Ugo Tognazzi
Also Known As: Ottavio Tognazzi
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990) was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter,
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: March 23, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 27, 1990
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Lady Caliph
Overview: La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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La Grande Bouffe
Overview: Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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La Cage aux Folles
Overview: Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-20
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My Friends
Overview: Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-24
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Overview: During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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La Cage aux Folles II
Overview: In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-10
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My Friends Act III
Overview: This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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My Friends Act II
Overview: The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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Barbarella
Overview: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Comedy Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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The Last Minute
Overview: Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-08
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Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Overview: In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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The Ape Woman
Overview: A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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The Bishop's Bedroom
Overview: Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Il pollo ruspante
Overview: Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante ("Free Range Chicken") shows an Italian middle-class family with two children traveling via an autostrada (highway) to the site of a real-estate project where they could be interested in buying a detached house.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Fists, Girls and Sailors
Overview: Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Good King Dagobert
Overview: King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-08-22
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Come Home and Meet My Wife
Overview: 50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the love affair with Vincenzina.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-29
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Overview: A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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The Monsters
Overview: The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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The New Monsters
Overview: A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-15
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Duck in Orange Sauce
Overview: When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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The Fascist
Overview: 1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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The Conjugal Bed
Overview: A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-07
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Pigsty
Overview: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-02
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We Want the Colonels
Overview: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-15
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The Audience
Overview: Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Droit de Réponse
Overview: "Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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First Love
Overview: Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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It's a Hard Life
Overview: Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Totò in the Moon
Overview: Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-28
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Controsesso
Overview: A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-30
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Overview: A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Domenica è sempre domenica
Overview: A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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Traffic Jam
Overview: A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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Come Have Coffee with Us
Overview: At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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Evil Thoughts
Overview: Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-26
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Beach House
Overview: Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-27
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La cambiale
Overview: The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-19
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March on Rome
Overview: March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-20
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Complexes
Overview: In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-15
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La Cage aux Folles 3
Overview: Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. But the catch is that Albin must marry (a woman) and produce a heir within a year or the whole inheritance will be forfeited.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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The Terrace
Overview: Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Overview: Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Our Husbands
Overview: Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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The Woman's Confidant
Overview: A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-20
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5 marines per 100 ragazze
Overview: Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-10
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Police Chief Pepe
Overview: A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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La voglia matta di vivere
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Overview: A gay man who is trying to protect his wayward ward runs afoul of criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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The Wedding March
Overview: Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-17
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The Joy of Living
Overview: Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]
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Overview: Unreleased episodes from "I Mostri" with Ugo Tognazzi as protagonist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-26
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The Career of a Chambermaid
Overview: This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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Crazy Desire
Overview: A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-15
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Plato's Banquet
Overview: At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-07-27
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The Baron's Mazurka
Overview: A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related accident and has since become a raging atheist, vows to tear it down—until he mistakes a beautiful prostitute momentarily lying on the tree for the Saint herself, falling in love with her. Her pimp, his relatives and the clergy try to take advantage of his newfound faith.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Overview: A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Sunday Lovers
Overview: A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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His Women
Overview: Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-30
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The Magnificent Cuckold
Overview: Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-19
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I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-11
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Noi siamo 2 evasi
Overview: Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-26
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Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Laughs Italian Style
Overview: A sort of best of popular comedy skits from previous films by various directors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Overview: Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-05
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The Sheriff
Overview: A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio. When they kill the sheriff his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-15
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The Climax
Overview: A violin player is going to be father of a sixth child by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic... except to drive Giulia, his legitimate wife, along with his legitimate kids to the station as they leave for a vacation at the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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Pleasant Nights
Overview: A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-23
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Arrivederci e grazie
Overview: Tired of married life and of his profession, Carlo decides to leave the company he owns in the hands of his wife and leaves home to move to a rented house in the heart of old Rome. The man's son, Paolo, is a playwright looking for a coveted success and he too is looking for a new apartment: due to a mistake by the agency, they both end up sharing the same room. However, the two have an irreconcilable character and soon their differences come to light, with the situation taking a further unexpected turn with the arrival of the second son Giacomo and his wife Francesca, who is expecting a child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-11
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Baby Doll
Overview: A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-15
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The Payoff
Overview: Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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The Head of the Family
Overview: A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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Marinai, donne e guai
Overview: Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-06
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L'Incantevole nemica
Overview: The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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The Superwitness
Overview: A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-16
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Overview: A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-14
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Psycosissimo
Overview: Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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I viaggiatori della sera
Overview: A famous radio announcer is being retired at the top of his career and in full professional maturity. But for him and his wife life is not over now, he has more plans.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-26
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Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Overview: A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-20
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The Hours of Love
Overview: In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step outside their vows, exploring love's complexities and the heart's yearning against societal expectations.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Menage Italian Style
Overview: In Italy in the 60's it is difficult to get a divorce. Carlo gets a visit from his Swedish wife, but he is already remarried. Every time he meets a new woman, he vanishes away from the last wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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A Matter of Honor
Overview: Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-24
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This Kind of Love
Overview: Hoping to avoid the fate of his anti-Fascist father, an Italian leaves his community to marry a nobleman's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-10
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The Conspirators
Overview: Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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Lonely Hearts
Overview: The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-22
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The Degenerates
Overview: A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini, an adaptation of Petronius' Satyricon.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-27
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The Maids
Overview: Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-14
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I magnifici tre
Overview: Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic of "Nonduras" from the oppression of dictator Bonarios. Parody of The Magnificent Seven, five writers got together for an anemic script that exploits a repertoire mixture with the song "A man alive"by Gino Paoli.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-10
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Un dollaro di fifa
Overview: Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume them to be lawmen and are almost hanged.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-28
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The Key
Overview: Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-19
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Il generale dorme in piedi
Overview: A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Drums of Fire
Overview: In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the Conquest of Tunis. Eventually, he returns to Morocco to fulfill his destiny.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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La paura fa 90
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-23
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Kiss the Other Sheik
Overview: Italian comedy film in three segments
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Overview: Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-13
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Overview: An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-31
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Portrait Of My Father
Overview: A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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La Pica sul Pacifico
Overview: Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
Overview: A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-03
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I motorizzati
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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Love, the Italian Way
Overview: A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Fatto su misura
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Non perdiamo la testa
Overview: A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-16
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Tolérance
Overview: An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Overview: Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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My Police Granny
Overview: Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-10
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I Knew Her Well
Overview: A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
Overview: The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-29
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Unfaithfully Yours
Overview: An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husband) refresh their old passions via their common flat. In the second a well-to-do dentist-wife is attacked by her petty bourgeois family when she writes a sex novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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Outlaws of Love
Overview: This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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The Girl of a Thousand Months
Overview: A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-05
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Run for Your Wife
Overview: Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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The Harem
Overview: A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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Singing Café
Overview: Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Tu che ne dici?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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A Very Handy Man
Overview: In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-23
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I'm Photogenic
Overview: Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Overview: Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-21
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We Like It Cold
Overview: A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-20
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I cadetti di Guascogna
Overview: Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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Yiddish Connection
Overview: Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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The Man with the Balloons
Overview: Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-08
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Aces to the fore
Overview: The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Italian magazine shows.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-14
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High Infidelity
Overview: Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Nenè
Overview: In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-21
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Weak Spot
Overview: During the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Formula 1 - Speed fever
Overview: Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1" champions - from Lauda to Regazzoni, from Andretti to Fittipaldi, from Villeneuve to Reutemann - the film shows some moments of the races on the most famous tracks of the world, and above all, the accidents that have caused it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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I baccanali di Tiberio
Overview: Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Sua altezza ha detto: no!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Guardatele ma non toccatele
Overview: An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-27
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The Cat
Overview: Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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In the Name of the Italian People
Overview: An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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Fantasmi e ladri
Overview: Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-12
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Overview: Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Tipi da spiaggia
Overview: Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Overview: When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-04
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Arrivano i bersaglieri
Overview: In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-29
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I milanesi a Napoli
Overview: Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-15
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Overview: Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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Genitori in blue-jeans
Overview: Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Overview: A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-28
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Il principe fusto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-26
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Pleased To See You Again
Overview: Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local family linked to politics but also the church dealing in real estate business and welfare. Aldara may be pleased to see there Viviana again. Viviana is the widow of the dead man and used to be Aldara's girlfriend twenty years before
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Follie d'estate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-27
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Greetings and sons!
Overview: Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Se vincessi cento milioni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Always on Sunday
Overview: A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-10
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E il Casanova di Fellini?
Overview: During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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The Seventh Floor
Overview: In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-06
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My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Overview: Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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SuperTotò
Overview: Directed by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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