime stories inspire real life robberies by two crooks, who ultimately involve him unwittingly in their heists. (ftvdb.bfi)

Bruno Desantis is a popular TV showman but Sofia, his wife, has left him. Bruno is still in love with her and tries to call her. Unfortunately, or fortunately, his telephone is out of order and he is forced to go out seeking for one. He ends in a house where he finds three women: Vera, Simona and Betty. The three are so moved by his distress to decide to cure him, to nourish him and, in the end, to love him. Bruno begins to live like a Sultan in his harem. (imdb)

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. (imdb)

Comedy about the unhappy husband of a domineering modern woman, who becomes the hapless victim of an insatiable mistress and the happy (for a time) patron of an Amazon slave... (bfi)

Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship... (imdb)

A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia. (imdb)

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what? (bfi)

Paolo, a depressed playwright moves to a house which has been rented by his father Carlo as well, without each knowing about the other. Neither he or Carlo want to leave and so they begin an awkward cohabitation. Carlo is worried about his son's depression and gets him a girlfriend Benedetta. The girl however falls in love with the more interesting Carlo. Unfortunately one day Carlo ... (imdb)

Riccardo, a sessions musician, has a job in Munich - but he's promised to spend Christmas with his little son Junior in Italy. An invitation to perform in a live broadcast in Munich on Christmas Eve interferes with his plan. He nevertheless decides to secretly go and fetch his son from Northern Italy and take him back to Munich with him, while the singer Michelle - a recently rekindled "old flame" from Riccardo's teenage days - covers for his absence.

The story of Saint Rita of Cascia,a rare example of mother and wife. Rita,daughter of a couple of poor peasants, is promised to God.One day, she saves a killer from death.He wants to marry her because of her kindness and she accepts with the intent of saving his soul. She becomes mother of two good sons but,with the death of their father, they want a revenge and they die. Rita,alone in the world,is called by God.She spent the rest of her life as a good nun.

The film chronicles Edda (Mussolini) Ciano daughter of Benito Mussolini from willful adolescence through her turbulent life. Her marriage to Galeazzo Ciano - Italian foreign minister and Fascist leader as well as life in the shadow of her father Il Duce. (imdb)