Release Date: 1956-04-12

Overview: Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Rating: 7.73 (224 votes)

Release Date: 1952-04-08

Overview: In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

Rating: 7.306 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1949-12-09

Overview: Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

Rating: 6.799 (77 votes)

Release Date: 1986-02-06

Overview: Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.

Rating: 6.9 (66 votes)

Release Date: 1961-12-22

Overview: September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

Rating: 7.1 (66 votes)

Release Date: 1969-10-24

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.

Rating: 7.551 (69 votes)

Release Date: 1963-10-25

Overview: In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.

Rating: 7.5 (118 votes)

Release Date: 1957-03-29

Overview: A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...

Rating: 6.767 (30 votes)

Release Date: 1950-12-22

Overview: Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti 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.

Rating: 7.1 (78 votes)

Release Date: 2004-06-18

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Rating: 6.4 (12 votes)

Release Date: 1972-02-25

Overview: Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

Rating: 7 (36 votes)

Release Date: 1985-09-24

Overview: The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Rating: 7.2 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1951-11-15

Overview: Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.

Rating: 8.8 (5 votes)

Release Date: 1954-04-17

Overview: Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

Rating: 8 (289 votes)

Release Date: 1954-12-03

Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.

Rating: 7.3 (123 votes)

Release Date: 1970-12-24

Overview: After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Rating: 7.169 (157 votes)

Release Date: 1953-12-22

Overview: When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

Rating: 7.009 (173 votes)

Release Date: 2019-02-28

Overview: Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.

Rating: 6.186 (167 votes)

Release Date: 1977-12-15

Overview: A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid (Mario Monicelli) - 6. Big Boy to His Little Mother (Dino Risi) - 7. Model Citizen (Ettore Scola) - 8. Pornodiva (Dino Risi) - 9. Like a Queen (Ettore Scola) - 10. Inn! (Ettore Scola) - 11. Without Words (Dino Risi) - 12. The Funeral Oration (Ettore Scola)

Rating: 6.9 (216 votes)

Release Date: 2010-04-30

Overview: Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.

Rating: 5.9 (172 votes)