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Plot Summary:
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Big Fox (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Anche se volesse lavorare, che faccio? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Italian comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Sorbole... che romagnola! (1977)
Plot Summary:
Due to a mistake by the travel agency she works for, a young woman finds herself deeply in debt and stranded in a tourist resort full of incredibly stuck-up travelers. As these tourists all insist they are all incredibly thin attractive people despite evidence to the contrary, she decides to open up a boutique in which she strives to transform them into beautiful people.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Football Crazy (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity because and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way--especially the women--now.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
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Confidence Reigns (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bourgeoisie of Mulhouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Anni ruggenti (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, suspect him to be the inspector and a very important member of the Party. The misunderstanding leads to a number of equivocals until Omero reveals his identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Cafe Express (1980)
Plot Summary:
An Italian laborer (Nino Manfredi) foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples train.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, culinary, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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An Italian Miracle (1994)
Plot Summary:
A film in 8 episodes. A government MP from An spends a wild night of passion with a parliamenatrian from the Refoundation party; Maria Carla lets herself be go during the screening of "Dances with Wolves"; Rosalia has just got married, but the same night in a night club, she is tempted by a soap opera star ; an accountant pretends to be ill just to get in good with a well meaning nurse; a family discovers that their daughter's fiancé is a transexual; a TV compere pretends to be friends with Kevin Kostner to win over a journalist who is mad for the actor; two friends exchange wild erotic tales with each other; a husband leaves his wife in the Seychelles in the arms of a "masseuse" and does not realise that it is actually a man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Let's Have a Riot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Episodes centering on different aspects of early 1970s Italian life:set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Taste of Life (1988)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
Plot Summary:
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
Plot Summary:
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meets a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Plot Summary:
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Merry Christmas (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Sins of a Nearly Decent Girl (1975)
Plot Summary:
A very enthusiastic girl kills her boyfriend, a carabinieri, after a long love session. She will suffer during the rest of the film to hide the body.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
Plot Summary:
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, surreal, independent film
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class (1975)
Plot Summary:
Hababam Sinifi is basically a movie based on the novel by Rifat Ilgaz, telling the story about a class of lazy high school pranksters. The movie just presents the most entertaining moments of high school years; which we have all been there once, and feel deep down a nostalgia for the days when life was fun and we were teenagers, going only after fun and entertainment. Cheating in Literature exams, smoking in the mens room, playing hookey from school for a football game; those were the best days of our lives. While the movie is brilliantly and incredibly funny; it contains some heart breaking emotional moments as well.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, student film
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Great! (1986)
Plot Summary:
Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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But Forever in My Mind (1999)
Plot Summary:
Silvio (Silvio Muccino, the director's younger brother) has no interest in the student rebellion taking place at his high school. His fascination lies with Valentina (Giulia Carmignani), the prettiest girl in the school. However, Valentina already has a jealous boyfriend, Martino (Simone Pagani). After Silvio finally has a moment alone with Valentina (where they share a kiss), he makes the mistake of telling his gossipy best friend, Ponzi (Giuseppe Sanfelice). By the end of the day the entire school knows about the kiss, including a very angry Martino.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, crying
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My Friends (1975)
Plot Summary:
Like in many other Monicelli movies, the main theme of Amici miei is friendship, seen from a rather bitter point of view. It tells the story of four middle-aged friends in Florence who organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: light, cult classic, hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, italian comedy
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The New Monsters (1977)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
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The Night Before the Exams Today (2007)
Plot Summary:
Reunites the same cast, reprising their characters from the 2006 original film, but transplants them from the 1980s to the Italy of 2006. This leap allows the filmmaker to compare and contrast youth culture across generations, from the era of the call box to the era of cell phones, text messages and onli.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy
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The 1000-Euro Generation (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, humorous
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White Collar Blues (1975)
Plot Summary:
Based on Paolo Villaggio's books "Fantozzi" and "Il secondo, tragico Fantozzi", which are popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year, shown in a variety of sketches, segments and provocative sequences making Fantozzi a very unlucky person indeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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Women Vs Men (2011)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sweet, light, romantic, feel good, realistic
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Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)
Plot Summary:
Legendary director Sergio Martino takes the helm for this sexploitation classic concerning the scandal that erupts when the panicked head of a high-profile cheese production company hires a beautiful prostitute to seduce an unsuspecting Cabinet member. Edwige Fenech and Pippo Franco star in a bawdy comedy classic that's as sexy as it is hilarious.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexploitation film, hot, decamerotic
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Made in Italy (2020)
Plot Summary:
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sincere, romantic, atmospheric, touching, entertaining, manga, hentai
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It’s the Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining