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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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Sing Sing (1983)
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Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
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La Bomba (1999)
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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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Department Store (1986)
Plot Summary:
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 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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Yuppies (1986)
Plot Summary:
Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo e Sandro sono 4 giovani yuppies rampanti nella "Milano da bere" degli anni '80, che vivono nel mito dell'Avvocato Gianni Agnelli e di Silvio Berlusconi; il loro unico scopo nella vita è apparire anziché essere. Giacomo è un pubblicitario, Lorenzo è un notaio, Sandro è un dentista, e Willy è un venditore di automobili.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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The Comics 2 (1991)
Plot Summary:
A few funny little novels about different aspects of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick 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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I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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Give Me Five (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Fracchia Vs. Dracula (1985)
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Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house within three days, or otherwise his boss will fire him. Mister Filini comes to him, but he asks the impossible, a house with at least five bathrooms for a few thousand dollars. Incredibly, they find a house, a castle in Transylvania which happens to be own by a count Vlad... Filini doesn't want to buy the castle without seeing it first, so the two of them travel to Transylvania, where they meet the count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him! Meanwhile, the sister of a vampire hunter who was killed by Dracula is seeking to revenge her brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, vampire comedy, horror spoof
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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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The Two Cops (1984)
Plot Summary:
Episodic comedy drama about two recruits who join Italy's carabinieri, become friends and work together on several cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
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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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Taste of Life (1988)
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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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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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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
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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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My Friends: How It All Began (2011)
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
Plot tags:
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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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Fantozzi Strikse Back (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Fantozzi Against the Wind (1980)
Plot Summary:
Fantozzi contro tutti is an Italian comedy film, released in 1980. It is the third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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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
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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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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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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 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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The Jokes (2004)
Plot Summary:
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) in early 2000.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi 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
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An Italian Name (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, entertaining
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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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