Totò

Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang (imdb)

This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive", "Civic Sense", "The Earth As Seen From The Moon", "The Girl From Sicily", and "A Night Like Any Other". (All Movie Guide)

On an empty road, an old man is walking with his son. They meet a crow that can speak. They are changed into monks and Saint Francois sent them to preach for hawks and sparrows. A reflexion about idealism. (imdb)

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)

An Italian tragicomedy in which a carabiniere and a thief exchange roles in nazi-occupied Italy under allied raids

A municipal worker from the country goes to Rome to visit his cousin, leading to a series of big-city misadventures. (worldcat)

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)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. (imdb)

Political comedy starring old Italian favorite Toto

Toto takes his comedic antics to a monestary

An Italo-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds, hidden in jam jars. When the jars get to the harbour of Naples, they fall into the wrong hands. (imdb)

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller". (imdb)

Six short films. "What are the clouds" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Totò is a puppet painted green is thrown ina landfill with a second puppet (Ninetto Davoli) at the endof a play. Will they still find a reason for watching an extraordinarily magical sky. "Monster of Sunday" Directed by Steno starring Totò.Antonio De Curtis is a monster obsessed by 60's youths with long hair... (antoniodecurtis.org)

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl). (imdb)

The plot involves poverty-stricken Felice and his friend, don Pasquale, masquerading as aristocratic relatives of a young woman in order to get her parents approval for a marriage to a young prince. (neac.eat-online.net)

Beniamino and his family have lived in a school from the end of World War II. But five years have passed and they are compelled to move. In Rome, however, it is difficult to find an apartment. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but in the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and they flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Last they find a fine and large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people too. (Baldinotto da Pistoia)

Fabrizi plays Bottoni, a detective who has been given three months to bring Esposito to justice. Deciding to bore from within, Bottoni ingratiates himself with Esposito's warm-hearted family. He finally meets his prey at a colorful family get-together. The men discover that they're kindred spirits. But this does not dissuade Bottoni's determination that the law must take its course. (allmovie.com)

The thief Tapioca (Totò) happens to meet Gaston home Ornano industrialist and his wife, Noris, who extorts money with incriminating letters. After discovering the blackmail Ornano arrests Tapioca. Eventually the three men form a society for the exploitation of compromising letters.

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel. (imdb)

Rossellini's darkly comic satire showcases the great Italian comic Toto as a barber who is imprisoned for murdering his wife's suspected lover. After twenty years, Salvatore leaves the prison walls to find the world he once knew gone. His wife is dead, he encounters one deceitful person after another, and his family and friends are even more disloyal. Salvatore realizes he has no choice but to find a way back to prison where he feels certain he will be happier. (dvdbeaver.com)

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)

After getting a woman (the Virtue) pregnant, a school teacher (the Man) tries to make her copulate with her rude husband, a ship Captain who's always traveling (the Beast). Based upon a novel by Luigi Pirandello.

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent. (imdb)

In this comedy, two Yankee con artists pose as tourists visiting scenic Naples. There they intend to rob an old church. Before pulling the caper, the two enlist the aid of a local criminal. The theft succeeds, but afterwards the crooks begin double-crossing each other. Murder and mayhem ensues as one American murders the other and then heads for the airport dressed as a nun. "Her" loot is, in turn, captured by the Italian crook and his friend. (allmovie.com)

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)

Totò stars in this spoof of Cecil B. De Mille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands. Written by EndriX (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)

Ercole Pappalardo (Totò), married, five sons, lives with only dream to be upgraded from his current position in the post department. Everithing goes wrong, he accidentally spits on the minister's face, he insults him trough a parrot (!), and finally they discover he has no titles to fit his current position. After all this tragicomic events he takes a definitive decision: he will die to communicate from the afterlife the lotto numbers to his wife! Written by 1felco (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)

Totò, one of Italy's all-time great comedians, stars as a Neopolitan petty criminal named Don Felice... (imdb)

Since the IRS has ordered new taxes, all traders in the village are tormented. Only Torquato Pezzella, a wealthy merchant of rain does not give in to despair general. To escape the contributions it has offered a tax advisor, the very respectable Curto Hector, who is in reality an ignorant on the subject. Still, Pezzella that has so far managed to avoid the taxes through the valuable advice of his new partner.... (letterboxd.com)

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 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)

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him. (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.

