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Plot Summary:
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
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Some Say No (2011)
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Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own war on the system. Each of them is a person of talent who has been pushed out by "favorites" or raccomandati, people who have muscled in on the promotions they ought to have gotten by pulling strings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Serafino (1968)
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Serafino a young and innocent shepherd inherits a huge fortune. He immediately spends the entire sum in presents for his friends. For this reason he is believed mad, and his uncle decides to legally forbid him to take any decision about his fortune. Serafino liaison with his cousin drive him few steps to marry. Tired of this entire situation Serafino finally decides to come back to the mountains by his sheep.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Mad Sea (1963)
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A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 119 min
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Italian Gigolò (2022)
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Filippo is the hottest male escort around. Incredibly sexy, he makes up in looks for what he lacks in wits. When an accident causes him to undergo transformative plastic surgery, he wakes up to find himself in a new body, with a new face and a new kind of beauty. As demand plummets, Filippo gets more and more desperate, till he finally resorts to asking for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
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The Big Fox (1988)
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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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Viva l'Italia (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: social, satirical, not serious, political comedy
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D.N.A.: Decisamente non adatti (2020)
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DNA--Definitely Not Suitable is the result when two primary-school friends who meet again as adults decide to improve their lives by swapping genetic codes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
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Anche se volesse lavorare, che faccio? (1972)
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Italian comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Nineties (1992)
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Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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Anni 90 - Part II (1993)
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Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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Countersex (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of sex themed stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All My Friends Part 2 (Italian: Amici miei Atto II) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is the sequel to Amici miei of 1975. The movie features Paolo Stoppa in one of his last roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article All My Friends Part 2, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
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The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, hot
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All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
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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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Surprise Trip (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
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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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Bodyguards - Guardie del corpo (2000)
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Two former carabinieri find themselves doing the bodyguards to VIPs and starlet.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
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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
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Poor but Rich (2016)
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The "Tucci" are a poor Italian family living in a small village in Lazio. Father, mother, a conceited daughter and a genius son, forced to pretend being stupid to keep up with the family. One day something unexpected happens: the family wins one hundred million Euros. Excited, they decide to keep the winning a secret, but as soon as a single word slips out from the mouth of the householder, they only have one choice to avoid being persecuted by friends and acquaintances: run away. They leave at night, heading to Milan. They will realize as soon as they arrive that today's rich people behaves very differently from the past, and being rich has become a real bother... this discovery will make things way different from what Tuccis' expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, witty, talky, colorful, colourful, italian comedy
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Weddings and Other Disasters (2010)
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Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)
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A teacher (Saverio) and a schoolkeeper (Mario) get lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to play cards, they try to stop Columbus, they sing beatles's song etc.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, buddy comedy, atmospheric, humorous, semi serious
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My Friends (1975)
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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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Lightning Strike (2012)
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Colpi di Fulmine is a film that deals with the theme of love at first sight. In the first part a psychiatrist (Christian De Sica) ends up in the cross-hair of the revenue authorities. He is innocent, but He is afraid to go to jail before he could make his point, so he disguises himself as a priest and takes refuge in a small village in Trentino, where he pretends to be the new pastor of the small community. Although fasting for religious practices, thanks to its experience can empathize with the parishioners. The situation becomes complicated when he falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman (Luisa Ranieri). For both it is a shameful love: for her because she believes him to be a true priest, for him because he knows he's a fake priest. These are the premise for a series of comic situations that will lead to a surprise ending. The second part of the film takes place in Rome, starring the Italian Ambassador to the Holy See (Greg). The diplomat, as he wants his role, is polished in speech and has impeccable manners. But, by the law of retaliation, falls for a fishmonger (Anna Foglietta) who speaks only in Roman and adopts the coarse modes of a commoner. She hates the formalisms, so, to get to its height, the ambassador decides to become a real boor with the help of your driver (Lillo). The staging is always running on the edge. The ambassador and his driver will have to jump through hoops to resolve the impossible situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy
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Three Men and a Leg (1997)
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Three friends leave Milan by car heading south. Two of them are married to two sisters, the third one is going to marry the third sister. The marriage is going to take place in the villa of their vulgar but very rich father in law. They are also bringing him a work of modern art: a wooden leg worth millions even if it doesn't look like it.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, fast paced, parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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White Collar Blues (1975)
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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)
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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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Qualunquemente (2011)
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Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, sexy, political
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Love & Slaps (2010)
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A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved that the love affair of their teenage daughter Rose with another boy, Luke, is over, prepare to meet their daughter's new boyfriend. The problem is that the two adults, who still feel pretty young, do not know what to expect, and what they are about to discover will leave them speechless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, talky, not serious
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Ciao, Professore! (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational, sexy, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic
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Time for Loving (1983)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious