Luigi Comencini Movies

In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her...

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy...

Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days...

The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.

The film tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris.

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate...

In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The...

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers....

The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by...

A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and...

Christina and Francesca Comencini go on a pilgrimage to Agen, France to find the places where there Dad Luigi Comencini spent his childhood.

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his...

A man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death.

A social document of children, against the background of post WWII Milan.

Among old films sent to pulp, the fortunate discovery of nitrates in country farmhouses and the rediscovered treasures of silent cinema, the work of...

Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.