Sonia, a beautiful gold digger, mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for the Arab prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri. Antonio goes there behind his wife and mother in law's back. Due to a lucky series of circumstances he really does becomes the prince of the island. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)

La Quaglia is the stationmaster of the small town of Piovarolo, a town where trains don't stop and where the station is small and almost useless. The years pass, La Quaglia gets married, a daughter is born and his awaited promotion never arrives. Maybe a dangerous mishap near the station will bring him some luck...or maybe not. ... (amazon)

A drifter finds a job at a beauty institute, gets fired, meets a beautiful woman and inherits a fortune. (locatetv)

The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law. Then he finds a job in a building firm. Only by chance Cavalli finds out that his salary is paid by his wife to keep him busy... Written by Piergiorgio Romani (imdb

A patient in a mental hospital reveals his view of society to a psychiatrist. (locatetv)

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)

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)

Antonio and Felice two experience swindlers - always afraid to get arrested by their school friend Malvasia - use the money to pay the college of Antonio's daughter, Diana. Ignoring his origin, Diana falls in love with Franco, who is not only one of her father's victims, but also the policeman's son! Love, humorism and an unexpected inheritance solve a situation that could have gotten out of hand... (movie-time)

Totò follows his beloved to Africa, where he encounters a cannibal tribe, but manages to save her from a dishonest explorer and help her find her anthropologist father. (worldcat)

Don Felice, the mayor of Roccasecca, has been tricked by his nephew Ciccillo. Ciccillo has told his uncle that he is taking a medical degree in psychiatry when in truth he has been using his money for good times. Having twice wormed money from his uncle, Ciccillo again needs money to pay his gambling debts. He pretends that his boardinghouse is his clinic and the other tenants his patients. By accident Don Felice is frightened to find himself in the "asylum" alone with the "inmates."

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)

Armando is the trainer of a small, but harmonious soccer team; the two good players are: Franco, a young husband, whose wife Emma expects a child and Aldo, who is in love with Paola, the daughter of Mr. Fontana, which is the President of the soccer team and the proprietor of a blooming company exporter of wines, Mr. Fontana is likewise ambitious as stingy... (antoniomargheriti)

After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum. (worldcat)

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)

Three Explorers,Stanis, Spartaco and Iva are excited to hear that there's a strange creature, a kind of white ape man called Tarzan (Totò), who lives in heart of the jungle. Using Iva as bait they're able to capture him, but their excitement is rather curtailed when they discover that he's a pretty handy speaker of Italian. In fact, they discover that he is actually the son of a wealthy adventurer who accidentally left him in the jungle back when he was a child... (thewildeye)

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti (Totò) refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul. (Diogenes81)

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)

During a police raid in Villa Borghese agent Antonio Caccavallo (Toto`) arrests Carolina amongst other prostitutes. However Carolina is innocent and she left home pregnant in fear of the future. Antonio is obligated to take Carolina back home but the trip is not as easy as he expects... (forzaitalia.com)

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

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family and succeeds in stealing their silver cutlery. (imdb)

Satire on the Cleopatra legend. (bfi)

Comedy of errors about two film extras involved with a young jewel thief on New Year's Eve in Rome. Based on the short stories by Alberto Moravia. (bfi)

A promissory note is passed from person to person in this warm-hearted satire. (worldcat)

1905. Aristide Tromboni and his down at heel company of actors are in search of scripts and above all food. In a small country town they get to know Professor Molmenti, who is anxious to have performed his dramatic play, Il ratto delle Sabine. (wolrdcat)

