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Plot Summary:
The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Maddalena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carrying a huge mortadella sausage which she intends as a gift for her fiancé. But Customs do not allow processed meat to enter the U.S., so she is held at JFK airport.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Joker's Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A jealous mobster chases a screenwriter, who likes his friend, from New York to the Caribbean.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Libera (1993)
Plot Summary:
This high-energy three part comedy has a strong undercurrent of melancholy, as it shows three different women coping with difficult situations which are usually sexual in origin, even if the moment of romance is long past. In the first tale, Aurora has gotten used to a cozy, wealthy life, but begins to see her world destroyed when her husband is caught in bed with his secretary. Later, he flees the country to avoid getting arrested for something else he has done. Carmela is just welcoming her wayward son back to their slum home after he has spent a stint in "reform" school. Not only has he just confessed to her that he's gay, but he has become a heroin addict.Finally, Libera works at a newsstand outside of Naples as the sole breadwinner for her family. She is tired of her husband lounging in their house when he is not out tomcatting around with prostitutes, and decides to do something about it. So she secretly has him filmed in bed, and is marketing the tapes at her newsstand.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Miss Right (1985)
Plot Summary:
William Tepper, whose only significant credit to date was the lead role in the Jack Nicholson-directed 1972 cult film (#Drive, He Said), wrote and stars in Miss Right. He plays Terry Bartell, a U.P.I. reporter stationed in Rome. Bartell is an inveterate ladies man who suddenly decides he's through playing meaningless romantic games and wants to find "Miss Right." As a prelude to beginning the search, he sets up a series of "farewell" dinners with his three current girlfriends, scheduled in his apartment in two hour intervals. Most of the film consists of these lengthy encounters, including one with veteran Italian actress Virna Lisi, playing an older married woman. Karen Black is another of the ladies, who arrives by jet for a midnight rendezvous and is unpleasantly surprised.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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Swingin' Swappers (1973)
Plot Summary:
German softcore sex comedy about... well, spouse swapping, one would assume.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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La Bomba (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three young Italian actors move from Roma to NY to try to improve their careers. While attending the Actor's Studio they set up as a joke an extortion, acting like real mafiosi do. After the first extortion succeed they decide to continue on that way. But the NY mafia realize what is happening and.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Amore vuol dir gelosia (1975)
Plot Summary:
A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Spaghetti a mezzanotte (1981)
Plot Summary:
Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise party for Savino's birthday, and that day things start to get complicated. First Savino kills accidentally the mafia killer in charge to kill Celeste; second his lover Elvira arrives to the party with the judge... not to mention the police and the mafia Don.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, surprise ending
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Two Marines and a General (1965)
Plot Summary:
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Lady of the Evening (1975)
Plot Summary:
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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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Vieni avanti cretino (1982)
Plot Summary:
Pasquale Baudaffi, amnistiato, esce dal carcere ed inizia a cercare un lavoro aiutato dal cugino Gaetano. Prima però va in una casa compiacente. Durante i giorni del carcere la casa non è più sede di appuntamenti ma è stata rilevata e affittata come studio dentistico. Pasquale si trova al centro di equivoci a non finire. Prova a fare il guardiacaccia ma non va bene lo stesso, prova a fare il cameriere di un bar: sbaglia subito le ordinazioni e viene licenziato. Negativa la sua prova da guardiano di un garage. L'ultimissima esperienza è in una società di Elettronica ma il suo inserimento nel meccanismo avveniristico scatena le più pazze complicazioni. L'incontro con un cagnolino smarrito gli permette di conoscere la padrona e scoprire così la donna della sua vita.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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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The Queens (1966)
Plot Summary:
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, italian comedy
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Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes, three funny couples and many great italians actors.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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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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Attenti a quei P2 (1982)
Plot Summary:
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 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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A Policewoman in New York (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, slapstick, slapstick 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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Evil Thoughts (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milano. He and his wonderful wife Francesca have an intense high social life. But Mario has a problem. He is obsessed by bad thoughts (cattivi pensieri); he is always concerned about his wife, thinking continuously to be betrayed by her. It is a nightmare, every time Mario sees Francesca talking to one of their friends immediately starts to see her and him in an hot affair. Jealousy and suspects increase and increase, till their life cross with a young man hidden inside their flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy
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The Priest's Wife (1970)
Plot Summary:
After discovering her boyfriend for the past four years is married, a distraught and depressed young woman turns to a Catholic priest for counseling -- and finds mutual attraction. Now the inseparable couple are thwarted by his holy vow of celibacy, and must rely on the Vatican for a solution to their dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Lady Football (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Italy in the early 1980s, a Brazilian football ace is afflicted by nostalgia for his country and for his beautiful girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Howl (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through a surrealist's psychedelic hotel, instigate a prison riot, escape from naked cannibals living in a tree and battle a wind-up midget dictator!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, art house, sex comedy, cult classic, experimental, erotic, weird
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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 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