Memmo Carotenuto

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady...

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave...

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will...

A group of traveling persons end up as prisoners of a German sergeant and his squad, in an isolated and precarious cabin in the country.

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are...

Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor",...

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Marcellino becomes an orphan and finds two uncles--a good old eccentric man and a villain.

Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a...

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is...

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Tricky Dicky is after a gold treasure with his companion. He tracks the treasure down in insane asylums, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and finally, the...

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!

In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.

A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...

A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes...

Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a...

A pickpoket falls in love with one of his victims.

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed...

In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his...

Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be...

A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and...

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the...

In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want...

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.

A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she...

A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.

After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their...

An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go...

A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake,...

Paolo, a youth, associates with very dubious characters and shirks work but all in all he is a good guy. Will he mend his own ways?

Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When...

Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares...

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job...

A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients...

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time:...

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa...

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with...

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.

Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.

Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the...

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better...

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the...

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

Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences,...

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg...

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all...

Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a load of contraband cigarettes but, using the...

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential...

A young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to customers' houses.

Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them...

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When...

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

A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on...

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the...

Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a...

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer....

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica,...

Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing...

As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When...

A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.

A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a...

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Two teenagers are late for school so they decide to spend the day together.

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the...

In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate...

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

During WW2 a platoon of marines fights the Japanese on a little island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island there is a hut where old Taikiki lives...

This is an Italian movie starring Terence Hill

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.

A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 .

During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only...

An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his...

A comedy about two friends attempting a heist.

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to...

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is...

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?)...