On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mario Monicelli
Fame and the Devil AKA Al diavolo la celebrità (1951) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Marcel Cerdan, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Mischa Auer
Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman. Read More »
Cops and Robbers AKA Guardie e ladri (1951) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Aldo Fabrizi, Totò, Ave Ninchi
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him Read More »
Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984) Mario Monicelli, Ugo Tognazzi, Lello Arena, Maurizio Nichetti
The story of a farmer that succeeded to contest the king Alboino Read More »
The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal AKA Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Flavio Bucci
Unlike in the previous 3 adaptations of the book, here Mattia narrates in flashback Read More »
Toto and the Women AKA Totò e le donne (1952) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Totò, Lea Padovani, Franca Faldini
Totò is overwhelmed by a wife who, according to him, not to make life impossible. Read More »
The Organiser AKA I compagni (1963) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century Read More »
Dear Michael AKA Caro Michele (1976) Mario Monicelli, Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow Read More »
An Average Little Man AKA Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977) Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti
Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. Read More »
The Unfaithfuls AKA Le infedeli (1953) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Pierre Cressoy
An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce Read More »
The Girl with a Pistol AKA La ragazza con la pistola (1968) Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave
A Sicilian woman, “dishonored” by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him. Read More »
The New Monsters AKA I nuovi mostri (1977) Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi
Several episodes depicting Italian’s life in short humoristic stories. Read More »
Casanova ’70 (1965) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell
Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, a U.N. official and modern-day Casanova, cannot get aroused unless there’s danger in sex Read More »
Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations (1992) Mario Monicelli, Tommaso Bianco, Renato Cecchetto, Marina Confalone
Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family’s home for the Christmas holidays. Read More »
Rossini! Rossini! (1991) Mario Monicelli, Philippe Noiret, Jacqueline Bisset, Sergio Castellitto
Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. Read More »