Best Italian Ensemble Movies of Fifties
List of the Best Italian Ensemble Movies produced in Italy from 1950 to 1959
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- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsEduardo De FilippoLeda GloriaDelia ScalaA combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis, then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens are Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo), who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto). The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in: a corpse used to conceal contraband; serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time; a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsAldo FabriziGina LollobrigidaDelia ScalaTragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.
- DirectorCarlo CampogallianiStarsSilvana PampaniniDelia ScalaFranca MarziTwo chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
- DirectorGiorgio PastinaStarsElsa MerliniGino CerviGiulietta MasinaHousemaid Maria has been engaged to Berto for 15 years. Berto doesn't have a steady job so he's waiting for his Uncle Matteo's death, when he will come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife, then for an actor and his wife on the verge of divorce, and last for Rafael, who wants to marry her. At last Uncle Matteo dies.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsEduardo De FilippoAldo FabriziTitina De FilippoFour poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsSilvana PampaniniCarlo DapportoAve NinchiA singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsPeppino De FilippoTitina De FilippoEduardo De FilippoOreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsAldo FabriziAnna Maria FerreroEnrico ViarisioAnna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
- DirectorStenoStarsPeppino De FilippoSilvana PampaniniAlberto SordiA day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
- DirectorGiorgio SimonelliStarsNino TarantoAlberto SordiWalter ChiariEveryday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsAldo FabriziAlberto SordiMara BerniA prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
- 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.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsWalter ChiariAldo FabriziPeppino De FilippoRoberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
- DirectorBruno PaolinelliStarsAldo FabriziAlberto SordiMaria FioreSunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.
- DirectorStenoStarsAlberto SordiFranca ValeriSergio RaimondiPolish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsAntonio CifarielloFranco FabriziGiovanna RalliAlvaro is been in jail, so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello, and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They only need a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
- DirectorDino RisiStarsSophia LorenFranca ValeriVittorio De SicaAgnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
- 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.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsAlberto SordiPeppino De FilippoAldo FabriziThis is the (funny) story of four Roma traffic police agents in the 1950s. Their lives are crossed in affairs that often go beyond mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe, an aspiring composer, wants to write an anthem for the Roman traffic police. 'Guardia' (agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too-strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking after his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is engaged to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they attract.
- DirectorAntonio RacioppiStarsVittorio De SicaGiovanna RalliMarisa MerliniHoliday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end. Among the hotel guests Carletto, who wants to go to Rome and become an actor and when summer ends and holidays are over we find that Carletto has not renounced his dream: he boards a coach and leaves Corniolo ready for adventure in the big city.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsAlberto SordiNino TarantoIsa MirandaA widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance. She poses as the lawyer who wrote the will and lets the real lawyer pass for herself. This way she will be able to discover the five men's vices and faults.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsMarisa AllasioMaurizio ArenaRenato SalvatoriRomulus and Salvatore are two Roman boys, engaged respectively with Anna Maria and Marisa, the first sister of Salvatore and the second of Romulus.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsMarisa AllasioMaurizio ArenaRenato SalvatoriRomolo and Salvatore are two young men who are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriA motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsVittorio GassmanRenato SalvatoriClaudia CardinaleThe usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsAlberto SordiVittorio De SicaMario RivaA television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio De SicaMarcello MastroianniMarisa MerliniFrancesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
- DirectorDino RisiStarsPeppino De FilippoSylva KoscinaRenato SalvatoriRaffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsNino TarantoRenato SalvatoriMemmo CarotenutoIn Rome every year in August the wifes go on holiday on the seashore while their husbands stay at home to work. It is the period of the year most suitable to male unfaithfulness. Without their wives they look for amorous adventures. Mario, freshly married to Romana, falls deeply in love with Lionella and all his friends, Alberto, Fernando and Giacinto try to enjoy this time when they are single.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsSylva KoscinaRenato SalvatoriDorian GrayFederico, 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. Troubles for everyone.
- 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.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsAlberto SordiMichèle MorganMarcello MastroianniIt is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVittorio GassmanSylva KoscinaUgo TognazziThe well-known financier Pierluigi Bruscatelli is arrested after having paid two fraudsters with a bill of 100 000 lire.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsPeppino De FilippoTitina De FilippoVittorio De SicaIn 1806 Naples, King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is frowned upon by the people, especially the comic theatrical Pulcinella, who continually delivers hard sermons, earning a reputation among the Neapolitans.
- 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.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsVittorio De SicaAntonio CifarielloSilvia PinalNicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.