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- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVittorio GassmanSylva KoscinaUgo TognazziThe well-known financier Pierluigi Bruscatelli is arrested after having paid two fraudsters with a bill of 100 000 lire.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoDelia ScalaBaron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòIgnazio BalsamoIsa BarzizzaA petty criminal poses as a Turkish eunuch hired by a wealthy merchant to guard the women of his house.
- DirectorLionello De FeliceStarsTotòJean-Claude PascalSimone SimonTapioca, 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 than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòNino TarantoEstella BlainAntonio is a poor man who must support his daughter, especially providing the tuition for her stay at a prestigious boarding school where she can study dance.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoMara BerniAntonio Barbacane's wealthy grandfather sends him to Rome to try to corrupt politicians to shift the route of a motorway to their town to increase the land values.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòAldo FabriziCathia CaroMr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsTotòGianni AppeliusGaleazzo BentiBeautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòSophia LorenEnzo Turco"Miseria e Nobiltà" tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a rich but simple cook, so they pose as aristocrats.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoGiulia RubiniThree decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's involvement.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAnna MagnaniTotòBen GazzaraTortorella tries to spend New Year's Eve with her wealthy friends, but ends up with an actor in decay and a pickpocket.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaGianni AgusIn the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoAroldo TieriAfter their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòFranca ValeriPeppino De FilippoThe film is composed of several small stories that have to do with the votes of politicians in Italy in the sixties.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòSylva KoscinaFernand GraveyDuclos'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", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asks for $10 million to cede the document. Duclos then imagines Chemantel contracting $10 million in life insurance for his son. In Rome he discovers a tramp who looks just like the Marquis, so he brings the man to Paris and arrange his accidental.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsTotòIrene CefaroMarisa MerliniAntonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsPeppino De FilippoLaura AdaniCristina GaioniIn post-war Italy during the 1950s, finding a house to rent is so difficult that a family ends up living in a former brothel.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòAbbe LaneVittorio De SicaFake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the Marquis De Vitti, who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards, Spillone finds her with her husband and believes he is her lover.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoAldo FabriziThe day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him. Fiore has a witness: a parrot! During his day of work in search of his stolen car, Saracino finds out the thefts of the custom officer Mastrillo, who tries to bribe him, and the faked colonel Mazza, ran away from an asylum who convinces him to have found out a new Landru, but it was only the set of a movie. In the evening, at last, Don Amilcare recovers Saracino's car, so he can say that all is well that ends well.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaFulvia FrancoIn the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, ''Epopea italiana'', to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios. Will he succeed?
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaGiuditta RissoneTotò Casamandrei sells his soul to a demon to win the Tour of Italy.
- DirectorAmleto PalermiGiorgio BianchiStarsTotòTitina De FilippoSilvana JachinoMastr'Antonio Miciaccio, caretaker and shoemaker devoted to Saint John Beheaded, is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boyfriend and he does not want him to marry her.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòTamara LeesLaura GoreAntonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaMario CastellaniIn Napoli, truthful pharmacist clerk Nicolino Capece becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bullfighter and heads to the arena..
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoNadia SandersAntonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsTotòCarlo CampaniniClelia MataniaVillage teacher Ernesto is dominated by his wife. He has a passion for the theatre and has written a drama in verse called "Il Ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately, his only admirer is their servant Rosina. When the traveling company of Professor Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play anonymously. When the day arrives, the theatre is sadly empty, but then the news spreads that the author is the teacher..
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòPaolo StoppaFiorella MariThese are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a cruel, despotic Nazi.
- DirectorDaniele D'AnzaStarsTotòErnesto CalindriGiusi Raspani DandoloAdattamento della farsa teatrale "Una camera fittata per tre", interpretata dallo stesso Totò a teatro. L'incompreso maestro di musica Mardocheo Stonatelli (Totò) viene invitato in un paese di campagna a dirigere la banda per la festa locale. Arrivato sul posto dovrà adattarsi a condividere la stessa stanza (oltretutto di passaggio) con altri due ospiti, uno dei quali gravemente malato (Ernesto Calindri). Il finale riprende un altro consueto numero di rivista di Totò, ovvero quello della fanfara dei bersaglieri.
