Birthday:
06-28-1919
Deathday:
05-08-1989 (69 years)
Birthplace:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography
Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) was an Italian screenwriter.
Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as The Easy Life, Brutti sporchi e cattivi, or Adua e le compagne.
He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Profumo di donna.
He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's La famiglia; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for La famiglia, Scola's Passione d'amore and A Special Day, and Antonio Pietrangeli's Io la conoscevo bene.
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Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as The Easy Life, Brutti sporchi e cattivi, or Adua e le compagne.
He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Profumo di donna.
He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's La famiglia; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for La famiglia, Scola's Passione d'amore and A Special Day, and Antonio Pietrangeli's Io la conoscevo bene.
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Anyone Can Play
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 3.9
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In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
Donatella
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 5.4
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Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Scent of a Woman
Characters
event1992 star_border 7.8
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Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
The Family
Story
event1987 star_border 7.5
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"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
The Overtaxed
Story
event1959 star_border 7.1
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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.
Adua and Her Friends
Screenplay
event1960 star_border 7.3
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When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
The New Monsters
Screenplay
event1977 star_border 6.9
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A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 6.4
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A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
Made in Italy
Story
event1965 star_border 6
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A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Thrilling
Screenplay
event1965 star_border 5.5
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An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
I See Naked
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 6.4
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Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
La campana di San Giusto
Director
event1954
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The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
The Monsters
Dialogue
event1963 star_border 7.4
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The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
È arrivato l'accordatore
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 5.5
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Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
One Million Dollars
Story
event1964 star_border 6
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Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs as does the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro, her former boyfriend is following and plans to hi-jack the loot, leaving Jane empty handed.
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 4.9
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Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
It Happened at the Police Station
Dialogue
event1954 star_border 6.5
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Everyday 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.
Mi permette babbo!
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 6.6
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While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Stardust
Story
event1973 star_border 6.7
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The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
Let's Talk About Women
Screenplay
event1964 star_border 6.2
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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.
Beauties in Capri
Screenplay
event1951
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The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Il gaucho
Story
event1964 star_border 6.7
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An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
White Sister
Screenplay
event1972 star_border 6.3
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A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.
La moglie è uguale per tutti
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6.7
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Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
High Infidelity
Screenplay
event1964 star_border 5.3
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Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
How Funny Can Sex Be?
Screenplay
event1973 star_border 5.8
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How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
The Prophet
Story
event1968 star_border 5.6
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In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.
Baby Doll
Screenplay
event1968 star_border 7.1
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A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
The Head of the Family
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 6.7
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A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
Il giovane normale
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 5.3
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Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) 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.
The Devil in Love
Screenplay
event1966 star_border 5.6
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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.
Il successo
Screenplay
event1963 star_border 6.3
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Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
The Priest's Wife
Screenplay
event1970 star_border 6.1
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After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.
The Career of a Chambermaid
Screenplay
event1976 star_border 4.9
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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.
The Magnificent Cuckold
Dialogue
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Screenplay
event1976 star_border 6.7
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An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
The Policeman on Horseback
Story
event1961 star_border 5.8
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A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
Ghosts of Rome
Screenplay
event1961 star_border 7.2
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An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
Lonely Hearts
Writer
event1970 star_border 5.9
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The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
La famiglia Passaguai
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 6.6
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When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 6
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To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Rome-Paris-Rome
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 5.8
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Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
Traffic Jam
Screenplay
event1979 star_border 6.8
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A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
March's Child
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 4
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Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner.
Vendetta... sarda
Story
event1952 star_border 5.5
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A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
My Heart Sings
Story
event1951 star_border 5
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Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
Il Sorpasso
Story
event1962 star_border 8.2
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Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Prepotenti più di prima
Story
event1959 star_border 6
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Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Non perdiamo la testa
Screenplay
event1959 star_border 5.2
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A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
I prepotenti
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 7
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Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
The Lucky Five
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 7.2
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Four 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?
Siamo tutti inquilini
Story
event1953 star_border 6
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Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Complexes
Screenplay
event1965 star_border 7
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In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Good night… lawyer!
