Early 1970s. Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alberto Sordi
The Bachelor (1955) Antonio Pietrangeli, Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Nino Manfredi
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. Read More »
The Flying Saucer (1964) Tinto Brass, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Eleonora Rossi Drago
The serious and somewhat slow Police Inspector and his bumbling assistant investigate reports of “strange goings-on” in a rural community. Read More »
Lo Scopone scientifico / Scientific Poker (1972) Luigi Comencini, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten, Comedy, Drama
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia. Read More »
Il boom / The Boom (1963) Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Geri, Comedy
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy’s 1950’s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife’s craving for luxury Read More »
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956) Mauro Bolognini, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Comedy
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the ’50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. Read More »
Tutti a casa / Everybody Go Home! (1960) Luigi Comencini, Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Comedy, Drama, War
In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly desert and head for home. Read More »
I nostri mariti (1966) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Comedy, Romance
Movies in three episodes due to three different hands. In the first, D’Amico, a young man is attracted by a rather masculine woman. Read More »
Il vedovo / The Widower (1959) Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Comedy
Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
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I magliari / The Magliari (1959) Francesco Rosi, Alberto Sordi, Belinda Lee, Renato Salvatori, Drama, Romance
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as “magliaro” (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer’s cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
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