Mario Monicelli Movies

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition,...

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The...

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother...

An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed...

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and...

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows...

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

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