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6.4
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A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
The Bachelor
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6.4
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Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 6.2
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This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the 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 at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
The Girl from Parma
Screenplay
event1963 star_border 7.5
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Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
A Special Day
Screenplay
event1977 star_border 8.1
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Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
I piaceri dello scapolo
Story
event1960 star_border 7
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Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Screenplay
event1978 star_border 5.8
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In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
Un militare e mezzo
Screenplay
event1960 star_border 7
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Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
I Knew Her Well
Story
event1965 star_border 7.4
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A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Il tallone di Achille
Writer
event1952
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Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
The Superwitness
Story
event1971 star_border 5.6
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A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict...
Shack and puppets
Screenplay
event1954
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An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men.
Husbands in the City
Story
event1957 star_border 6
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In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
Orders are Orders
Screenplay
event1972 star_border 6
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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.
Il padrone del vapore
Screenplay
event1951
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A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters.
Scent of a Woman
Screenplay
event1974 star_border 7.5
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An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
Screenplay
event1971 star_border 5.4
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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.
Poverty and Nobility
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 8
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Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Police Chief Pepe
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 5.8
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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 lesbian 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.
Il lumacone
Writer
event1974 star_border 5.5
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A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together.
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 7.6
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Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
È arrivato il Cavaliere
Screenplay
event1950 star_border 5
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A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
Cops and Robbers
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 7.5
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Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
The Dream of Zorro
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 6
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An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Fermi tutti... arrivo io!
Story
event1953
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A private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.
Le Bal
Writer
event1983 star_border 7
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The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (depending on the age).
The Visitor
Story
event1963 star_border 7.4
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Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.
First Love
Screenplay
event1978 star_border 5.6
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Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
I due compari
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 6
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Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.
Neapolitan Turk
Adaptation
event1953 star_border 7.3
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Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Funniest Show on Earth
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 6.2
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A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Il medico dei pazzi
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 7.1
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Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Totò cerca pace
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 6.2
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Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
Position Wanted
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 8.2
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Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to 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 leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Il conte Max
Screenplay
event1957 star_border 7.1
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Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.
I cuori infranti
Story
event1963 star_border 6
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Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
Finalmente libero
Writer
event1953
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Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
I pappagalli
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 5.4
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Sunday 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.
Saremo felici
Writer
event1989
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Ensemble comedy about four friends in their 40s.
Passion of Love
Screenplay
event1981 star_border 6.8
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In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.
Macaroni
Screenplay
event1985 star_border 6.2
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A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
Portrait of a Nude Woman
Screenplay
event1981 star_border 5.7
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Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. She's had enough of his moods, so they separate so he can sort out his mind. His first night away, he sees a photograph of a nude; the image resembles his wife. He searches for the model, whose name is Riri. He finds her, and she looks exactly like his wife, except that Riri is a gaily attired prostitute and Laura is a self-contained antiquarian bookseller. Are they two women, are they one, and in the masquerade of Carnival, what is real?
Three Forbidden Stories
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 6.5
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While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
The Queens
Screenplay
event1966 star_border 5.4
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Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
Porca miseria!
Screenplay
event1951
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Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
La nipote Sabella
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event1958 star_border 6.7
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Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
The Surprises of Love
Story
event1959 star_border 5.8
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This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
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event1976 star_border 7.6
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Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.
Love and Larceny
Screenplay
event1960 star_border 7.2
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Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
I, Hamlet
Story
event1952
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The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
L'amore nasce a Roma
Writer
event1958
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Lello, a painter, and Mario, a singer, move to Rome looking for fortune and success.
Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno
Writer
event1954
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A poor farmer is invited to the King's court and tries to prevent the princess' marriage to a villanious knight.
Pleased To See You Again
Writer
event1976 star_border 5
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Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local family linked to politics but also the church dealing in real estate business and welfare. Aldara may be pleased to see there Viviana again. Viviana is the widow of the dead man and used to be Aldara's girlfriend twenty years before
It Was I
Writer
event1973 star_border 5
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A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
March on Rome
Screenplay
event1962 star_border 7.4
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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
Le pillole di Ercole
Screenplay
event1960
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A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
They Stole a Tram
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 6.1
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Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.
Dad Becomes Mom
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 6.4
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The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Il marito
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 6.3
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Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.
It Happened in the Penitentiary
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 5.9
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A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
The Dollars Are Coming!
Screenplay
event1957 star_border 6.8
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A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
A Dog’s Life
Screenplay
event1950 star_border 6.7
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Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.
Dirty Weekend
Writer
event1973 star_border 5.3
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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.
Roaring Years
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event1962 star_border 6.8
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In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
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