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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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7 and 8 (2007)
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
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Catherine and I (1980)
Plot Summary:
Enrico has a troubled relationship with his wife, daughter and lover. For this reason he decide to download all of them and to dedicate himself to peace. In fact he has been attracted by the waiter-robot of a friend, and so Enrico asks him to sell it. The robot is called Catherine (Caterina) and serves Enrico to perfection, but he ends up falling in love with him, and so it equally happens to Catherine, who becomes infatuated with his master. Howeve, the different nature of the two prevents the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
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The Barber of Rio (1996)
Plot Summary:
Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
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Mutande Pazze (1992)
Plot Summary:
Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business. The translation of the Italian title is "Mad Underpants".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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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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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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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
Plot Summary:
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
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It's a Hard Life (1964)
Plot Summary:
Licenziato dai padroni della miniera presso cui lavora come responsabile dei servizi culturali, Luciano Bianchi decide di vendicarsi, anche per scuotere l'opinione pubblica sulla morte di alcuni minatori avvenuta in una grave sciagura sul lavoro. Raggiunge perciò Milano, con l'intento di far saltare con la dinamite la sede centrale della miniera. In città conosce Anna, giovane corrispondente di un giornale di sinistra, della quale s'innamora. Per poter sopravvivere nella metropoli, senza lavoro, Luciano si arrangia a fare il traduttore per una casa editrice; ma, dopo un pò, trova la sua ispirazione nel produrre e realizzare spot pubblicitari. Questo lavoro, che egli disprezza, farà venir fuori tutta la sua genialità e gli consentirà, addirittura, di ottenere un'ottimo lavoro presso la stessa società che lo aveva licenziato. La vendetta sembra ormai dimenticata e con essa la moglie ed il figlio lasciati in provincia. Vorrebbe costruire una vita "tranquilla" con Anna, ma l'amore.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
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Roma bene (1971)
Plot Summary:
Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings. When they're missing, she's angry enough to call in the cops (Manfredi shows up) and have the baron taken away.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
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The Boom (1963)
Plot Summary:
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950's rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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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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A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
Plot Summary:
A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexy
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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
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I'm Photogenic (1980)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
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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
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, parody, anthology, crying, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco
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The Lady Medic (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Soldier with Great Maneuvers (1978)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy
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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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The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
Plot Summary:
This Italian political satire from filmmaker Lina Wertmuller will be most enjoyable for those well-grounded in Italian politics. Covering the late March through April general elections of 1994 in which right-wing conservatives routed the incumbent leftists. This is particularly upsetting for Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism. Fearing that his party is about to lose, he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. Their debate is fiery as is his growing and impossible-to-disguise passion for her. She too is intrigued with him, but their disparate ideologies threaten to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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W La Foca (1982)
Plot Summary:
Andrea, a nice girl, move from Veneto (north of Italy) to Roma. She is employed as a nurse in a medical practice. She soon is involved in a never-ending game of misunderstanding, couples exchange, sexual seductions.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, double entendre, sex comedy
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The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
Plot Summary:
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Secret Fantasy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, italian comedy
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, epic, crying
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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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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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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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A Chinese in a Coma (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tale about a talent agent with a talentless client roster. Ercole Preziosi (Verdone) represents middling girl groups, bad magicians, and even worse comics. When a grizzly traffic accident leaves his star comedian client bed-ridden, he turns to his young plucky driver to do stand-up duty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, not serious
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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