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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 Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
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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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Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
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In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
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It's a Hard Life (1964)
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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)
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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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We Want the Colonels (1973)
Plot Summary:
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political
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The Oldest Profession (1967)
Plot Summary:
A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) "The Prehistoric Era": A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face. And she can earn more seashells that way. 2) "Roman Nights": The Emperor goes out seeking a little nocturnal amusement, only to find that the high-priced, Oriental courtesan he hires is his wife, the Empress. 3) "Mademoiselle Mimi": In revolutionary France, Mimi finds that her client, the nephew of a marquis, is more interested in watching the guillotinings out her window than he is in going to bed. 4) "The Gay Nineties": When Nini discovers by accident that her antiquated customer is a banker, she pretends to be an honest woman who has fallen in love with him. She even pays him, just like a gigolo! 5) "Paris Today": Two girls pick up clients by driving around in a car.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 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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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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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Plot Summary:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. ….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political
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While There's War There's Hope (1974)
Plot Summary:
Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never enough for his family, their needs increase more than the available earnings. For Pietro to sell weapons is becoming every day more stressful, every day more filthy. It has become normal for him to sell stuff to crazy corrupted bloodthirsty African dictators. He has also to fight competition with a French rival. His dirty activity explodes on national press; he becomes a monster for the public opinion. Pietro's family is hypocritically upset with him too! May be it was better the old bathroom equipment sector. Can he come back on his steps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, italian comedy
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The Couples (1970)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes. The refrigerator. A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their familiar balance sheet. To earn some money they decide to go for prostitution. The wife is not so unhappy to the perspective. The room. To celebrate ten years of marriage a couple decides to spend a quick holiday in top luxury hotels in Sardegna. But the fashion luxury VIP world is too hard to enter; they soon will end in prison. The Lion. Two adulterous, Antonio and Giulia, are blocked by a lion, staying on the exit in the place they met. They both have to come back home, but couldn't move because of the lion presence. The critic situation soon drive them to their limit peak, showing their real essence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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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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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Plot Summary:
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn't still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
Plot Summary:
The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom cuckoldry is a common practice, is seduced by one of them. At this point doubts and suspicions, like conscience, begin to plague him. If he could succumb to extramarital confections, why not his gorgeous mate? Quickly his love for his spouse degenerates beyond obsessive, into the realm of maniacal. He becomes madly concerned that his wife is cheating on him --even though she is not being unfaithful. When he looks at her it becomes obvious to him that she is a very attractive woman. And, all the men around her must be dying to be with her. Gnawed by jealously, he will imagine variations on nabbing her and her lover in flagrante delicto.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: black and white, sexy, hot
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Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
Plot Summary:
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, freeze frame
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses the thefts to make large and fraudulent insurance claims, refusing to finger the thief for fear his own financial improprieties might be exposed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Everybody in Jail (1984)
Plot Summary:
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Sensual Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, hot
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Batton Story (1976)
Plot Summary:
Femi is accused of being a prostitute and is thrown into jail with the rest of the clan. Their she befriends the prostitutes and decides to set up an organization for prostitutes' rights.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, sexploitation film
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The Body of the Stick (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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China Dolls (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him. The problem with this film is it becomes so sleazy. There is nudity (not Ms. Yip), violence and forcible rape.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
Plot Summary:
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, gothic, italian comedy
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We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Plot Summary:
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sad, touching, realistic, semi serious, italian comedy
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The Big Family (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: noir, poliziottesco
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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 Terrace (1980)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky, cynical, non-linear
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Roma (1972)
Plot Summary:
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, stylized, non-linear, visual, colorful, neorealism, visually appealing, cerebral, surreal
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, dark, disturbing, humorous, realistic, political, social, controversial, art house
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Scent of a Woman (1974)
Plot Summary:
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public. In Rome, Fausto summons a priest to ask for his blessing; in Naples, where Fausto joins a blind lieutenant for drinking and revelry, the two soldiers talk quietly and seriously about "going through with it." Also in Naples is Sara, in love with Fausto, but treated cruelly by him. What do the blind soldiers plan? Can Sara soften Fausto's hardened heart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, italian comedy