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- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriA motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiVittorio GassmanBernard BlierThe Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMarcello MastroianniDaniela RoccaStefania SandrelliA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsFrancesco AnniballiMaria BoscoGiselda CastriniFour generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinPhilippe NoiretFour inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinAdolfo CeliThe 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.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinAdolfo CeliThis 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.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiGiancarlo GianniniA three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiGiulietta MasinaBrunella BovoDuring a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
- DirectorStenoStarsAlberto SordiMaria Pia CasilioIlse PetersonNando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to walk like John Wayne, and to eat cornflakes with ketchup - His life is a parody of the real American way of life that he could not get. Nando's not-so-secret dream is to visit the USA, so he climbs up to the Coliseum and threats to commit suicide if the American Embassy does not give him the visa. But at this point Nando is very well known as a 'crazy-for-USA' boy and the troubles he provoked will not help him.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoRiccardo SalvinoA trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
- DirectorsMario MonicelliStenoStarsAldo FabriziTotòAve NinchiEsposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsAntonio PetruzziStefano Satta FloresSergio FerraninoThe story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziAnnie GirardotAchille MajeroniA 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.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziShirley Anne FieldAlexandra StewartSatirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniFernando ReyShirley StolerThe defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòNino TarantoEstella BlainAntonio is a poor man who must support his daughter, especially providing the tuition for her stay at a prestigious boarding school where she can study dance.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoDorian GrayTwo clumsy provincial uncles visit a metropolis to stop the relationship between their nephew and a woman of ill repute.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoAgostina BelliForced to leave his family in Sicily, Mimí finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.
- DirectorsRoberto BenigniMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiRoberto BenigniIris PeynadoIn the 80s, two friends misteriously wake up in the XV century and clumsly try to intermingle with the society of the time.
- DirectorMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiFiorenza MarchegianiLino TroisiGaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people. He goes to Florence, to his aunt's home. In a clinic, where he goes by chance, he meets Martha and falls in love with her. After a series of funny situations (an old friend from the relentless chatter coming from Naples and the mature aunt and her elderly lover, a young American priest who wants to involve him in his visits to evangelical force, the encounter with Riccardino, a young man frustrated by an oppressive mother and the father waiting for the miracle of re-growth of an amputated hand, etc.) Gaetano decides to stay in Florence and to act as father to Martha's incoming son, even if the girl does not want to disclose the exact name of the father.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLuisa RossiLina SastriAn ironic peek into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsLuciano AgatiLorenza CodignolaSimona FrosiThe film tells the misadventures of a company of players who are oppressed by a tyrannical director. At the same time, his friend Michele is living with the failure of his marriage to Silvia.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoLina PolitoWhen a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.