Luigi Uzzo

After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.

El Papa de Roma planea una reunión para reconciliarse con el jefe de la Iglesia Ortodoxa de Ucrania, algo deseado durante generaciones. Pero, inesperadamente, ocurre un hecho que pone en peligro tan importante cita: mientras el Papa se dirige a miles de peregrinos, una monja es asesinada por un ucraniano. El jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense asigna la resolución del caso a uno de sus hombres. El joven empieza por investigar la Russicum, un centro de estudios rusos situado en la ciudad del Vaticano. Se ve entonces envuelto en una compleja intriga de carácter internacional.

In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual.

Dos episodios. En la primera, "Il pelo della disgrazia", ​​la vida del Sr. Altomare está constantemente amenazada por su vecino, que en opinión de Altomare es una mala suerte. Altomare está obsesionado con él y pasará su tiempo buscando una manera de neutralizar su mala suerte ... En el segundo, "Il Mago", Gaspare AKAS Le Grand Gaspar, es un mago inepto. Su vida cambiará cuando se encuentre con una bruja de 318 años que le otorga poderes mágicos. Confiado en esta nueva situación, Gapsare desafía al mago italiano más famoso, pero ...

A young fisherman from Pozzuoli, Gino Esposito, is in love with the sixteen-year-old Laura who reciprocates him with passion; but her family is opposed to the idyll and even goes so wildly to beat the young man. The two pigeons, however, on the advice of the common friend Tito, flee to Venice but are immediately resumed; she is brought back home, he in prison for a minor rat. Laura marries Tito to save Gino from prison. So they spend about ten years, the two lovers meet again by chance in the record store that he has opened and they discover they still love each other. Gino remained a widower with a lively little boy, Duccio; Laura has a daughter Lisa, whom her father Titus adores. The marriage without love of Laura, after the meeting with Gino, goes into crisis. Tito is jealous of his wife who now hates him; so to take revenge on his rival he decided to have a bomb put in Gino's shop.

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home two years earlier, as, in order to help the family, she did not hesitate to give herself to the boss Peppino Ascalone, with whom she is now forced to live together.

A la academia de carabinnieris llegan reclutas en los momentos que hay un fraude a nivel nacional y deciden formar una escuadrilla por medio de computadoras para que escojan los reclutas más idóneos. La escuadrilla termina siendo formada por los más inexpertos e ineptos policías que nos llevan a situaciones cómicamente absurdas, pero de una hilaridad sin precedentes.

Tres episodios; En el primero, Luna acaba de hacer realidad su sueño de convertirse en cantante y está dispuesta a seducir a Ciclamino, su inocente ángel de la guarda. En el segundo, el agente de policía Carmeo Petralia está enamorado de Concetta, pero se encuentra con un rival que parece ser gay. En el tercero, Lino se compromete a vender su alma al diablo para no ser desalojado de la casa, aunque el diablo vuelve para llevarse algo mas.

Una provocativa enfermera llega a una clínica psiquiátrica para militares, y suscita inmediatamente la atención de todos los pacientes y del dueño de la clínica. Aunque en verdad la enfermera resulta ser otra cosa...

Don Salvatore Savastano, a boss involved in the smuggling of contraband cigarettes, is forced to watch four masked robbers kill his wife and his only son in a restaurant where he and his family are celebrating the young boy's first Holy Communion. From that moment on Don Salvatore has no other purpose in life but to get his revenge on the four assassins.

En una capilla medieval romana, una orquesta se prepara para ensayar. Los acompaña un equipo de Televisión. El director es un alemán que insulta a los músicos y los trata mal. Después de un descanso, éstos se rebelan contra él.

Gennareniello, a crazy inventor, is married to Concettina and lives at home with his son Tommasino, full of tics, his spinster sister and with Matteo, a drawing master who makes plans for his inventions. Driven by his friends, the man courts the young teacher Anna and when his wife notices it, he is forced to run away from home, overwhelmed by the scorn of derision of friends and acquaintances who come to disguise him as a dandy, thus offending his dignity.

Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.

Película dividida en varios episodios que constituyen una sátira política de la Italia de los años setenta. Como telón de fondo el día a día de un canal de televisión.

Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor siciliano Leonardo Sciascia. Mientras Italia se ve asolada por una terrible epidemia, los máximos líderes del partido gobernante se reúnen en un apartado convento para decidir un nuevo reparto del poder. Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni), el cura que dirige el retiro espiritual, con la intención de acercarlos a Dios, se muestra dispuesto a tratarlos con mano dura para conseguir que expíen sus pecados. Un amanerado presidente (Gian Maria Volonté) trata de mantener su liderazgo mientras que privadamente se tortura con dudas y temores perversos. La situación se complica cuando los políticos comienzan a ser asesinados.

Un perro extraviado, propiedad de un cantante lírico, deambula por el barrio romano de Trastevere y observa lo que sucede a su alrededor: un ex policía adicto a las drogas, un viudo que siente melancolía por una prostituta, un triángulo amoroso...

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way

Denuncia de las condiciones laborales en las fábricas a través de la historia de un obrero modelo que, a raíz de un accidente, se hace sindicalista.

Tras un peligroso accidente, Benedetto es trasladado a una clínica donde debe ser sometido a una operación de urgencia. Durante la larga y complicada intervención Benedetto comienza a recordar su vida desde que era un pequeño huérfano encomendado a la tutela de su tía, una pueblerina de no muy limpias costumbres. Una salvación milagrosa el día de su primera comunión condiciona la existencia del protagonista que vivirá obsesionado por la búsqueda de Dios, hasta que conoce a un farmacéutico libre pensador que le ofrece la mano de su hija.