Eros Pagni
Nascimento : 1939-08-29, La Spezia, Italy
Augusto
Simone Recchia é um financista desajeitado e incorruptível que se apaixona por Claudia, uma jovem restauradora que é forçada a viver com os cheques de aposentadoria de sua avó Brigit enquanto espera ser paga pelo Estado por um trabalho realizado. Quando Brigit morre de repente, Claudia, ajudada por suas amigas Rossana e Margie, planeja uma fraude para continuar recebendo a pensão e evitar a falência.
Fabrizio
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
Adunchi
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Don Bruno
Redde
Ugo and Francesca have been married for ten years, but mutually decide to break up in a graceful way. They start singles' life again, having to deal with their children, their jobs and social relationships alone. They even both start seeing someone else, until jealousy arises. Perhaps their love is not over yet...
Professor Mangiacane
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.
Conte Zio
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, includine the Plague.
Duilio
Uma noite em um restaurante italiano. Recepcionados pela tolerante e tranquila Flora, vários tipos de pessoas de classe média - grandes e pequenos, jovens e velhos, fregueses e turistas, casados e solteiros - chegam para jantar, conversar, discutir, comemorar, fazer confissões, ouvir as discussões de outras pessoas, interrompê-las, cantar, ouvir música e aproveitar a vida. A câmera, assim como as pessoas, se move constantemente de mesa em mesa, na cozinha e na sala de trás para observar os pequenos ciúmes e frustrações da equipe - até que duas horas depois é hora de todos irem embora para casa.
Otello
Gerolamo Andante
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
Oscar Benvegnù
Rambo Sandri
Corrado
Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.
Nabucco
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
After a 22 years wedding, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually it seems so, but is the lover for real?
Galli
il colonnello italiano
Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!
Il dottore
During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
barista
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school.
Commissioner Franchetti
A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
L'automobilista
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
Commissario Pertinace
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...
Commissario Antonelli
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for interrogation to Sergeant Pendicò and special agents Lorusso and Spasiani, Stefano dies, after four days, in unclear circumstances. Doubting the official version of the police, the second time in which a young person died in custody, journalist Cristina Visconti tries, with the aid of the sister of Stefano, to discover the truth. They rub up against a conspiracy of silence that encircles the acts of Pendicò and his associates. Frustrated beyond reason, Cristina tries a desperate ploy: publishing a story without evidence in the newspaper, accusing the three agents of having caused the death of Stefano with their blows. Cristina is put on trial for defamation. Can she avoid going to jail and also reveal the facts surrounding Stefano's death?
Capoccio da Roma
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is travelling through Europe with his partners looking for fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore first bides his time to determine which side is the winning one (and thus more likely to pay his fee). This is as first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Supt. Calcabrini
Um pianista inglês testemunha um brutal assassinato, mas não consegue identificar o criminoso. Algo na cena o inquieta, o levando à uma compulsiva necessidade de desvendar o caso.
un giornalista di sinistra conoscente dei Pavone Lanzetti
Um magnata da indústria farmacêutica, Anthony Leighton (Bruce Greenwood), é casado com a bela e arrogante Amber (Madonna). Tony alugou um barco para, junto com a mulher e amigos, fazerem um cruzeiro da Grécia à Itália, porém nada faz Amber feliz, com ela implicando com Giuseppe Esposito (Adriano Giannini), um pescador que trabalha no navio. Um dia Amber descobre que seu marido e convidados pegaram um bote para fazer um passeio nas cavernas das ilhas. Ela fica irritada e ordena que Peppe desça outro bote, apesar dele avisá-la que não é boa hora, por causa das correntes. O temor de Peppe logo se concretiza, pois o motor do bote quebra. Para piorar ele e Amber brigam por um sinalizador e acabam dando um tiro, que fura o bote. Eles conseguem chegar a uma ilha deserta. As diferenças sociais que existiam no início do cruzeiro acabaram totalmente, mas algo totalmente imprevisível está para acontecer com Giuseppe e Amber.
Ufficiale italiano in Grecia
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
Thief
A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
Giacinto Spatoletti
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. There he falls in love with one of the whores.
Soldier
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.