Vittorio Caprioli

Vittorio Caprioli
Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor), 3 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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Zazie Rides the Metro
This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Twelve years old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover.
Tout va bien
Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris. (imdb)
Mister Scarface
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan... (imdb)
Le Magnifique
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff. (imdb)
The Wing and the Thigh
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste! (imdb)
Death on the Run
A teenage musician's family is moved under witness protection while he is away at band camp. When he returns home early to find them missing his search is obstructed by the fact that the mob are trying to track his family through him and the police are trying to find him to reunite the family - and he is afraid of both. (imdb)
Er più: storia d\
revolving around the story of fish-monger Nino, Er Più of Rione Borgo. He is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding. Meanwhile, also Augustarello strives for Rosa's love, only to be constantly rejected. (IMDB Comments)
Cenerentola \
In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out? (imdb)
Adieu Philippine
Michel is a young man who works as a trainee operator in television, a temporary job before his military service. He meets and becomes friendly with two young women, Liliane and Juliette, aspiring actresses who lack the talent to land roles in anything greater than mediocre TV ads. The three friends share a holiday in Corsica, which will be Michel's last break before being drafted into the French army, most probably to fight in the war in Algeria. (imdb)
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory. (imdb)
Il Generale della Rovere
A magnetic Vittorio De Sica is Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa forced by the Nazis to impersonate a dead partisan general in prison to extract information from fellow inmates. (criterion.com)
Caligula II: Messalina, Messalina
Comedy sequel to 1979's notorious sleaze epic "Caligula"
Kidnap Syndicate
Kidnappers swipe two boys, releasing one, the son of a wealthy industrialist who meets their ransom demands. When they kill the other boy, a mechanic's son, the father goes on a revengeful killing spree.
Avere vent\
Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find Nazariota's commune, a place to stay for free and have all the sex they want... or so they think. (imdb)
Arrangiatevi!
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)
La Moutarde me monte au nez
Pierre Durois is a bumbling school teacher with an eye for the older female students; his father is a reputable surgeon who is running for Mayor. There's a film shooting crew in town and the paparazzi are around too. Zaney antics follow with typical French coincidences to heighten the comic elements. (imdb)
Giovannona Long-Thigh
A new judge closes a cheese factory for pollution; its owner, La Noce, bribes a monsignor who points him toward an official who might fix it. La Noce needs leverage and discovers the official's taste for other men's wives. He sends his stuttering assistant, Albertini, to hire a willing woman to pretend to be La Noce's wife. Albertini finds a virginal-looking prostitute with a potty mouth... (imdb)
Più bello di così si muore
Spartaco living in Rome, his wife Amelia is pregnant and he is unemployed; they are staying with her brother, Agenore, who wastes no opportunity to remind him of his generosity. Spartaco tries to find work, but he keeps getting propositioned by men, because of his good looks. He doesn't like this at all, because he considers himself to be a red-blooded heterosexual. Eventually he is persuaded to dress as a woman and to go on the street to earn a living; reluctantly he does so. (tg-films.info)
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)
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)
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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)
Una botta di vita
Two pensioners, one an ex-womaniser who has spent his fortune on the high life and the other an uptight character decide to go on holiday together with comic results. (ftvdb.bfi)
Totò a colori
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)
Café Express
Story about a gypsy expresso vendor who is illegally working Italy's express trains and his skirmishes with Italian bureaucrats, pickpockets and passengers. (bfi)
Roma bene
A satirical expose of Roman aristocracy today. (bfi)
Trastevere
A series of vignettes that take place in the Trastevere, the bohemian quarter in Rome, featuring the neighborhood and its inhabitants. (worldcat)
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Edwige Fenech plays the sexy private teacher of Franco (Alfredo Pea) who immediately falls madly in love with her. Franco tries and tries to seduce her by faking his own suicide. (imdb)
Quando le donne si chiamavano madonne
A very little and nice village in Italy, Middle Ages. A woman is under legal action for adultery, three young men trying to seduce three beautiful girls, one of them is the daughter of an unfaithful 'Madonna' (ancient Italian for lady) and another is a virgin scared about sex. The attempts to seduce the girls cross with the two lady's intrigues, but the goal is for all to have sex with others. (imdb)
Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell\
Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio. (imdb)
Io, io, io... e gli altri
A journalist undertakes an enquiry into human selfishness. (bfi)
Adultery Italian Style
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover. (imdb)
I picari
The adventures of two derelicts. They are prisoners in a battleship, then, after a mutiny, they succeed to become officers. They leave the boat and start to drift all around the Spain with the mere goal to reach something to eat. A prostitute could set their life. (imdb)
Come imparai ad amare le donne
The romantic adventures of a young man and his eventual happy marriage. (bfi)
Innocence and Desire
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife. (imdb)
Il male oscuro
Autobiographical fantasy about a mediocre writer under analysis, obsessed by a life-long love-hate relationship with his father, and an unsatisfying marriage to a girl many years his junior. (bfi)
Il malato immaginario
A burlesque of Moliere's "Le Malade Imaginaire". (bfi)
La presidentessa
A soubrette is mistaken for the wife of a judge, the Minister of Justice falls for her and the two get married... (imdb)
Maschio latino cercasi
Comedy. Five episodes. (bfi)
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)
Le dolci signore
Theme tying four distinct characters together is that adultery is indispensable for a happy, lasting marriage. (bfi)
Febbre di vivere
Story of the double-dealing tactics in love and business of an unscrupulous bookie. (bfi)
Le Trouble-fesses
Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls. (imdb)
Il petomane
Film about the Paris music-hall star Joseph Pujol, famous for his exhibitions of farting. He has problems when he falls in love with a lady who is ignorant of the way he makes his living. (bfi)
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Alessio, a goodhearted homosexual, has raised Mimmina as if she were his own daughter. Trying to help her out of the troubles she is getting into due to her amoral behaviour, Alessio becomes a police informer. Being of great use to the authorities, he is nevertheless abandoned by all his friends... but, just before moving to another town, local criminals take their ruthless revenge on him... (movie-time.it)
Leoni al sole
In Positano, a group of men try unsuccessfully to seduce young tourists at the end of the summer season.
Società a responsabilità molto limitata
A former professional boxer meets his thug friend after five years (most of them spent in jail) and attempt to steal some cocaine to sell back to a nurse.
Histoires extraordinaires
A French Anthology series of fantastic stories
Di mamma non ce n\
Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywire as people around him reveal their true identity and he gets a new motherly companion. (imdb)