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Assolto per aver commesso il fatto

Assolto per aver commesso il fatto

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda.
6.0

Year:

1992

The Wicked

The Wicked

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
8.0

Year:

1991

The Miser

The Miser

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
6.4

Year:

1990

Taste of Life

Taste of Life

Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.
5.1

Year:

1988

The Opponent

The Opponent

Greene plays an up and coming boxer with a powerful right hand and a heart of gold. He works night shifts in a bar and has a girlfriend whose father played by Ernest Borgnine disapproves of the relationship thinking Greene is a no good for nothing loser. To prove himself Greene catches the attention of a local boxing promoter played by Giuliano Gemma who decides to make a champion out of his newfound protégé.
5.6

Year:

1988

BelliFreschi

BelliFreschi

Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to his villa in Beverly Hills, Stallone gets murdered and the two are suspected of the murder. Hunted by the CIA and the FBI they flee across the USA disguised as women and end up working in a restaurant as showgirls. Here Tom meets a Mafia boss who falls in love with him and goes to Mexico with him to escape the police hunt. Some years later the two friends meet again: Tom has married the boss's ex girlfriend even if he still dresses as a woman.
5.9

Year:

1987

Christmas Holidays

Christmas Holidays

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
6.2

Year:

1983

Petomaniac

Petomaniac

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
5.8

Year:

1983

Rich and Poor

Rich and Poor

Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.
6.1

Year:

1983

Bingo Bongo

Bingo Bongo

The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
5.7

Year:

1982

Più bello di così si muore

Più bello di così si muore

In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.
3.2

Year:

1982

Nobody's Perfect

Nobody's Perfect

Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
5.5

Year:

1981

Operation Ogre

Operation Ogre

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.
6.8

Year:

1979

A Dangerous Toy

A Dangerous Toy

A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
6.9

Year:

1979

Saxofone

Saxofone

A young busker goes around in Milan with his saxophone, whereby he always plays the same tune and he experiences surrealistic adventures throughout the big city. Meanwhile, a wealthy woman from the local "jet set" falls in love with him.
4.6

Year:

1978

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.
5.0

Year:

1978

Il... Belpaese

Il... Belpaese

After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her.
5.9

Year:

1977

Wifemistress

Wifemistress

A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.
5.7

Year:

1977

And Agnes Chose to Die

And Agnes Chose to Die

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
6.6

Year:

1976

Victory March

Victory March

The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
6.2

Year:

1976

Il gatto mammone

Il gatto mammone

Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
4.5

Year:

1975

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

Set in Naples at the end of the 19th century, I Guappi tells the story of a strange friendship between the powerful and charismatic Camorra boss, Don Gaetano (Fabio Testi), and one of the many scugnizzi who grew up on the streets, Nicola Bellizzi (Franco Nero). Nicola, thanks to Don Gaetano's protection, becomes first an honoured picciotto of the Camorra and then a lawyer. He tries to break away from his 'family', but falls back into a life of crime and violence.
6.4

Year:

1974

Slap the Monster on Page One

Slap the Monster on Page One

Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
7.6

Year:

1972

Nights of Boccaccio

Nights of Boccaccio

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron.
3.7

Year:

1972

Why

Why

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
7.2

Year:

1971

Scipio the African

Scipio the African

Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
6.8

Year:

1971

Medicine Italian Style

Medicine Italian Style

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
6.6

Year:

1969

The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep

Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for the investigation of corruption. The other brother is a cynical trickster.
6.0

Year:

1968

Be Sick… It's Free

Be Sick… It's Free

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
7.1

Year:

1968

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
6.0

Year:

1968

The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
7.9

Year:

1966

A Matter of Honor

A Matter of Honor

Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
6.0

Year:

1966

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

The Professor and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.
5.8

Year:

1966

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger.
5.0

Year:

1965

Saul and David

Saul and David

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.
5.0

Year:

1964

Beautiful Families

Beautiful Families

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.
6.7

Year:

1964

Extraconiugale

Extraconiugale

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
0.0

Year:

1964

It's a Hard Life

It's a Hard Life

Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
6.5

Year:

1964

I cuori infranti

I cuori infranti

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
6.0

Year:

1963

The Little Nuns

The Little Nuns

Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
7.0

Year:

1963

Sex Can Be Difficult

Sex Can Be Difficult

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
6.0

Year:

1962

Roaring Years

Roaring Years

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
6.8

Year:

1962

On the Tiger's Back

On the Tiger's Back

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
7.2

Year:

1961

Everybody Go Home!

Everybody Go Home!

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
7.6

Year:

1960

Escape by Night

Escape by Night

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
6.9

Year:

1960

Kapo

Kapo

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
6.9

Year:

1960

I piaceri dello scapolo

I piaceri dello scapolo

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
7.0

Year:

1960

The Surprises of Love

The Surprises of Love

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
5.8

Year:

1959

General Della Rovere

General Della Rovere

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
7.4

Year:

1959

Esterina

Esterina

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...
5.2

Year:

1959

Il raccomandato di ferro

Il raccomandato di ferro

An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
6.0

Year:

1959

I ragazzi dei Parioli

I ragazzi dei Parioli

A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.
6.7

Year:

1959

Dangerous Women

Dangerous Women

Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
5.2

Year:

1958

He Thief, She Thief

He Thief, She Thief

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
6.1

Year:

1958

Husbands in the City

Husbands in the City

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
6.0

Year:

1957

Courtyard

Courtyard

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.
0.0

Year:

1955

The Prince with the Red Mask

The Prince with the Red Mask

Duke Altichieri rises to power, after his associate, Cpt. Alberico, kills governor Conte Filippo della Scala. 10 harsh years of tyranny follow, until a mysterious figure appears out of nowhere, helping people in their struggle against the regime. He is known by the name Red-Masked Prince, but who is he?
0.0

Year:

1955

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

In 1925, young Florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girlfriend Bianca. Here befriends Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. After a resident is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets the wife Milena at the hospital, falling in love with her and leaving Bianca. Maciste is killed, again by fascists, while Ugo is wounded and he seeks shelter in a nearby house. Here he falls in love with Gesuina and the two marry. Milena's husband dies, but she and Mario part ways. Later, Mario is arrested by the police.
6.5

Year:

1954