Luigi Pavese

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death? (imdb)

Peppino is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano. (imdb)

A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story. (imdb)

Two Italian friends emigrate to Berlin, but find themselves divided by Soviet and American tensions.

Our hero, Antonio, is the concierge at an apartment complex. He is about to be evicted from his place. A man dies and leaves him real engraved plates from the Italian mint that he had stolen years earlier after working for the government. (imdb)

A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw. (imdb)

Carlo is in love with Gabriella and he decides to marry her. She agrees but some problems begin when their parents meet. Giuseppe D'Amore and Antonio Cocuzza take at once a dislike to each other and begin fighting over everything. The marriage is then called off and Carlo and Gabriella decide to fly away... Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia (imdb)

Peplum comedy with Samson Burke as Maciste and the legendary Italian comic Totò. (peplumz)

Totò Al Giro D'Italia is a black & white film in the Italian Neorealism genre about the 1948 edition of the Giro d'Italia, in which Professor Totò sells his soul to the devil in order to win the love of the bella Doriana. She agrees to marry him only if he can win the national bicycle race, calculating that this is an impossibility, but one stage after another he defeats all great cycling champions of that time (Coppi, Bartali, Schotte, Kubler, Bobet, Magni, et al).

This comedy shows how people shouldn't hurry to make serious things, (like getting married, for instance). In this movie, the "odyssey" of a rich-becoming man to find a wife who "helps" him to inherit a fortune is showed with great efficiency. The lots of problems that appear in an apparently simple task like searching for a wife to become rich shows this is not as easy as it may seem, and you can see there that money doesn't always bring happiness, until it's come. (Mr-JAFO)

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)

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.

Farcical version of the Figaro story.

The Duke Gagliardo della Forcoletta, penniless and expert in horse-races, finds out he has a daughter, Emma Marini. Her job is in the bar Aurora. The Duke decides to participate in Lascia o raddoppia, a TV quiz transmission, in order to win the five million lira necessary to buy the bar, and he becomes famous. The two gangsters Nick Molise and Joe Taccola bet between themselves on his success and the Duke is kidnapped. (imdb)

Escaping the clutches of despotic wife, an angry little man takes on the identity of a famous American detective and is forced to investigate a famous criminal nicknamed "Bluebeard". (negozioitalia)

Three brothers, all played by Toto, vie to inherit a fortune from their natural father. (worldcat)

Toto' a colori was the first Italian movie to be shot with a colour film, but the sensitivity was very low (6 asa!) so the actors had to act under a very strong lighting and high temperature. (imdb)

Totò, a painter, is summoned to Madrid by Eva and Raoul to run a copy of the Maja desnuda but is believed to play a camicia. Tentano thus defrauding a rich American who believes Montiel critic is convinced to buy a quadro. Dopo Totò series of mishaps and Montiel is damage produzuione counterfeits, but they end up in jail. (filmaffinity)

Comedy about the rivalry of two brothers in love and business during the Universal Exhibition in Rome, in 1911. (bfi)

In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena.... (imdb)

1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for ... casting spells. 4) The discomfort of an over tight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the reluctant parents of the bridegroom to bless his union. (imdb)

Franco and Ciccio, two inept police officers from New York, are sent to Chicago to infiltrate in Al Capone's gang. Thanks to the help of a local policeman and a lot of luck they manage to do just fine but when they are trying to arrest the gang, no reinforcements come... (imdb)

Policeman Fred is sent to inquire about a drug racket held in an ill-famed French night club. Pretending to be musicians, the cops are hired by the criminals and can spy the band from inside! The situation gets more and more complicated and the disappearance of a drug cargo puts Fred's life in serious danger... (movie-time)

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 musician. (imdb)

Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta. De Acutis, Colonel Terenzi's orderly, falls in love with Valeria, the daughter of the retired Colonel Bitossi. Different stories about orderlies and their officers taking place in Rome. (imdb)

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life. (bfi)

A group of teachers argues about what text to choose to teach history in their school. When they leave the meeting room the two busts of Napoleon and Julius Caesar, which are in the room, come to life and begin debating too. (imdb)

Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the revolutionary struggles of France. (imdb)

First of a series on a typical Roman family. (bfi)

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder. (imdb)

Based loosely on fact, stars Silvana Pampanini as a sexy nightclub singer with loftier aspirations. Posing as the wife of a judge, the singer manages to bed a high-ranking government official (Carlo Dapporto). As a result, the nonplused judge (Luigi Pavese) is given all sorts of promotions and special perks. When he finds out about the girl's subterfuge, his first reaction is stark, raw terror: Wait till his real wife (Ave Ninchi) discovers what's going on! (allmovie.com)

In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength....

A heavily fictionalized account of the life of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).

Faithful live action adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic novel about an animated puppet that desires to become a real boy.

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.

The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.

Fernando, a boy growing up in 1920's Italy, is inspired by reading a biography of Saint Anthony of Padua (after whom the city of San Antonio, Texas is named.) The wife of a young Roman painter who disappeared at the end of WWI goes to church with her son Fernando to pray to Saint Anthony for his return. After some time, the painter actually does return. Due to a head wound, he had lost his memory and recovered it on the same day his wife had invoked St. Anthony.