Gianfranco Barra

To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

Giada and Riccardo are opposite. Giada takes her studies seriously. Riccardo simply wants to live the good life. A freak accident causes them to be attached by their forearms. How will they live together (Please somebody post a real overview)

Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.

In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.

복수 때문에 네 사람을 죽인 여인과 그녀를 심문하던 중 사랑에 빠져버린 남자의 안타까운 사랑을 그린 영화. 이탈리아에서 영어 교사로 일하고 있던 영국인 필리파는 마약 과용으로 죽은 남편의 사건을 경찰이 제대로 조사해주지 않자, 직접 복수하기 위해 마약상의 사무실에 폭탄을 설치한다. 그러나 네 명의 무고한 사람들만 죽이고 경찰에 체포되고 만다. 모든 삶의 희망을 잃었던 그녀는 심문 과정 중 통역으로 배치된 경찰관 필리포를 만나게 되고, 시간이 지날수록 둘은 서로에게 점점 마음이 끌리고 있음을 발견한다.

by joseph sargent

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.

호텔보이이자 피아노 연주로 생활하는 톰 리플리 (맷 데이먼). 어느날 대학 재킷을 빌려입고 피아노 연주 대역을 하다 선박 부호 그린리프의 제의를 받는다. 이태리에서 빈둥대는 아들 디키 그린리프 (주 드로)를 데려오면 천달러를 주겠다는 것. 디키가 좋아하는 재즈도 공부하면서 연구한 톰은 이태리로 가 디키를 만나는데 상류사회의 화려함과 디키의 연인 마지 (기네스 팰트로)에게도 호감을 느낀다. 그러나 계약기간은 점차 만료되어 가는데...

The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.

미래 운명에 대한 호기심이 많은 11살의 헤이스 코르배치는 장래 남편감을 점쳐보는데, 그 이름은 '데이먼 브래들리'. 세월은 흘러 헤이스는 드웨인이라는 의사와 데이트 중이며 데이먼 브래들리라는 운명적인 이름에 관해서는 희미한 기억이 남아있어 운명과 로맨틱한 사랑에 대한 관심은 버리지 못하고 있다. 그러던 중, 드웨인은 헤이스에게 청혼을 하고, 헤이스는 모두의 축복 속에 결혼을 준비한다. 어느날 웨딩드레스를 입어보던 헤이스는 드웨인의 친구로부터 결혼 축하 전화를 받게 되는데, 그의 이름이 놀랍게도 데이먼 브래들리. 놀란 헤이스는 드레스를 입은 채 운명의 데이먼을 찾아 떠난다. 그녀의 정신적인 지주인 케이트와 함께 베니스로. 그러나 불행히도 데이먼은 도착하자 마자 로마로 향해 떠나 버렸고, 로마에서 헤이스는 가게 주인 지오바니의 도움으로 데이먼의 소재를 알게 된다. 한편 케이트에게 반한 호색한 지오바니는 호텔까지 소개해주며 로마 관광을 약속한다. 운명의 순간 데이먼을 만나러 간 헤이스는 식당에서의 소란 때문에 데이먼의 뒷모습만을 보게 되고...

In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.

A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him.

June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.

When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost everything to a German countess while gambling.

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?

Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Sixties. A group of kids are in their last year of high school. Renato, a young student, is in love with the beautiful Manuela but she does not reciprocate her feelings. One day Renato, on the occasion of his parents' departure, decides to hold a party at his house to which he invites Manuela and two other companions, but a few days later he ends up being suspended from school after having peeked into the girls' gym. So the protagonist plans to leave for Sweden in search of easy conquests but on the train he meets a beautiful lady who intends to betray her husband. Renato is unaware that she is the wife of one of her professors and the situation gets complicated.

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.

Bud Spencer plays Banana Joe, a brawny yet friendly man who lives in a small rainforest village called Amantido with a huge number of his own children and regularly delivers bananas to a South American river port (hence his name). One day, the henchmen of a local gangster boss named Torsillo come ashore in Amantido to initiate the construction a banana processing plant. Of course, Joe (in typical direct-approach manner) evicts the goons, who promptly return to their boss. Torsillo finds out that Joe is trading bananas without a license and decides to exploit it. Upon his next delivery, Joe is apprehended by the police and given the choice of either acquiring a legal license or getting his boat taken away and himself arrested for illegal shipment. Joe travels to the nearest city, which to him is a new world, as he grew up in the rainforest.

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.

Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met Filippo (Saverio Marconi), a bumbling astronomer , and after a series of mishaps, they got married.

20세기 초기에 벌어졌던 이탈리아와 리비아 사이의 20년 전쟁이 이 영화의 소재이다. 이 영화는 실화이며 등장인물도 역사적 실존 인물의 실명을 그대로 활용하고 있다. 20세기 초, 당시 끊임없이 벌어졌던 강대국의 제국주의 전쟁은 아프리카에서도 예외가 아니었다. 영국은 이집트를, 프랑스는 튀니지아를, 스페인은 모로코를 점령했다. 그런데 이탈리아는 1910년부터 리비아를 침공하였으나 29년까지 교착상태에 빠진다. 그러자 무솔리니는 새 지후관 그라치아니를 파견한다. 한편 그의 상관 베드윈족의 지도자 요마르 무크타르로서 전직은 교사이며 적을 물리치는 것만이 평화로 가는 유일한 방법이라는 코란의 정신을 이어받아총을 들고 나선 탁원한 전술가이다. 이탈리아군에 의한 무자비한 양민학살이 지속되지만 무크타르는 사막전과 산악전에서 뛰어난 전술로 현대병기로 무장한 이탈리아군을 계속 패퇴시킨다. 평화라는 미명하에 작전상의 협상이 벌어지고 전쟁은 계속된다. 결국 이탈리아군은 리비아 사막 수백 마일에 4천 명의 인부를 동원해 수천 톤의 철조망 작업을 행하영 베드윈족 5천명을 강제 수용소에 수용하고 무크타르를 생포해 공개리에 교수형에 처함으로서 1931년 9월 16일 전쟁을 종결한다.

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house. The result is an endless series of gags and misunderstandings, due to the stratagems devised by Lorenzo to avoid that the situation becomes the subject of gossip by fellow citizens ...

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.

A police commissioner and a political activist join to investigate the suspicious death of a playboy Prince.

15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.

Don Vincenzo is a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...

When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a young baron and and even most of her male students. One of these, Andrea Balsamo is part of the family with whom Stefania is staying and as such has a stronger foothold than most of the other men in town

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he decides to go after her killers. During his investigation, he enters a world of intrigue and obfuscation that leave an endless trail of blood.

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.

A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. The baron, crippled and atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.

Italian comedy.

A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.

투닌은 무정부주의자인 친구가 파시스트 경찰에게 죽임을 당했다는 소식을 듣는다. 그는 친구가 완수하지 못한 임무를 끝내기로 하는데, 바로 무솔리니를 암살하는 것이다. 로마에 도착한 투닌은 우선 살로메의 매음굴을 찾아가는데, 무솔리니에 대한 원한으로 살로메는 투닌을 적극적으로 돕는다. 다른 매춘부 트리폴리나가 무솔리니의 측근인 경찰 스파톨레티의 혼을 빼놓는 사이, 투닌은 계획을 실행할 장소를 정찰한다. 그러는 사이 투닌과 트리폴리나 사이에 사랑이 싹튼다.

미국의 부호 웬델 암브러스터 2세는 이탈리아의 휴양지에서 밀월 여행 중 사망한 부친의 유해를 모시러 이탈리아로 간다. 그는 이스키아 섬까지 가는 동안 번번이 마주치는 파멜라가 거슬리지만, 하루 빨리 모든 운구 절차를 마치고 돌아가고 싶다. 그러나 웬델의 바람과는 반대로 계획은 삐걱대고, 뜻밖의 로맨스가 찾아온다.

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders

When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.

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?

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

과대망상증에 사로잡힌 킬러는 성공한 로마 경찰 간부이다. 그는 매저키스트 성향이 있는 정부 아우구스타 테르찌와 살인 유희를 즐기곤 했다. 이들의 살인 유희는 점점 정도가 심해져 결국 킬러는 관계 중 아우구스타를 죽이게 된다. 주도 면밀한 계획 하에 살인을 저지른 그는 자신에게 혐의가 돌아올수 있도록 증거를 무수히 남긴채 그 곳을 나선다. 하지만 자신의 높은 지위를 과신한 킬러는 그것만으로는 만족할 수 없었던 나머지 자신에게 불리한 정황 증거를 더 만들어 내고 겁에 질린 부하들과 증인들을 우롱하는데...

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