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her. (imdb)

In Paris, in 1865, in an orphan-asylun everyone is an orphan. The girls, of course, the headmistress, the dog and the two watchmen, Gasparre and Battista: each of them is an orphan. Gasparre and Battista decide to look for an orphan's father so she can marry. They go to a chiromancer to seek advise and Gasparre finds out he is the son of a count... (imdb)

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)

"An Italian man is discovered to have the same elements in his blood as a monkey. American scientists believe this will make him the perfect candidate to be sent into space. However there are complications with German spies and aliens from another planet"--Container. (worldcat)

Totò meets a little boy whose mother has just died. The little boy is sent out begging by his cruel uncle, but when Totò finds out he gets the uncle imprisoned. The uncle's wife tells the little boy his mother is in hell, so the little boy tries to burn Totò's house so he can join her there. But Totò arrives just in time and convinces the boy that his mother is not in hell. (movie-time)

Four short stories about love and life. (worldcat)

A rich manager saved a man from drowning in the river but the latter, instead of thanking him, moved in his house with his numerous family! Actually, the intruder was not as bad as it seemed... He saved the manager from an all too interested lover, helped him win an auction that restored the company's finances, and discovered his secretary's illegal agreements with competing firms! ... (movie-time)

A florentine Notary is worried about his beautiful wife's sterility. The sly Callimaco, a rich and fun-loving young man, organizes a plot to contact Lucrezia: pretending to be a French doctor he prepares a prodigious potion that cures the woman's sterility but... (movie-time)

A great cast of comic actors for five amusing episodes: a fast driving nun has an accident with a car full of communists. A prostitute sinks in a pond with her "officer-van" along with her dreams. A Broke and desperate man tries to get hit by a car to collect the insurance money. A fake policeman makes money by giving fines... (movie-time)

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)

Racconti Romani is a fast-paced comedy based on short stories related in the first person by men of the Roman working class. (worldcat)

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)

This time the dynamic two have managed to get themselves locked up in a mental asylum and are trying to persuade the supervisor that their wives had forced them to dress up as clowns and ask for donations on the street to raise money for charity. The two were actually doing well until they decided to collect from passing car drivers and caused the most almighty traffic jam. It was then that they were cessied off to the looney bin... (movie-time)

The comical and amorious escapades of three young Italian men. (wolrdcat)

Toto hiding from the forces of law and order hides in a barrel and finds himself on a pirate ship and becomes leader. (bfi)

Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time. (imdb)

The life of a poor quarter of Naples from 1940 to 1950. (bfi)

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house. (letterboxd)

Series of music-hall sketches etc. (bfi)

lga Villi essays the title role in the Italian Yvonne la Nuit. The film certainly spares its heroine nothing: her lover killed in WW I, her child kidnapped by her lover's aristocratic father, Yvonne pours out her heart in song at every opportunity. Only in her dotage is Yvonne permitted a measure of happiness with a buffoonish companion who has loved her from afar... ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Totò, a former butler, joins the Foreign Legion and is taken prisoner by a sheik.(bfi)

Five episodes,each illustrating an aspect of post-war Italian life: 1. Mara 2. Il pupo 3. Scena all'aperto 4. Casa d'altri 5. Don Corradino (bfi)

Tyrannised by his stingy wife Teresa, Antonio organises a perfect plan to have a good time for at least one night. With the complicity of the town barber, he stages a fake kidnapping and manages to get the ransom money from his wife. The deception is soon uncovered, not only by Teresa but also by Iganzio, the bandit whom Antonio pretended to be kidnapped by, who decides to kidnap Antonio for real. (wordcat)

The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce... (imdb)

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)

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)

Toto has an accident while trying to commit suicide, goes to hell, visits beatniks, marries a Siamese twin, and has other misadventures. (scifilm.org)