- DirectorDaniele D'AnzaStarsTotòSandra MiloMario CastellaniProfessor Serafino Bolletta is a bizarre inventor, who has just invented a pipe which saves on smoking and health: the PPCIP-18. Serafino for this discovery is awarded in Stockholm, and he has to go by train from Rome to receive the honor.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòMarilyn BuferdBianca Maria FusariA parody of author Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 'Tarzan of the Apes', starting Italian comedian Toto as Tarzan.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòAldo FabriziChristine KaufmannA boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoDorian GrayTwo clumsy provincial uncles visit a metropolis to stop the relationship between their nephew and a woman of ill repute.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsTotòLianella CarellPasquale CennamoA portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsAldo FabriziTotòAve NinchiEsposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòWalter PidgeonNino TarantoIn WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
- DirectorAmleto PalermiStarsTotòLuigi PaveseFranco CoopThe noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòUghetto BertucciLiana BilliIn a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòSylva KoscinaUgo TognazziTwo men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
- DirectorFernando CerchioStarsTotòMario PetriMaria Grazia SpinaJosé is a Neapolitan petty thief who escapes from the guards and hides himself in a barrel of Jamaican rum on the quay of the port of Naples.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòCarlo CampaniniIsa BarzizzaIn 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsTotòAnna CarenaAlberto SordiAn aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaCarlo NinchiYoung swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòMaria FrauFulvia FrancoAfter several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsNino TarantoTotòVanda OsirisIn the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsFred BuscaglionePaolo PanelliScilla GabelLieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsTotòAlda ManginiLia AmandaBeniamino and his family have lived in a school since the end of World War II, but five years have passed and they are compelled to move, but finding an apartment in Rome is difficult. First he gets a job as keeper of a graveyard but during the night they mistake Checchino for a ghost and flee. Then they try lo live in the Coliseum. Lastly they find a fine, large apartment, only to find out that the same apartment has been rented to other people.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòAve NinchiMarisa MerliniAunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
- DirectorStenoMario MonicelliStarsTotòLea PadovaniFranca FaldiniScaparro, who works in a fabric store, must deal with irritating clients, and when he comes home he finds an unsatisfied, intrusive wife.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsToni UcciVittorio CongiaAlicia BrandetThe film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsTotòVera CarmiEnrico GloriThe explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
- DirectorFernando CerchioStarsTotòMagali NoëlFranco SportelliMark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòMike BongiornoDorian GrayThe Duke Gagliardo della Forcoletta, penniless and expert in horse-races, finds out he has a daughter, Emma Marini, who works in the bar Aurora. The Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o Raddoppia," a TV quiz transmission, in order to win the five million lira necessary to buy the bar, and he becomes famous. Gangsters Nick Molise and Joe Taccola bet between themselves on his success and the Duke is kidnapped.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoFranco InterlenghiAntonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòRaimondo VianelloNadia SandersThe Marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them except Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore--illegitimate son of his father--and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòGianna Maria CanaleCarla CalòMobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTotòGiovanna RalliArmando CalvoAn Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoJohnny DorelliA psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòFranca MarziAldo GiuffrèFelice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
- DirectorOttavio AlessiPaolo HeuschStarsTotòPietro De VicoMischa AuerA pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.
- DirectorAntonio MusuStarsTotòPablito CalvoMemmo CarotenutoMarcellino becomes an orphan and finds two uncles--a good old eccentric man and a villain.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsUgo TognazziVirna LisiTotòA petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
- DirectorTuri VasileAntonio MargheritiStarsRossella ComoScilla GabelPaolo FerrariBaron 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 triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
- DirectorGero ZambutoStarsTotòErzsi PaálFranco CoopIn his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòLuisa FeridaCalisto BertramoA baron is obliged to marry his cousin within two days in order for him to get an inheritance. If he doesn't marry, the inheritance will go to an animal clinic.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòAbbe LaneMario CarotenutoWhen swindler La Spada and his accomplice José are released from jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of Goya's "Maya in Camison" (Maya in a nightgown). They engage the renowned Scorcelletti who lives in Rome and can forge any artwork. Afterwards, with help from the beautiful Eva, they convince celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existence of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are at the point of selling the fake to an American millionaire, Scorcelli returns from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòNino TarantoErminio MacarioIn 1630 Italy, widower Pasquale loses his job as a cobbler, so to get food for his 12 children, he and a poor companion disguise themselves as mendicant monks and knock for help at the castle of beautiful widowed Marquise Fiorenza, who begs them to prevent an unwelcome wedding to the sinister Don Egidio.
- DirectorAldo FabriziStarsTotòLea PadovaniPeppino De FilippoRocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòOrson WellesViviane RomancePaolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
- DirectorAldo FabriziGiorgio PastinaMario SoldatiStarsTuri PandolfiniNatale CirinoAntonio Nicotra1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for - casting spells. 4) The discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsTotòGino CerviIrene GalterA wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoNadia GrayAntonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return, Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many years after the war ends, Antonio returns, and Amalia must choose between two husbands.
- DirectorFernando CerchioStarsTotòNino TarantoSamson BurkeTotokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun.
- DirectorJosé Antonio de la LomaStarsTotòNieves NavarroJorge RigaudToto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriA motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòNino TarantoErminio MacarioThe story takes inspiration from a real case: Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926. A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband. At one point he is brought to court accused of being a thief named Mr. LoBianco. Finally all of his identities are found to be false for different reasons, and he decides that from now on, it's just him and his dog.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsTotòVera MolnarNyta DoverA barber compelled by jealousy to commit murder spends 20 years in jail. But when he's released he cannot adapt to a changed world and the hypocrisy of his relatives, so he decides to return to prison.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaAve NinchiTwo widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsTotòAnna Maria FerreroGianni CavalieriDuring a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsTotòSilvana PampaniniAdriana BenettiThe story is set in a small town near Naples in early 1900. Baron Antonio Peletti is a stingy, cruel man who lives in a luxurious house, but only spends the bare minimum on the needs of his son and future daughter-in-law.
- DirectorMarcello MarchesiVittorio MetzStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaCarlo CampaniniTotò is a tailor, just not a great one. He is married and his son is to be baptized, and Totò hopes that his grandmother will be moved by the baptism to help him financially. Unfortunately the wet-nurse Maria loses the baby in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart; he "borrows" Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are waiting for him.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsTotòFernandelNino BesozziAssola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsCiccio IngrassiaFranco FranchiGino CerviTwo jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.