Mario Monicelli Movies

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 aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia...

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than...

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

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...

italian documentary

A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was...

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the...

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

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

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds...

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