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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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John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet (1979)
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Also known as THE LONELY DESTINY OF JOHN TRAVOLTO, it's the first and only Travoltasploitation movie. It's about a hotel cook named Gianni who can't dance but is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ (Cicciolina) at the nightclub "John's Fever". When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
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Maid, Thief and Guard (1958)
Plot Summary:
Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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The Big Fox (1988)
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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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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Pierino the Pest to the Rescue (1982)
Plot Summary:
Pierino unleashes his restlessness with various mischief in school.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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A Difficult Year (2023)
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Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
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My Brother Has Come (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ovidio Ceciotti is a teacher, he is plump and he is not a man of character. He is treated badly by his school-master, by his students, by Lidia, his girl and even by his dog. One day his twin arrives. He calls himself Ralph Benson and has a completely different character. He is impudent, genial, he is popular with women, he is not plump, he spent six months in a jail. Even the dog likes him more than Ovidio. Ralph plays in a bar with the beautiful Esmeralda. They will have to live together. How long will it last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Judgment (1961)
Plot Summary:
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: italian 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
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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)
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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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Complexes (1965)
Plot Summary:
I complessi is a 1965 commedia all'italiana film compesed by three episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Soap and Water (1983)
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La madre-manager di una giovanissima modella americana cerca un precettore per la figlia che deve lavorare per tre mesi a Roma. Le viene suggerito il nome di padre Spinetti, un sacerdote che insegna in un istituto femminile, ma la telefonata per l'incarico la intercetta Rolando, bidello laureato in cerca di fortuna. Rolando si presenta alla donna vestito da prete e viene assunto, la ragazza però non tarda a rendersi conto che l'impacciato professore non è un vero sacerdote e se ne innamora. Una commedia comico-sentimentale con un irresistibile Carlo Verdone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
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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)
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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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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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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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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The Easy Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover. (Italian with English subtitles).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, funny, light, romantic, feel good, entertaining, serious, realistic
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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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The Big Score (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino is a shabby “investigator” who chases cats escaped from their homes. When Arturo and Yuri cross paths, Yuri is under the mistaken impression that Arturo is a consummate professional. He contracts Arturo to follow his ex-wife in order to find proof of her infidelity. But when he accidentally comes into the possession of a mysterious suitcase containing 1 million Euro, a series of hilarious troubles and daring adventures will result in an unpredictable finale….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)
Plot Summary:
Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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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