Pio Angeletti

June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .

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.

A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him back to her.

After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.

Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.

Story about a doctor in a Libyan military hospital who is mad, but no-one wants to declare him unfit, and he becomes the captain of a fighting unit. Through him the Germans risk losing a truce with the British, and therefore kill him and give him a hero's funeral.

Walter is a non-commissioned officer of the Navy, while Raf is a ship's cook. They become great friends but unfortunately they fall in love, without knowing it, with the same girl Sonia.

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and his sister begins to love him. He leaves Turin with his friend Parola and, in a Casino, he looses all money! But luck returns...

At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.

Mais de duas décadas depois de seu caso terminou, um homem casado é assombrado pela presença de sua ex-amante. Este thriller romântico elegantemente montado tem tudo a seu favor, exceto roteiro e direção. Mastroianni e Schneider estão excelentes; A fotografia de Tonino Delli Colli é apropriadamente sonhadora e atmosférica; Os temas assustadores de Riz Ortolani estão maravilhosamente interpretados por Benny Goodman; Mas a capacidade habitual de Dino Risi combinar a grande comédia com os incisivos comentários sociais não está presente. As descontroladas maquinações de enredo à moda antiga são só tolices e mais tolices, até que você só quer que tudo acabe.

Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.

Um jantar num terraço romano é uma oportunidade para conhecer um grupo de intelectuais da classe média que falam, discutem, e brigam também. A partir deste quadro se desenvolve a história com um roteirista curto de ideias, um jornalista incapaz de se renovar, um assessor da RAI propensos à depressão, um produtor de cinema vulgar e um deputado comunista um pouco duvidoso e adúltero. Um ano mais tarde, quando o tempo terá mudado o equilíbrio das coisas, eles se reencontram no mesmo lugar, talvez mais conscientes. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos) 2 versões de montagem: 150 min - Lançamento 154 min - na Finlândia

In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).

Ugo é um velho ator que se sente muito jovem para estar em uma "casa dos artistas". Ele simplesmente não pode suportar as regras dos outros velhos, então ele foge com uma menina.

15 anos após o monumental "Os Monstros", que foi um excelente exemplo de comédia de episódios italiano, 3 dos maiores eternos diretores italianos (Risi, Monicelli, Scola), os melhores escritores italianos de todos os tempos (Age, Scarpelli), os melhores atores italianos de sempre (Tognazzi Gassmann, Sordi), uma das mulheres mais bonitas do mundo (Ornella Muti) participam desse grande tributo. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos) O filme é dividido em 14 episódios: O Passarinho de Val Padana, Saudações dos Amigos, Tantum Ergo, Autostop, O Suspeito, Primeiros Socorros, Mamim e Mammon, Cidadão Exemplar, Pornodive, Sequestro de Amigo, Como Uma Rainha, Anfitriã!, Sem Palavras e Elogios Fúnebres. 4 Versões: 115 min - Itália 90 min - USA 100 min - Argentina 102 min - França

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

Três italianos, Gianni (Vittorio Gassman), Nicola (Stefano Satta Flores) e Antonio (Nino Manfredi) se tornam muito amigos durante o ano de 1944 enquanto combatem os nazistas. Cheio de ilusões, eles se estabelecem depois da guerra. Os três amigos idealistas precisam lidar com a inevitável desilusões da vida no pós-guerra da Itália.

Em uma viagem de uma semana, um cadete do exército acompanha Fausto, um irritado capitão cego, de Turim até Nápoles. Sem paciência para piedade, o capitão não aceita discordâncias e se comporta mal em público, sabendo apenas dar ordens. Em Nápoles, ele encontra um tenente cego com o qual conversa sobre seguir em frente.

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.

How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.

Rocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.

Comedy about a man who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.

Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?

Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a married American couple sightseeing in Italy. The husband is an older and worldly professor of archaeology while his wife is interested in exploring living things. The young hitchhiker is seduced by the beautiful wife, while her husband continues to gaze at ancient ruins.

A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.

Mais uma comédia italiana com episódios, típica dos anos 60. Mas dessa vez o tema é SEXO. Enquanto alguns dos segmentos não tem mais que 5 minutos de duração, outros parecem nunca terminar. Em todos eles a estrela é Nino Manfredi e apresentam pessoas obcecadas com sexo de uma forma ou de outra. Manfredi permanece relativamente calmo até o episódio final, a partir do qual o filme recebeu seu título.

A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.

A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.

Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.

Em plena Itália do Século 11, o cavaleiro Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman), uma espécie de Don Quixote maltrapilho, forma um exército de quatro miseráveis mortos de fome e parte em direção a um feudo a que julga ter direito. Durante o longo percurso pela Europa da Idade Média, no lombo de um pangaré chamado "Aquilante" (uma referência ao "Rocinante" de Don Quixote), ele vai se defrontar com a peste negra, bruxas e bárbaros de todas as espécies, numa sátira demolidora dos conceitos de honra e coragem sobre os heróis medievais.

Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.

An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.

Os mitos dos anos sessenta são satirizados em 20 episódios.

March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts

No verão de 1962, Bruno, um playboy quarentão, leva Roberto, um tímido estudante de direito, para uma viagem de dois dias pelas estradas de Roma e da Toscana. Neste período, vivem uma série de aventuras e desventuras, com um desfecho surpreendente.

Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.

The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.

During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.

Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.

Mr. 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.

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.

It 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.

Two young lovers, Tao and Valeria, decide to go and enjoy a beautiful holiday in privacy, away from the daily routine and their parents. After a journey full of adventures, aboard a sidecar, they find themselves in a campsite populated by Germans.

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he'll have to fight over Elsa's affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community.

The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.

1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is completely crazy for everything that comes from the States. He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever), to wear like he thinks Americans do, to walk like John Wayne, trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup... His life is a complete parody of the real American way of life, which he couldn't ever get.

Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.

Irene Girard é a esposa de um embaixador e gosta de viver no luxo. Após a morte dramática de seu filho, ela sente-se culpada de tê-lo negligenciado e se sente compelida a ajudar as pessoas em necessidade que cruzam seu caminho. Um dia, ela oferece abrigo a um homem que está fugindo da justiça, e ela mesma acaba sendo presa. O marido, por uma questão de decoro social, providencia para um médico declará-la louca. Irene se livra de uma prisão para entrar em outra, e para refletir sobre o tipo de sociedade que ela vive.

The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.